The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-31
Bishop Whalen declined to permit her
to accept the proffer.

to accept the profter.
Mr.. John Bright has been asked by
Manchester gentleman to define his po
sition in regard to war, and has made a
reply. He says that he believes that all
the English wars from the time of Will
Liam III. might have been avoided on
principles which do not require the alb
solute condemnation of war in every pos
sible case that can be suggested or mag
med. 'The policy and aspect of our
country and the World" he adds, twill
be changed if the demon war is left to
the cases in which there seems to Chris
tan and rational men no escape from
the miseries it inficts upon mankind"
George Francis Train, only a few days
ago, promised to keep still; but here he
is again: 'How can people live who eat
death? Is not meat, fish, game, eggs,
butter, milk dead? Entailed diseases of
all living things in creation, added to en-
tailed corruption of mankind, kills of
humanity at an average o! thirty-three
years. Corn, oats, wheat, barley, 5000
years old, taken from Egyptian mummy
in Thebes catacomb, will sprout to-day
and produce life to man. But will dead
pig? calf? sheep? oyster? egg? milk?
fish sprout if planted? Death in this
case only produces DEATH"
A correspondent writes of David Dud-
ley Field: "He owns some 500 acres
in Stockbridge, Mass, much of which
Improvements from desolating the quiet
old town. He bought $40, 900 the stock
of a new railroad company to keep the
road from coming there; bought fifty
acres around the rapids in the Housaton-
ic to keep a paper mill from going up
there; bought 800 acres around Ice Glen
to keep vandals from cutting off the
wood and destroying the grandeur Of
that famous frigid gorge, where / cut a
good clip of ice from the surface of the
cavern pool only yesterday. And he
bought mile square Of the swamp to
keep the cool retreat from being i'm
proved out ofsight."
Ex-senator Eugene Casserly, of Cali
fornia, although still vigorous in body
has completely lost his memory. He
was recently summoned in San Francisco
as witness to prove the forgery of a GER
tifcate of stock of a company of which
he was once president, and testified that
he did not recollect that there was ever
in existence any such corporation; that
he could not tell whether the sigma
ture purporting to be his as presi-
dent was his own or not, and that he
could not recollect that he had ever been
the president of such company.
Alexander Salvini, the second son Of
the italian tragedian, now in this ooun-
try, says of his fathers attempts to mas
ter the English language: HE has tried
many times, but has finally given up in
despair. When was at home a teacher
came to the house in Florence three
times week, but father made but little
progress. My sister was fair English
scholar, and she was constantly being
called on to assist the old gentleman with
his lessons. How is this?' he would saw,
the soldiers arr on foot? It is bad era n
mar; I should say the soldiers are on
feet 1t was useless to attempt an ex-
PLANTATION, and at (est he gave up in de-
spair.'
He was Willing to compromise.
Among the northern men who
went down to General McDowells
headquarters shortly before the bat
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was Mr.. Kennedy Marshall, of But
Ter, Penn, then a member of the Penn
sylvania, legislature, and one o! his
"reminiscences of the stampede and wild
flight to the north after the defeat relates
to the late Judge McGuffin, of Newcastle.
He had been one of the 'On to Rich
mond' crowd" says Mr.. Marshall, chad
come down to stiffen up the presidents
spine, and was loud in advocating a Wig
orous prosecution of the war. He was
large man and wore long linen dust
er. When the rush to the rear began
he ran with the rest. He was fat, and
as the crowd gradually swept past him
he at last began to think the rebels must
be almost within grasp of his flying
duster-tail.. Blind with sweat and dust
he tripped on a log and fell fiat on his
stomach, or as flat as he could fall, on
such round stomach. "A zouave. who
was hard at his heels, came down with
emphasis on the top Mr. :McGuffin was
certain that the Philistines were upon
him, and with a weak endeavor to roll
his eyes around, that he might see his
foenlan's face, exclaimed: Great God,
promised7'0