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The Northern Pacific farmer., 1882-03-30
PARKERs PRAIRIE.

Rufus Darling and wife, Of Oak
Valley, have returned home from q
visit to friends here.
Elder Reeves preached to large
congregation here to-day.
On the evening Of the 10th inst.
there was donation party given at
the Lake House for the benefit Of
Elder Inman. The company was not
very large, but what it lacked in
numbers was more than counterbal-
anced in generosity, as the net pro-
ceeds amounted in cash and supplies
to $50. Mr.. Lindall hitchcd up his
team and took part of the supplies
and $s45.55 in cash to Mr.. Inman at
his home. the next day after the do
nation. Mr.. Inman was highly
pleased, and said he had been in the
ministry ~ years and that this WAS
the largest donation he had ever re-
ceived.
Items are not very thick down this
way.
March 20-A hard snow storm from
the east has prevailed all day.
II. II. Hall is quite sick. F.
BY request
TowN OF INMAN, March l.. 1882.
We, the undersigned, take this
method to express our thanks and ac-
acknowledgements to our friends of
of Parkers Prairie and vicinity. for
their kindness and liberal contribu.
tions in our behalf, and may the
blessings Of Almighty God rest upon
each and every one of you is the
prayer Of T. +. 1SMAS,
4. NJ. INMAx.
| LATER
County Treasurer, G. \. Linauist.
arrived from Fergus Falls Monday
He will return in 4 day or two,
George Rider says Il young girl ar
rived ut his house on the Goth inst.
The same occurred at Paul Olson,
on same date.
Mr.. W. Huntly, formerly of thi.
town, but now of Mandan, D. r., ar
rived to-day. He comes to buy cattle
J. W. Motifs team ran away da,
or two ago. No damage.
Mr.. Cooper, of Wadena, is dow
buying all the fat cattle he can find
Sleighing is pretty good yet.
DR.. Tyler has sold his interest il
the Lake House to C. p. Smith. r.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1882-03-30
LEAF RIVER.

The m,lmps seem TO furnish amnSc-
ment for a portion OF several families
in our neighborhood. Mrs. Williams
Was confined to her bed q few days
last week with them.
n. $. Morical had the misfortune
to miss the stick of wood he struck
at. and letting the ax into his foot.
very nearly severing the toes from
the foot. It will make 4 cripple of
him for the rest OF the spring.
VIM. Coons arrived from Brown
county last week to settle i'll Leaf
River.
Several families are settling i'll
Northern Leaf River. The prospect
Of The road from Wadena to Shell
River is neutrality-suspicious. to the
northern portion Of Wadena co *nty.
! If there was passahle summer road
through those townships there would
be a heavy settlement between the
Red Eye and Shell Rivers.
The most Of our folks seem to be
ready to have the snow so off. Sugar
making will be the next order ct the
day. Extensive arrangements arc
being made already. Let the good
| work 90 on. SYKEs.
Our Celebrities.
, A Minnesota Judge was impeached
mainly on the ground that he was in
ithe habit of wrapping the mantle of
his couch aheut him and lying down
with his boots on. incidentally he
was said to be afflicted by attacks of
poker. The learned counsel who ul-
dertook the management of his case
made 4 speech of twenty-cight hours
and quarter inc his behalf. The
stenographer pronounces the speech
the longest in the criminal or politi.
cal annals of the country. lie man
aged to crowd in about a quarter OF u
million of words. The reporter does
not seem to have heard Of the inter-.
minable speech OF William N. Evarts
in the Beecher case. 4 speech which.
at last accounts. was st;lI supposed to
be going on. .:: 81 .-- -.-~.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28
HAVEN CONN., TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 2s 1889.
Tuesday Morning, March 28. 1882.
THE PARALLEL SCHEME.

