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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-05
SONG OF THE THRASHER
wheat al Starked-A Yield of is 10 go
Bushels per Acre. Mostly No L.

Wheat al Stacked-A Yield of is 10 20
Bushels per Acre Mostly No. 1.
BELLE PLANE, Sept. stacking all
COMPLETED. Considerable thrashing done.
Yield of wheat reported by farmers to be
from eighteen TO twenty bushels per acre,
mostly No. !. Corn corning finely.
Adrian Stacking done and thrashing
commenced in earnest. Weather good.
Brardon-Flax nearly all harvested but
little thrashing done yet. Weather fine.
Hartford Weather clear and cool.
Stacking most over and thrashing going
on fast. Some late flax to be cut yet. Corn
doing well.
Salem Weather continues favorable for
corn which Is doing well.
Valley Springs continues IA
vorable; thrashing progressing rapidly.
Manhato-SmaH grain nearly all stacked
and some thrashed wheat reported yield
ing from eighteen to twenty bushels and
Others heavy: corn doing very well.
LIE Mars-No frost yet; corn doing well;
thrashing going on; weather all that could
be desired.
Lake Crystal-Corn doing well; every
thrashing machine busy.
Garden City Weather clear and fine;
no change since last report; corn still do
ing fine.
Vernon Center-Weather clear and
pleasant; no change in crop report,
Amboy-Farmers busy thrashing; grain
turning out very good; corn doing well;
weather clear and fine.
Winnebago No change. Thrashing
rapidly. Weather clear and pleasant.
Blue Earth-No change since last re-
port Some wheat thrashing and being
marketed.
Elnore-No change in crops since last
report Farmers busy threshing. Clear
and fine.
ST. James-Crops mostly stacked il
good shape and very little thrashing done
Wheat yield. twenty bushels per acre; oats
about seventy. Corn is still doing well
and if frost holds off for q few weeks We
will have q good crop OF corn. Coco
yield of potatoes. Weather clear ant
warm.
ST. Thrashing progressing fine
grain turning OUT good; weather clear ane
me.
Beaver Greek Thrashing has become
general; grain n excellent condition; corr
Luverae-All kinds of grain harvested
and thra=hing well advanced and all kind
of grain yielding well and excellent sam
pies.
grains secured; corn maturing fast.
Henderson, Inrashing is progressing
finely. Corn Is doing well, and if fros
kee0s of there viii be a good crop
Weather clear and warm.
Eastern Division
Elroy- Harvesting all done in goo,
shape Thrashing is commenced Crol
some above the average.
Baldwin-Grain ali stacked aud most o
the farmers through thrashing.
Augusta-Some wheat coming into mar
eet. mostly No ., reported very smutty AM
damp. Wheat viii yield an average crop
Thrashing about half done. Corn dom;
well.
Fairchild No change in crops. Coo
weather Sunday and Saturday. Warme
to-day. No thrashing.
Hammond Harvest all done. Stacking
about done and thrashing begun. Report
that have come III are favorable. Ayerag
Fifteen to twenty.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-05
DHIufb Nplrs,

DILUTE, Mimi, Sept. Arrivals
Ontario, Sarnia, 400 tons merchandise and
seventy-fve passengers; City of Duluth,
Chicago, 100 tons merchandise and 100
tons pig iron; China, Buffalo, 200 tons
merchandise and seventy five passengers:
barge Wallace, Toledo, 1000 tons coal;
Hale, Buffalo, 500 tons coal; schooners
Garon. Toledo, 1000 tons coal; Brady,
Buffalo. 800 tons coal.
Wheat. unchanged.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-05
DRY Goods Market.

New YORK, Sept. Dry goods: The exceed
ingly oppressive temperature has prevailed to
such an extent as to interrupt the demand of
agents, which has been of moderate character
only, still there has been large movement, in
consequence Of previous engagements, and there
has been good volume of sales completed.
Prints and dress goods, of desirable styles, doicg
well, and such are not only in no supply, but
are largely sold to arrive. Underwear has been
in improved selections. Cotton goods in bett r
delivery than demand, and good jobbing trade
being done.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-05
FINANCIAL & COMMERCIAL.
ST.. PAUL, Sept. 5, 1882.
BOARD OF TRADE.

