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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-12-23
MuNUERED Ia MoNEY.

CHIHUAHUA, MIX, Dec 22.-The dead
Romano Stewart, were found in the road
between Par0i and BstOpilos. Breuan's
head was split open with an IKE, showing
that he was murdered BreHan'a part
ner residing al Parrol, says Brennan started
for BatOpiIOs with large amount Of Amer
lean and Mexican gold. Brennan was we'll
known in Arizona aud has relatives in
Philadelphia.
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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-12-23
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
The BOycetted Nickel Wins at Last in
Mexico.
France and Her Troubles - Germany
and the Vatican.
Severe Shock of Earthquake Felt at
Lisbon.
other Flashes From Parkway Fields.

TATEI.
PARIS, Dec. 2}-- lue government has
telegrsphed Admiral CouiUet to EXPIRE. 10
the troops the satisfaction OF France with
their brave conduct az SOntay.
UNDAUETCD AND nlPUDENT,
The anarchists arrested Tor advertising
and promoting the meeting at the Bourse
on the lth instant, and for manufacturing
explosives, have been sentenced 10 iM-
prisonment for terms ranging from one
week 10 six months. When Judgment WIS
pronounced several present shouted; give
auarChiel"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-12-23

Ionk Tine
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30
Rough Oh Flies.


ASSNOAOs
THAT'S queer }order," remarked a
Chestnut street florist on Saturday after
noon to a Record reporter, at the sane
time handing him despatch, dated At
lantic City, August 4, which read as fol-
lows: "Send the 200 castor-oil plants as
soon as possible, and the price quoted in
your letter of July %. Sample came O.
K. and acted like charm" To the tel
egram was attached the name of the pro-
prietor of one of the largest hotels at At
lantic City.
"What does he want with castor-oil
pIants? queried the scribe:
"Well," replied the florist, They're
not particularly pretty, but they're death
on flies and mosquitoes and he is going
to use them to keep his hotel free from
these pests"
''The discovery that castor-oil plants
possess the faculty of killing and keep
ing away flies, mosquitoes and other in.
sects was recently made by a French
that certain rooms in his house in which
tirely free from these disagreeable in
oOSVos eSAoAAOu61 oUAOA npalGN4OANo "0Io
infested with them. He found lying
near the plants great quantities of dead
flies, and large number Of dead bodies
were hanging to the under surface ofthe
leaves, which caused him to investigate
the matter, and the discovery was made
that the plants gave out an essential oil
or some tonic principal which possessed
very powerful secticide qualities.
In the greenhouse connected with the
florists establishment tho reporter was
shown several hundred Of the plants,
from foot to eighteen inches in height,
and the careful examination of the place
failed to disclose the presence of sim
gle fly.
There is no doubt" said the florist,
that the idea of keeping out insects by
this means will prove very popular. The
plants are hardy and need but little
care"
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30
California Grape-Growing.

Grape-growing in California pays
about as we'll as any form of agricultural
industry, even without discounting the
extravagant stories tod about the profits
of orange culture. The Napa Register
tells of q vine grower in Green Valley
who has a vineyard comprising only
twenty-one acres, but these yielded
enough to enable him to ship 100 tons
of grapes to wine cellar in Napa City,
and 5000 boxes of IS pounds each to San
Francisco, and still keeps on hand ten
tons for his own use. The grapes thus
slipped by him sold for so per ton in
Napa City and at two cents per pound
in San Francisco, giving him $500. The
entire cost for growing and selling the
fruit was $3.50, leaving him net profit
of over $4,000. or more than 5000 an
acre. Wheat-growing, even with the
most successful crops, could not have
paid over $50 an acre. The land that
yielded 60 bountifully could have origin
ally been bought outright for much les
than the profits Of 8 single year.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

