The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-11-23
Miscellaneous NeaNs Notes.

Winnipeg Free Press: Messrs. Langdon,
Sheppard & Co., at their Office in this city,
have commenced paying off their men who
have been employed in construction work
in the Canadian Pacific railroad, west.
About 600 men have been already paid
oil, and the payments average $4,000 per
day. Most Of the men are from Minneapo-
lis, and return thither as soon as they receive
their money.
The Illinois superintendent of insurance
has begun suits against nearly all the agen-
cies of foreign companies in Chicago for
violating the State law by not giving an an
nual account to him of their financial con-
ditioll. The insurance men are undergoing
quite flutter in consequence.
The latest returns to the house of repre-
sentatives show 1875 democrats, 1923 republic
cans, five readjusters and two independents,
or democratic majority Of sixty-ive over
all, which the democrats expect will be in
creased to sixty-seven.
Braastreet's Journal furnishes the follow
ing: There were 1877 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet during the past
week, 10 more tn n the preceding week and
81 more than the corresponding week last
year.
In St. Louis indictments have been found
by the United States grand jury against E.
E. Carpenter, William D. Russell and J. D.
Cameron, brought from Dakota. charged
with extensive land frauds.
A syndicate Of mill men at La Crosse,
Davenport, Moline and Rock Island, has
been organized. with 81 100000, to operate
in logs and lumber in the Wilds of Arkan-
saS.
The democrats will have majority OF
eleven on joint ballot in the Pennsylvania
Legislature.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley has began making
improvements on the Greeley swamp at
Chappaqua.
From Foreign Lands.
Queen Victoria accompanied by the crown
princess of Germany, the Princess Beatrice,
the duchess of Connaught and the duke OF
Cambridge. commander in-chief ofth army,
on Saturday reviewed 5000 of the troops
which took part in the Egyptian campaign,
including a small representative deputation
of the Indian contingent and a few men Of
Malta fencible artillery. The occasion was
celebrated at night by an illumination. 1t
excited extraordinary enthusiasm, it being
unprecedented since the close of the Cri-
mean war. At the review the queen presented
war medals to two representatives of each
regiment, The general presentation ofmed-
ais took place at Windsor Tuesday. Gen.
Wo]seley headed the procession, which
marhced through densely crowded streets.
London cable: The liquidation of the
unfortunate City of Glasgow bank in four
years has just been accomplished. 1t will
be remembered what fearful ruin and misery
the failure involved upon widely differing
vast debt has now been paid. and the re-
naming assets have been handed over to
company formed to receive them for the
benefit of the still solvent shareholders.
During the four years the liquidators have
paid off $55, 600, 600, of which nearly half
came out Of the private means of the share
holders.
Jennings cables the World that Lord
Randall Churchill the wasp Of Woo
stock is practically stepping into the
place of Sir Stafford Northcote at the head of
the conservative phalanx, his aggressive
style of warfare being much more to the
taste of the younger, and the more energetic
men in the ranks than Sir Staffords timid
and wavering policy.
President Grevy of the republic of France
is seriously ill, and his resignation will
probably be FASTENED by his indisposition if
he doesn't die. His case is quite critical,
and political circles are profoundly agitated
by the probabilities. Possibly he is feeling
the public pulse.
DR.. Tanse, who represented the American
Socialists at the Hague congress of Social
lists in 1881, has been sentenced to two years
imprisonment by the court at Rotterdam for
obtaining goods by fraudulent advertise
mcnts.
a prairie fire OH the Monaghan frontier of
Russia has covered space OF seventy square
miles, consuming many Cossack villages.