BOARD OF TRADE
Everything showed up weaker yesterday
Wheat was very dull, corn dull, oats weaker,
barley dropping and rye dull. The following
are the quotations:
Whaat-No l, hard, s1.05 bid; No. 2, $50
bid; No 2, 55c; No. 8, 75c
Corn-No. 2, Tic bid, 75c asked.
Oats-No 2, mixed, 33c asked; September,
30c bid 30 asked; No. 3, mixed, 32c asked; Nc.
2, white, SIC asked
Barley-No. 2, zoe bid; September, zoe bid,
75c asked; No. 3, extra, Coo bid; September, 60c
bid; No. 3, 55c bid; September, 55c
Rye-No. 9, 53c bid
Ground Feed-S27 bid, S2S asked.
Bailed Hay-S7.
Eggs-1714c.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-05

naturalness. The animal is a beautiful and
noble looking bay, with black points and
great intelligence. The tall form of the
General is erect and imposing, the features
very natural and life like, and the whole
picture very striking.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-05
Public Opinion of the Eorthpest.

Railroad officials who have made trips Of
observation from Chicago over their lines
into the Northwest and Southwest as near
ly all of them have, concur in glowing de-
scriptions of the crops, their fine quality
and good condition. There is not one un-
favorable report. The observations Of
these officials are usually reliable for bust
ness reasons, and their experience is so
great that subsequent developments usually
bear out of their predictions. Agreeing as
they Go with specials and press dispatches,
exceps as to q few isolated localities. the
significance and importance of their reports
become more striking and conclusive.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-05
NJ. DORAN'S REPORTS.

The following quotations giving the range to
the markets during the day were received by NJ.
DoRAN, Commission Merchant:
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 4, 10 a. m.-Spot wheat
quiet. Cargoes on passage and liberal arrivals
cause depression; Is lower. English country
markets cheaper. Weather in England improv-
ing: ON continent unsettled.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-05
Picture of Gen. sibley.

Yesterday afternoon picture, about six
feet by eight, representing Gen. Sibley on
horseback in military uniform, was taken
from the office of the gas company and re-
moved 10 the generals residence on Wood
ward avenue. The picture was painted by
Col. Fairman, who has caught the idea
both of the horse and the rider, and has
succeeded in reproducing both with great
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-05
Cincinnati whisky Market

CINCINNATI, Sept. 4.-Whisky steady; in good
demand: S1.1S. Combination sales of finished
goods 955 barrels. Basis 31.1S.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-05
WHEAT.
CHICAGO.
MILWAUKEE.
CORN.

Year wheat closed in Chicago at $3.50.
Year corn closed in Chicago at 5S14c.
Year cats closed in Chicago at 321lc.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-05
EVENING REPORT.
GOVERNMENT

Money 4@1O per cent, closing at per cent.
Prime mercantile paper per cent. Sterling ex-
change, bankers bills steady at 1851; dc. ex.
demand. S4891I
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-05
Boston Herald. |

stepped from the highest place in active
politics into the walks of private life with
out losing his temper on the way. Mr.
Blaine evidently has. There isn't sign
of regret or reproach in his speech or ac-
tons. He has no hard words for those men
who have stood between him and the presi-
dency. He seems to have settled down to
enjoy life and to do his duty by the party
that has honored him as he has honored it.
as it shall be asked of him.
The loss of the presidency soured Clay
as it did Seward, but Mr.. Blaine certainly
presents to friend and foe alike perfect
good humor and far more cheerful view
of the future than many public men who
have lost much less.
While talking with him tonight, almost
in the shadow of the state house, where he
began life in Augusta as a newspaper re-
porter, I couldn't help but wonder if
many people ever stopped TO think
how he started life, and what a
great structure he had built from a
small beginning. 1 remember going
through the state with him once when he
talked freely of his early life in Augusta.
Entering the little dingy senate chamber,
where the upper house of the Maine legis-
lature has met for very many years, he
pointed to an old-fashioned desk nearly in
front of the presiding officers seat, and
said:
There is where began newspaper life
reported the proceedings of the senate
for the Kennebec Journal several terms.
1t was great school for me. I used to
educate my memory in those days by
keeping the roll calls on one or more bills
in my mind, and not writing them out
until after I went home. 1 got so I could
remember as high as five separate votes on
different bills and then write them out
after they were given, SO as to agree with
the official list of the clerk of the senate
Here was the
SECRET OF MR. BLAINE's ABILITY,
so often remarked, to always have at hand
names of persons and vents he desired to
recall.
The hall of the house of representatives
was the next object OF interest, and there
above the clerks desk was the same old
chair in which Mr.. Blaine sat when he was
speaker, many years ago. He looked.over
fine room SO closely connected with his
grst step in public life, and where he
tathered the rudiments of parliamentary
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-07-06
THE AMERICAN WOOL CLIP.

