The Northern Pacific farmer., 1882-10-26


posted in hole in the chapel wall. The
entrance was then Theoretically sealed and
the entrance plastered over, after the solemn
enunciation from the officiating priest
Poverty in life, so also in DEATH" "a
The McCully \ Miles company of Chica-
go have been awarded the contract for put
ting III the stained glass, etc, at the capitol
for 5000. The work is to be completed by
Dec. Is. Specimens of the designs accepted
indicate that the work will be both han,.-
some and artistic. 1.-THE. light in theseuatc
chamber will be emblaZoned with represcn-
tations OF agriculture, while in the house OF
representatives the design will pay tribute
to commerce. In the governors room will
be- Il memorial window, bearing the great
seal OF the state. All Of the designs are
very appropriate and beautiful, and will be
in the best cathedral and antique glass.
At Lexington Ky, the sale of the Fair
View herd Of shOrthorn took place Friday.
The animals were Of the best strain OF
blood eXtant, and the term royal blood
might we'll be used. Buyers from the west
as far as the Pacific slope, and from the
! east and northwest, as well as the Cana
das, We're present, among them N. L.
Clarke of st. Cloud Mimi. who bought
Willful, Red (from Wild Flower Oxford
cross, Paying $1,000, when was the highest
The Minnesota state house approaches
completion. The last stone of the ma onry
of the lower was laid Monday to the music
of artillery on tho ground below and speech
making on the heights above. 1t is hoped
to have the legislative .hambers ready for
the sessions of the senate and house this
winter.
From 1868 to the present year there have
| been 400 skirmishes and battles with In
dians west of the Mississippi, in which more
than a thousand officers and men of the ar.
my have been killed. There are in that
| territory Is, $40 soldiers to take care OF H..
500 redskins, most of whom are we'll armed
In the United States circuit court at Port
land, Me-, Judge Deadly called attention Of
the grand Jury to the law in regard to po-
ltical assessments, and instructed the jury,
if any violation of the law could be found,
it was their duty to indict the offenders.
The steam yacht for Jay Gould will be
completed by spring. 1t will be constr ucted
of iron and steel, and have steel boilers; be
210 feet long, 27 feet beam and 16 feet deep,
and will have l, 500 Indicated horse power.
Eight of eleven proprietors of starch fac
tories of the west signed terms of consolida-
ton in Cincinnati forming single
stock company, under the title, Ma
tiOnal Starch company.
A Virginia crossroads postmaster, who
was assessed 800 by Boss Malone, enclosed
500 confederate note, for which Mahones
postoffice department forcib.y bounced the
practical-j joking postmaster.
The Grand lodge Of the Order of Railroad
Co ductors, u national organization, con-
cluded its annual session in st. Paul Friday
with a public reception, and also speeches
by local orators.
The grand Jury Of Monmouth county, N.
J., indicted the editor and two reporters Of a
Red Bank paper for conspiracy in giving
accounts OF a typhoid fever epidemic.
Sheriff Goodall of Missouri, who killed
Taylor the Tennessee desperate, has taken
the body to Chattanooga, where he received
80, 500 reward.
A. and C. ]. Hope, iron importers of
Montreal, have suspended. Liabilities Ill
rect, 100000, secured; indirect, S15O,0OO.
Hon. John O'Connor finds a rival claim
ant for the chief justiceship of Manitoba in
the person of Dalton Mccarthy, NJ. ?.
There was considerable snow at Winnipeg
and Pembina on the 18th.