i The friends of the Parallel railroad scheme
 have talked much about the insufficiency of
 the general railroad law as reason why the 1 special charter they ask for should be grant 1 ed. They have asserted that the law was passed in the interest of the Consolidated
 road, and that it's provisions are such that no
 railroad can well be built under it. One
 would think, indeed, from the talk of some of them, that so great is their eagerness to give the depressed and down-trodden people of Connecticut the new railroad which these people and their children are assumed to be crying for, that if the general railroad law had been what it should be the Legislature would not have been troubled by an applica- tion for special charter.
 If the Parallel promoters are really in earn est and should by any possibility fail to get special charter which would allow them to confer upon the people of this State and the rest of New England all the benefits they have planned, they will probably not be en- tirely debarred from exercising their noble philanthropy. For six members of the Railroad committee have agreed upon amendments to the general railroad law, which will make it comparatively easy to re- lieve this monopoly-cursed and devil fished State. These amendments, which are to be reported as soon as possible, will make UT general railroad law conform to that of Massachusetts. They extend the time for taking land from one to two years. They ex- tend the time for spending ten per cent. of the capital from one to two years They authorize any railroad company to bridge navigeble streams, with the approval of the Railroad Commissioners. They provide that the Railroad Commissioners, or an engineer employed by them, shall estimate the value of the work done upon road before bonds are issued. The old law provided that the President and chief engineer of the company should do the estimating. There are also one or two other minor changes.
 These changes remove the Instructions mentioned by General Kellogg in his argu- ment as reasons why railroads cannot be built in Connecticut under the present law. These amendments have been agreed to in good faith by representatives of the Consoi- dated, the New York and New England and other roads in the State. It is rumored that the only reason why they have not been re- ported before is because of delays and objec- tions made by some of the Parallel members of the committee. We trust that the rumor is a false one, for if it is true it would seem that there is not quite so much "good faith'' in the Parallel road men as we have been re- peatedly told there is
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28
Price Four Cents.
MOREOVER.

The Congregational club was freshly stuff ed in Hartford. Tuesdsy.-Dqn6ury Neaos.
 Will Tennyson kindly write us poem on the charge of the gentleman who has money to loan ?-Elnira Free Press.
 'I dunno a heap bout poultry said old Uncle Pete when they were discussing the question of the day up at the market, 'ibut de sweetest chicken I'se ever est was drawn. It was drawn fru de vinder of chicken house in de dark of de moon. ."-Pr0sidezoe Press.
 When woman has beautifully uPholster- ed chair in her psrlor, which she keeps there merely for an ornament and doesn't want men to sit upon for fear they'll damage it, she has only to pin tidy on it to protect it. No man will, of his own free will, go near it. -B0st0H Post.
 A lady in town painted plaque in the most exquisite manner and expressed 1t to friend Seon after note of acknowledgment came in which the lady stated that ''it is altogether too nice to use every day, so only use it for bread plate when we have comPany."- Rochester Express.
 You can turn up your nose at the smell of these crowded emigrant cars rushing up into the northwest, but few years hence the boys and girls of these same new citizens will be coming back this way in palace cars, and pos sibly with knee brooches and 8 sunfoEer in their buttonholes. C7ieags Inter OoeaH.
 It is noted by men acquainted with Wash ington, past and present, that there is much less gambling among the statesmen of the present day than among those of former times. This is not because our modern statesmen are the most virtuous. The facih- ties for finding them out and publishing them to their constituents are better--CiE- ctnHdti Enquirer.
 A Mouse who was taking his evening ram- ble through great Forest, encountered @ Lion under Tree. and at once called out, Hi there-stand out of my path, or I will Demolish you T" But am not in the Path !" meekly replied the old Beast 'sThen ge. down ont of that Tres!'' ''Yss, but am not up the Tree" ''Who said you were. tsu you to get out of my sunshine or I'll break every bone in your body" Would it be impotence on my part to call your attention to the fact that the sur has been down for two hours?n replied the terror stricken Lion. Yes, it would, and impotence must be pun ished," !" roared the Mouse and he sailed in and pounded the King of Beasts until the forest was filled with lamentations Moral He that by the plough would thrive must sit around the corner grocery and talk politics. -Detroit Free Pres.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28
How He Made up for shrinkage.
 