The census returns gives one hundred
and fifty five million pounds as the
amount of wool clipped from thirty y-fve
million sheep in the United States in the
spring of 1880. This shows encouraging
progress since 1870, when the reported
clip was hundred million pounds from
twenty-eIght million sheep. Nearly a
fourth Of the entire production of 1880 is
returned from two states-namely, Ohio,
which is credited with twenty five mil.
lion pounds of wool aud three million
sheep, and California, which shows near.
ly seventeen million pounds of wool and
four million sheep. In 1870 the CHIP of
California was eleven IN iliion and that of
Ohio twenty million pounds. After
these two states come, in 1880, Michigan
with twelve, New York, nine; Pennsyl-
vania, eight; Missouri, seven, and Wis
consin seven mi lion pounds. The rapid
growth of sheep raising in Texas is
shown by the fact that the number of
sheep increased between 1870 and 1880
from seven bundled Thousand to nearly
two millions, and the amount of wool
shom from a million and quarter to
nearly seven MILL on pounds. The in
crease in the production of wool has also
been marked iu Michigan, Missouri,
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, but in New
York the reported clip of 1880 was more
hnr l.lf l.. l.
thau that of 1870, while the number Of
Sheep was hearly half million smaller
in 1880 than in 1870.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-07-06
She Loved Her Pets.

An aft citing story lately came under
the notice Of the French Society for the
Protection of Cruelty to Animals. A
Havauese beauty, living in the neigh
borhood of the Madeleine, till the other
day reioiced in the possession of two
charming little does, to which she was
passioustely attached. One night last
week her maid awoke her with the heart
rending news that Fernando, the pretti-
est, best beloved of the canine pair, was
dead. The affection of the fair Creole
for some hours was terrible to behold.
Next morning, her grief having some
what abated, she sent for furrier.
"Make me-" she said, ga muff with
the skin Of my poor, lost darling"
The furrier looked at Fernando for q
moment and remarked that be was afraid
the skin would not be large enough for
the purpose.
"Not large enough?" sighed the be-
reaved beauty. "Alasl Shall 1 then
have nothing to rembenber my pet by?
Well, then-if you're quite sure-take
the other, too" she murmnred, pointing
to the lamented darling's twin brother,
who was snugly coiled up on cushion,
asleep. "Take him, too. 1 think you
will have enough now"
They say that the sweet creature is to
have the gold medal Of the society next
year.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-07-06
COAL IN GREAT BRITAIN.

Mr.. Robert p. Porter writes to Chi
cago journal of visit to the principal
cities of the five great coal regions in
England and Wales. More than half
million of tie English population are
employed under the cIal miners regula-
ton act. The annual product exceeds
l35, 900, 900 tons, of value of $3.50, ,OOO,-
900. The coal field of South Wales is
the largest of the five, except that of the
Clyde basin. The amount of coal pro-
duced in this field is 100000 tons,
and, at this rate, the supply will last
1900 years. The North and South STAFF
fordshire coal fields yield over l4,OOO,-
900 tons. The Lancashire coal-bearing
tract produces $4,000, 200 tons, a third
more than ten years ago. In this dis
trict are the deepest mines in the British
sles, one SO6 yards and the other TT
yards. Notts, Derbyshire and Yorkshire
form another, and the largest field.
Nearly 10000, 900 tons were produced in
1880, while in the great northern district
of Durham and Northumberland 80, ,OOO,-
900 tons are produced. Of the 20,0OO,-
900 credited to Ireland and Scotland,
only l, 200, 900 tons come from Ireland. 1t
is estimated that 1876, 900, 900, 900 tons are
in reserve at depths not exceeding 1000
feet. If drawn upon at the present rate,
the supply will last thousand years.
Mr.. Porter says that his observations in
the coal regions confirm the remark of
an English writer, that England's rich
and refined civilization is built upon a
basis of Ignorance. pauperism and vice.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-07-06
ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