The completion of the Northern Paci-
fic railroad now being celebrated,
makes the fourth line of railroad already
built across the continent, and marks
another era in the grand progress and
development Of this great country. In
some res poets it is the most important
road of all, if the value of the vast region
which it opens up for settlement is taken
into the account, and it is destined to
become the favorite route of foreign and
domestic tourists who wish to see some
of the finest scenery in the world. It
penetrates a section of country over
1000 miles in extent, of which but little
that is authentic has been published,
but whose natural beauty, fertility of
soil and richness in mineral resources
will .;ow be known,
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

Congressman John A. Kasson, OF
Iowa, discusses the government of cities
in the September number of the North
American Review. In regard to their
debts, he arrives at the conclusion that
"the people who do not pay are always
eady to create debts again st the people
who must pay" Mr.. Kaason thinks
that the only remedy for municipal ex-
travagance is restriction of suffrage. a
plan which he saw working in Vienna
pleased him very much. The voters
there are divided into three classes. OF
,..,se the highest taxpayers elect one
third Of the municipal council, while
another and lesser set, paying taxes
above certain amount, hut less than
tle sum paid BY taxpayers Of the first
q aas, constitute the second class, which 4
elects also one-t third OF the city council.
All other persons entitled tosyote elect
last third of the alderman.
si'l.e mayor is chosen BY ) smaiority &c ~:
the municipal repre- q
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30
The Minnesota state Fair

General George B. Loring United States
commissioner of agric llture has been en-.
gagged to deliver the annual address at the
Minnesota State Fair at Owatonna Sept 9Th.
The 25th Annual Fair of the Minnesota
State Agricultural Society will be held at
the City Of Owatonna, commencing Sept.
Sd and holding the entire week. The new
buildings on the grounds are nearly com.
pleted and are second to none in the state,
All will be IN readiness when the fair opens.
The 400 stalls for horses and cattle and
the pens for sheep have already been taken
ond the society are going to put up 100
more to accommodS the display which
brought together. The exhibitors come
from Illino s, Iow,: Wisconsin, and Mime
sofa and ale among the most pr. minent
importers and breeders in The United
States. All the different breeds of horses
cattle and swine will be upon exhibition.
lawrence, Straight & Co., the famous cream.
cry men Of our state will put up and operate
first class creamery on the grounds
during the Fair, making from $50 to 300
pounds Of butter daily, thus giving the farm
ers Of his state an opportunity to see how
creamery butter is made. -
The machinery and other exhibits will be
upon q scale commensurate with our great
state. In fact the coming State Fair prom
ises to be The largest and best ever held by
the Society, and places it in the front rank
Of The great fairs Of our country, 5-s
Reduced rates can be from all points to:
the Fair, and extra and excursiOn trains
will be run on the different railroad to the
Fair, and all stock md articles for exhibition
carried free. OwAtonna ID making prep.
arations TO take care Of al who come -
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30
TALK ABOUT WAR TALK.
A Word of Good Advice from Cover
nor Curtin OF Pennsylvania.