An old but good story is told of Captain Fred Wording of this city. who forty years ago was in command of the schooner John The captain was carrying a cargo of corn from 8 pert in North Carolina to Savannah. He knew that it was the custom to measure out the corn and if the cargo fell short of the bill of lading the captain was responsible for the shrinkage. He also knew that in loading the darkies had stolen quantities of the corn, and he was afraid the cargo would run short. On the passage down the captain ran his ves- sel into the Gulf stream and allowed her to remain there for some time. The waters of the Gulf stream are from fifteen to twenty degrees warmer than the rest of the ocean, the temperature in some places being at eighty-two. The heat from the water swell ed the corn until the matches were nearly burst of. On arriving ths captain wanted the consignee to take the cargo at the invoice, but he refused The consignee told the cap tain that he would measure the cargo and share equally in the shortage or overplus Captain w. was somewhat surprised to re- ceive in addition to his freight money, $500 as his share of the overplus. The cargo in fact had gone S1 900 over the invoice. Cap tain W. did not keep the money, but turned it in to the owners
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28
- Negro Expectations.

A writer in the Louisville rier-JosrTsaI gives some of the current superstitions of Kentucky negroes. If a person passes through funeral procession he will die be- fore the oldest one in it. If dog lies on it's back and howls, it presages an early death in the family. If the longest snaks killed in days search be suspended from the tree nearest to parched field, it will bring rain. If it be necessary to turn back after starting on an errand, the consequent bad luck may be averted by making cross in the path with the left forefnger. A stutterer may be cured by creeping up behind hIm unA- wares and knocking him down with g raB beef tongue just taken from the beast by an unmarried butcher under 21. 4 bloody knife a bottle of alcohol and a bag of live lizards are an effective outfit for bewitching an enc my; but the intended victim Is often warned of the danger by an owls screech close to his cabin. The recipient of a poisonous snske's bite drinks pint of whisky, and then, if sober enough. kills the ssst black chicken with white tail feathers he can find. hicks the feathers out and burns them
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28

The new criminal code of New York, which goes into effect soon, makes the circulation of false intelligence, statement or rumor a misdemeanor, and also enacts that ia person who secretly loiters about building with in- tent to overhear discourse therein, and to re- peat or publish the same to vex or annoy or injure others, is guilty of misdemeanor. !" If this is enforced it will go hard with some of the Wall street gang
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28

The national educational association of su- perintendents and educators has been in session at Washington and went before the educational committee of Congress on Satur- day to urge the importance of immediate ac- tion by the government in behalf of common school education in the States. The plan is to appropriate a certain generous sum annu- ally ($15, 5,OO0,OOO is asked) to be divided among the States in proportion to illiteracy, but no State shall share which does no tspend at least one third from local taxation for the schools an amount equal at least to one-third the bounty of the government for that State.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28

A recent decision of London court will doubtless have some effect upon the custom which has long existed in the watch trade of lending watches to customers while their own are undergoing repairs. The handspring of 8 watch thus loaned was broken before it was returned. The tradesman naturally demand ed payment for the injury done, and refused to give up the repaired watch until his claim had been satisfied, whereupon he was sum- moned in the City of London Court. The Commissioner held that the watchmaker in such a case has no claim unless he can prove that the watch was wilfully damaged, which is obviously impossible.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28
BAKING

qualities cannot be surpassed product ng m ost del clous, light, sweet and wholesome Biscuits Cakes Pas try, Pudd1ngs, etc., which may be eaten while fresh without detriment.
 The high standard for purity and excellence which our preparations have always maintained and our Perience of over thirty years in the manufacture of Baking Powder for use in making Self Raising Flour warrants us in offering this Perfect Baking
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28

Piles to support a cofferdam across the river Lea at Hatfield Park, the seat of Lord Salisbury, have been successfully driven by power from a distant water-wheel transmit ted by. his dynsmo-electrical machines and two wires connected with the driver. The driver was an ordinary machine erected on barge floating in the river. Although roughly con- structed, the arrangement worked success fully. The ''dolly" weighed from 400 to 800 oounds
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28