On August there will be initiated at
twelve circumpolar stations combined
international endeavor to hunt down
some Of the secrets of the north. Rus
sia, Sweden, Norway, Holland, Austria.
Denmark, Germany, England and the
United States will cooperate in main-
tanning for defined period certain
scientific colonies on the confines of the
poleward regions of the known world,
to pursue there all those studies which
it is believed will extend our knowledge
of the terrestrial and meteorological con-
ditions of that unexplored portion oil
the planet which stretches between the
United States station at Lady Franklin
Bay and the Russian station at the
mouth of the Lena River. This is q
notable kind of international enterprise,
says the New York Herald, and the con-
sideration that at certain designated
hours of specified days the high priests
of science from all the great nations OF
the world will give all their energies to
the Investigation of electrical phenom-
ena, as in the old days men gave their
thoughts to prayer, may indicate to the
minds eye the changed spirit in which
men contemplate their relation to the sn-
preme powers.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-07-06
GUITEAU HANGED.
President Garfield's Assassin
Legally Executed.
How the Vile Wretch Passed His Last
Hours on Earth.
Closing soenes at the scaffoId.--
Tho Fatal Drop.

WASHINGTON, June 30.-The last night
of Guiteau's life was not marked by
many features of special interest. Dur
ing the first half Of the night, or until |
o'clock this morning, Guiteau was
greatly disturbed by the insane cries of
a colored "crank" who had been con-
victed Of larceny and by mistake had
been sentenced to Jail instead of an
asylum. Her demoniacal yells rang
through the Jail, serving to keep Guiteau
awake nearly the entire night. He was
very restless and slept but little. Rev.
MIR. Hicks, his spiritual adviser, spent
an hour with him, remaining until mid
night. At that time he reported that
the prisoner had had no sleep and that
he was peevish and fretful. Alto
gether he had a poor night, for which
the crazy giT. il the west wing,
who persisted in Yelling at short
intervals, was in great degree RESPONSE
BILE. The night was delightfully."- cool,
the thermometer in the warden's office
marking 74..degrees. Nevertheless. with
the girls cries in his ears aud some tor
turing thoughts ON his mind, Guitean
could do nothing but walk the floor of
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-07-06
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE OIL REGION

1t is twenty-three years, says the Bos-
ton Advertise r, since the Pennsylvania
oil region first attracted the attention
and speculation of the country. The pro-
ject OF boring for oil was a subject of
jest till suddenly well, yielding four
hundred gallons day, was opened, and
then the Developments, fresh now in the
recollection of the nation, brought tide
OF emigrants to the region. The land
which had been worth but few dollars
per acre, all at once brought extravagant
prices. Single farms sold for from $780,
600 to 81 100000. One of the wells pro-
duced half million barrels of oil in one
year. From feverish speculation the
oil industry became a regular depart
ment OF commerce, and the oil region in
the northwestern part of Pennsylvania
has furnished probably three -fourths of
the petroleum found in the markets. A
few weeks ago a new field, richer than
any operated ina long time, was opened,
and the cry now is that too much oil is
pouring out of the ground. The fear is
expressed that for the time the industry
will be prostrated by the reduction in
price in consequence of the enormous
yield Of petroleum. Hundreds of people
are hurrying to the region, reminding
the inhabitants in that portion Of Penn
sylvania Of the days in 1859, when there
was a rush to the oil region as to new
gold-mining camp.
The new district is in Warren County.
Four wells have been drilled and are pro-
ducing large quantities of oil. The total
yield OF these wells is over-stated, possi-
bly,, but it is asserted that altogether
they are producing four thousand bar
rels day. One OF the wells has been
flowing since May 10th. and continues to
send forth daily eight hundred barrels.
The principal well was opened about ten
days ago, and the extraordinary yield
OF twelve hundred and fifty barrels in
nioeteen hours is announced as the first
outcome Of the undertaking. This sud-
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-07-06
Gathering Pineapples.