A Word of Good Advice from Cover
nor Curtin OF Pennsylvania.
At a Washington dinner some weeks age
there were some interesting and some
amusing speeches made. The guests were
composed of those who served in the late
war, barring few dignitaries who bore
distinguished part in the civic service of the
same era. Among the former one, vino has
since attained high judicial position. wss
Justice Stanley Matthews. !.
But the hero Of this special dinner was
Andrew G.. Curtin, the old "wer governor
Of Pennsylvania, low in congress froL. u :
same state. Atall, Bot very robust old gen,
tleman, who speaks slowly and g GLiet1y tif
war med up with his subject when his Voics
dee pens and his whole manner changes sc
that he holds the closest attention to hi!
hearers. He impresses one as man pos
sessed of more than ordinary powers as a
politician, who certainly comes very close
to being statesman as wall. His account
of the difficulties that pertained to the du-
ties of his position at the time when the
government resorted to a cOnscription was
very interesting, and the tribute which fol-
lowed to the men who volunteered ofcourse
very gratifying to those present. But it was
the ready wit of the speaker that drought
down the house" when he supplemented
warning to those present to tsse care as the
years roll on not to fall into the not uucom-
mon failing of old soldiers claiming all the
laurels of the entire war for their OWE brig
ades, regiments. companies and persons by
little story. This story was of an old Penn
sylvanian townsman OF the governors who
wagonmaster. AS years rolled on this per-
son was wont to expatiate upon his per
sonal sevices at the battle of Monmouth
(his single action of momenD until as he sat
in the village store one night, after ssv, raj
accepted invitations to drink, he told it In
this wise: "In that fearful day at Nom
mouth, although entitled to a horse,
fought on foot. With each blow | severed
an Engliskman's head from his body, Until
huge pile of heads lay around me, greet
pools of blood OH either side, and my shde.5
were full of the same dreadful fluid that
my feet slipped beneath me. Just then |
up who should 1 behold but the great and
good Washington himself. Never shall |
forget the majesty and dignity of his pres
ence as pressing his hand upon me he said:
My yound friend ret1in yourself AID or
heavens sake do not make slaughter house
of yourself The shouts of laughter toat
greeted this story showed that the governor
had made point that it is to be hoped will
not be forgotten at future military reunions,
where I have sometimes thought it would
be well if a rule suggested by witty Mary
come general-that no story be permissible
that involved the movement OF any body OF
OF men smaller than an army corps. This
would cut off some excellent stories, but it
would be very much in the interest of the
ninth commandment.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30
A Reckless Woman.
rom Peck's Sun.


"Well, SIR" said an engineer, as he
took doughnut, 'tall these accidents
occur Just by people trying to be smart.
I have seen hundreds of farmers who
would stop their teams far enough away
from train, so there would be no dam
ger, but about one in ten acts as though
be owned the earth, and if he gets the
hind end of his wagon over he thinks
he has achieved something remarkable.
l expect to kill woman out here about
a hundred miles one of these days. She
drives an old black mare, and think
she lays for train. She sees the train
coming, and slaps the old mare with the
lines, and hurries or the track, and the
old mare stops as though she was going
to eat grass, and then the old lady looks
up at me in the cab window, through her
spectacles, slaps the old mare some
more, and she meanders off the track
Just before 1 hit her, and the old lady
looks back at me as the engine whirls
past, and my heart is in my mouth, and
she looks just as though she thought I
was running that way just for fun, and
that am an impolite thing, because l
don't slack up f,r her. Some day the
marsh out there is going to have show
er of black mare and buggy wheels and
spectacies. and there will be Grape on
the old lady's door, and instead of a sui
eide, the CORNERS jury will blame the
engineer, and her relatives will sue the
company for damages"
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

AS soon as the completion of the
Northern Pacific shall bave been sup
plemented by connection with Califor.
MIA from Portland, trains will run
through from st. Paul to San Francisco,
via Oregon, in the same time now made
by the Union and Central Pacific from
Omaha to San Francisco. The distance
from St. Paul to San Francisco, via Port
land, will be 2,700 miles. It can be
made in four days at an average speed
of less than thirty miles an hour.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

Few are aware of the great reductions
in freight charges within few years
from the west to the seaboard. It cost
2l.22 to send wheat from Chicago to Liv.
erpool in 1873, while last year it cost
7.74 cents per bushel, and this year
the average cost is 9.OS. The freight
charges on grain from Chicago to New
York by lake, canal and rail have fal len
off since 1868 on an average 66 per cent
Of the grain received ut Atlantic ports
astyear S0.2 per cent. came by rail and
1908 per cent. by the lakes, canals and
the Hudson river. The extortion, if il
prevails anywhere is on the local lines
and not on the great trunk lines.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

The terrible effects of the late cyclone
at Rochester, Minn., might have been
partially avoided if every household had
been provided with an underground
place of shelter such as are now so com.
mon in cyclonic sections of Iowa, Mis-
souri,, and Kansas. There seems to be
no means of preventing losses of prop
erty by severe cyclones, but liyes can be
saved by precautions that are inexpen-
siVe and entirely practicable.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