The Mormon Elders who are travelling and preaching in the South report an unusual number of converts, and declare that the present agitation against polygamy is making their work easy.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28

A newsboy named Dart found the pocket book of Mrs. H. P. Pinney, of Rockville, in a car Saturday and returned it. It contained $14S.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28

But these Boston men will not do their busi- ness in that way. Not a dollar will be ad- vanoed on it's crops, not lien will lie on it's property" There will be cooperative ser vice, schools, churches and protection. The laborers will never know want" The plan seems to be to furnish the land, implements and supplies to colored laborers. receiving from them one hundred pounds of cotton or ten dollars an acre yearly, and the Picdyune estimates that full crop would give the company more than thirty per cent. on it's investment, and forty per cent. of g full crop, If the company received nothing for its supplies, and made a reduction of rent for the shortness of the crop, would still yield fourteen per cent.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The recent purchases of stock in the Bos- ton Ad0ertiser company have been made, it is said, on valuation of 1925, 900 for the whole property.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28
Purity and Strength Guaranteed.
 ASK YOUR GROCEREoR
H.ECKERS'

Perfect Baking Powder, purchased by him in the open market, says: q find Heckers Perfect Baking
 Powder to consist essentially of Cream of Tartar and
 Bicarbonate of Soda, or, other words to be pure Cream Tartar Baking Powder, free from alum, terra alba, ammonia or any injurious substance" 1t is
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28

Kate Shelley, to whom the Iowa Legisla- ture has just given gold medal and $200, is only fifteen years old. She lives near Des Moines, at point where railroad crosses a gorge at great height. One night there was 8 furious storm and the bridge was car ried away. The first that the Shelleys knew of it was when they saw the headlight of 8 locomotive flash down into the chasm. Kate climbed to the remnant of the bridge with great difficulty, using an improvised lantern, and the engineers voice answered her calls; but she could do nothing for him, and he was drowned Then she remembered that an express train was almost due, and she started for the nearest station a mile distant. A long, high bridge over the Des Moines river had to be crossed on the ties-an easy thing to do in calm daylight, but perilous in stormy darkness. Kate's light was blown out, and the wind was so violent that she could not stand. So she crawled across the bridge, from timber to timber, on her hands and knees. She got to the station bedrag gled and exhausted, but in time to give the warning, though she tainted immediately.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28

Lee Rock, Chinese laundryman in Hart ford, is still suffering from beating given him by some roughs week ago.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-28