The average life of the "scarlet pine
is three years; that of the sugar-loaf is
about five. The average weight OF the
fruit in the Bahamas is from three to
three and half pounds. A field is gen.
orally gone over three times during the
season, affording three grades OF fruit
called first second and third cuttings.
The scarlet variety npens month or
two earlier than the sugar-loaf. Owing
to the short serrated leaves Of the plant,
the gathering of the fruit is tedious
and difficult matter, the men, women
and children engaged in the work being
obliged to wear heavy canvass leggings
and gloves with gauntlets to protect
themselves against the sharp spines of
the plant.
The pineapple plants furnish out one
regular crop during the year, although
the local markets are seldom without q
few pineapples on sale. About the mid
die Of April the first cuttings are made Of
the scarlet pines, and the last is made
about the LIST Of July. The sugar-loaf
pine is at maturity during July and
August. The shipping season is one OF
signal activity in the colony. for when
the fruit il ready for the knife il must be
cut and hurried with all speed TO market
or IL will be lost.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-07-06

den yield prepares the reader to believe
the statement that for lack of tankage
large quantities Of the oil are running to
waste, though tanks of q capacity Of
twelve hundred barrels each are being
erected. The wilderness is filed up
with people, and the surprising rapidity
with which houses and places of business
are prepared in mining towns is equalled
by the enterprise in this new oil region;
for it is presumed that the less prolific
fields will be abandoned, and this more
favored region will become the center of
attraction. The speedy appreciation Of
property is one result. Land on the
belt is only to be had at $1,000 per acre
and one-fourth of the production, a
great increase upon the old valuation.
The preparations to drill other wells pro.
ceeds, and, as it requires only two or
three weeks to drill we'll, proportion
ate yield will make the supply coming
from that region far larger than the de-
mand.
The production OF last year is given
as nearly thirty million barrels of crude
oil, third more than was required to
answer the demands of the trade. In
fact for five years the production has ex-
ceeded the requirement. In the stor-
age tanks and at the seaboard 10000
barrels, or much more than years con-
sumption, are awaiting shipment. This
circumstance would not be disquieting
were it not that the unexpected increase
of stock will send prices down below
paying standard. The serious import to
many investors and dealers of this over
production of oil is obvious, and the
corresponding fact that decline affects
favorably households throughout the
land whose expenditure for light is les
sened, is to be remembered. The tor
rent of the crude petroleum is blessing
to others if not to the spectators and
those persons who profits come from
well-sustained market.
In 1859, the production of oil in Penn
sylvania was $500 barrels, of a value at
the wells of S4l, ,664. The following year
the production was 65O,OOO barrels,
worth at the wells $4,36S, ,OO0 From
1859 to 1875 the total production was
76, 1876, 1913 barrels, worth S245, ,9O4, $3.50
at the wells. The average price per bar.
rel for the year 1859 was $l3. In a year
the price had gone do wn to S6. ~, and in
the succeeding year the price was only
S2.73, while the production had in-
creased near fourfold, the latter fact ex-
planning the former. Up to the end of
1874 there had been drilled 10, 499 wells
in the oil region. The history of sud.
den fortunes which cast glamour over
the early days of the oil industry cannot
be repeated in equal measure. Doubt
less stronger statements are made than
the case will warrant. Enough is well
ascertaIned, however, to justify the
rather excited accounts which come from
the new wells. The commercial bearing
of the discovery is s'plain, and it is to be
hoped for the sake of persons who are
unable to bear the loss that the predic.
tions of disastrous fall in prices are
needlessly alarming, while consumers
everywhere will be glad to bear that at
least one article in the domestic economy
ia likely TO be cb eaper.