It is reported that Boston company has bought several plantations, twelve thousand acres in all, in Chioot county, Arkansas, at a cost of $230,0O0, and has spent fifty thou sand dollars in implements and supplies and that the same company intends to buy twenty thousand acres more on the Louisiana side of the river. The plantations arc On high lands not affected by the overflow The New Orleans Picay'trse is much interested in the plans of the new company, regarding its operations as the beginning of new and bet ter system of agriculture for the South The planters now, it says, with scarcely any ex- captions are ''carried" by merchants in New Orleans, who advance them money on the next crop before their advances of the year
 before are settled by the sale of the last one.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1882-11-04
THE MINIS.
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Outline OF the Annual Report OF Mr..
Burcnard, Director Of the United
States Minis.
Mr.. Burchard, director Of the mint,
has completed his annual report, and it
will be submitted to the secretary of the
treasury at once. The statistical infor-
nation showing the movements of coin
and the monetary condition off the world
win be found to be very valuable and in
teresting. It appears that the coinage
has been, especially at the minis, lin the
smaller denominations, and it is found
that the absorption of gold coin into cir
culation has notably increased, while
that held by the treasury and the banks
has remained about stationary. This re-
suit is what the director predicted would
follow from the adoption of his policy Of
coming five and ten-dollar gold pieces
instead of double eagles. He maintained
that the people would take up and
hoard the gold if it was coined
in eagles and half eagles, while in the
larger denominations it would remain
in the vaults of the banks, and if there
should be demand for bullion abroad,
it would leave the country In bulk,
while, on the other hand, if it was held
in small sums by the people, there
would be some resistance to the speedy
drainage of the country of all its bullion.
Whether on account of small coins be-
ing struck or not, it appears that the
people have taken up the increased
amount of gold. 1t appears that the
law drafted by Director Burchard,
passed by congress last session, provid.
ed for the exchange Of stamped gold
bars for coin at the assay office, has
worked well and effected considerable
saving in the expense of coinage. I'm
der this law when it was desired to ship
gold the bullion was given to the ex-
porter in more desirable form for his
purpose, being in q form upon which the
weight and 1inenes5 were stamped. In
this way the cost Of coming the gold was
saved to the government, as well rs
being more convenient for the party
having the foreign coin to exchange.
The gold production of the mines APP
pears to have fallen off somewhat, while
the silver mines have put out more than
the year previous. The silver increase
was owing to the opening of new mines
in Arizona chiefly, and in portions Of
Colorado, while the reported
falling of at Leadville seems
to have been overestimated,
and was made up by the increased work.
ing of low-grade ores at the smelters'
Tho report covers two periods, calcula-
tons being made for the fiscal year end
ing June 50 last, and for the period end
ing October !. The statistics of paper
circulation, the variation of values Of
standard commercial articles, ara also
given. 1t is found that there has been q
steady increase in values. The price of
silver has remained about stationary,
and the government purchases have
been about the same as last year. The
imports of bullion fell off consi derably,
while for some months there was a
specie export.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1882-11-04
A Observation-Disclosures
A Movable Mountain of Pure Sand
Formed by Nevada Zephyrs.

A Movable Mountain of Pure Sand
Formed by Nevada Zephyrs.
From the Reno Gazette.
In the eastern part of Churchill coun-
ty, near Sand Springs Station, on the
road from Wadsworth to Grantsville, and
about sixty-fve miles from the former
place, is sand-dune, which is remark
able alike for its peculiar formation and
moving propensities. AS far around as
the eve can reach is vast wilderness OF
greasewood and stunted sagebrush with
here and there abrupt mountain ridges,
or a sharp, rocky peak, evidently placed
there long before the mythical persons
left their mysterious footprints in the
mud, now hardened for the annoyance
OF the State Prison inmates, and for no
other Apparent purpose than to deceive
the uIlaccustomed traveller as regards
their distance from any place he hap
pens to be located The dune, or sand
mountain ridge, which is about four
miles in length, and covers probably
mile Of grease wood in width, was per-
haps formed by the heavy winds which
prevail in that section, blowing across
these deserts throu "a natural opening
in small range of mountains and de-
posting the small particles of sand that
were picked up in heap where the
winds course is disturbed and al eddy
formed.
In the whole dune, which Is from 100
to 400 feet in height, and contains mill
lions of tons of sand, it is impossible to
find particle much larger than PIN.
head. 1t is so fine THAT if an ordinary
barley sack be filed and placed in
moving wagon, the jolting of the vehicle
would empty the sack, and yet it has no
form of dust in it and is as clean as any
sea-beach sand. The mountain isso solid
as to give it musical sound when trod
upon and oftentimes bird lighting on it
or a large lizard running across the bot
tom win start large quantity Of the
sand to sliding, which makes noise re-
sembling the vibration oftelegraph wires
with hard wind blowing, but 90 much
louder that it is often heard at distance
of six or seven miles and is deafening
to person standing within short dis
lance Of the sliding sand.
A peculiar feature of the dune is that
1t is not stationary, but rolls slowly east
ward, the wind gathering it up on the
west end and carrying it along the ridge
until it is again deposited at the eastern
end. Mr.. Monroe, the well known sur
veyor, having heard of the rambling
habits Of this mammoth sand heap, quite
Il number of years ago took careful bear
ings on it while sectionizing government
lands in that vicinity. Several years
later he visited the place and found
that the dune had moved something
over mile.