The English crop reports show that
the harvest will again be inadequate to
the demands of domestic consumption,
and that the people must depend very
largely upon America for their food sup
ply. This will help business on this side,
and probably avert the threatened "dull
times" here,
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

While emigration from Europe to the
United States has been smaller this year
than last, Canada had received more i'm.
migrants by seven thousand at the end
of July than arrived in the first seven
of 1882. But it is limited that many o1
these immigrants find their way in 8
short time to the ''land of the free and
the home of the brave"-which is this
side the line
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

The failure of the strike of the tele.
graphers seems to have produced no un-
pleasant results, as nearly all have been
taken again into service by the tele
graph company. which could ill-aford
to dispense with such an amount of
skilled labor. The causes of the failure
are attributed to the difficulty of max
ing close combination of O,0OO person
scattered all over the country, and to
the sympathy and aid extended to the
company by other large corporations
which felt that they were, or mightsoon
be, in the same boat. 1t is limited that
some concessions will now be made by
the company.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

The late Hon. Jeremiah Black of Penn.
sylvania was one of the most terse
crispy and vigorous writer's in the coun
try-his style, in some respects, resem.
bling that which has made reputation
for Gen. Sherman. He was formerly
Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Su.
preme Court, and was the attorney gen
eral of President Buchanan's cabinet
Judge Black was one of the democratic
leaders who unhesitatingN Aspoused the
cause of the Union and The Government
when the South Threatened secession
anu finally rehslled. He was man Of
ability assd undoubted patriotism.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

Henry Ward Beecher during his va
cation has visited va rious points in Min.
nesota, Dakota and Montana, and is now
in Portland, Oregon, stopping with one
of his sons, and this week will be in San n
Francisco. Before returning to Brook
lyn he will make short lecture tour ot
the South, his Church having given him
an extended leave of absence. The
Beecher of to-day is not the Beecher o.
ten or twenty years ago, as all admitted
who heard him then ard again on hit
present tour. He has left q trace. o.
disappointment as wide as the continent
among those who expected too much o1
a man oyer seventy-1ve years of age.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

Minnesota, like Wisconsin and some
of the other western states, does not in
fict capital punishment for murder. In
her penitentiary there are now 800 pris-
oners, and of these forty-6ve are
murderers who are "doing"a life ren-
tQnco
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

The statistical feDds is still magnify
ing the wheat crop, without word as
got, from the threshers, They do not
care to have the exact figures for they
hnd imagination better serves the pur.
poses, inasmuch as it allows monstrous
exaggerat,ons and depresses the price
of the commodity.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

The preliminary report of the bureau
of statistics on foreign and domestic COM
1nerce makes an exceedingly favorable
showing. The value of exported mer-
chandise during the past year has ex-
ceeded that of the imports Of $1OO,6s3,-
l53, against an excess of the preceding
year Of SIS, ,9O2 ,6S3.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

If, generally represented by re-
cent foreign advices, the grain crops of
England and France are short this year,
those countries will need more of Our
American grain during the next twelve
months than their necessities required
during the past wear.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30
CRIMES IND CRIMINALS.


Red Wing Special: A bold burglary with
intent TO steal wss perpretrated the 18th inst,
at the residence of John Elk, who lives in
the Third ward. Elk is employed as lime
burner, and.leaves his home about IL o'clock
midnight to engage in his work. The en-
trance was made shortly after Elk bad left,
and it 60 frightened Mrs. Elk to see the bur-
glar inside that she cried murder and called
for assistance, which was luckily heard by
:neiehbors, who at once started in pursuit
ol the offender, with the result that he was,
after few hours search, found and brought
before Justice Graham. Hegive his name
as George Hoffman, and says he came from
Minneapolis. To the charge of burglary
with intent to steal he pleaded not guilty,
waived examination, was bound over in
$500 10 answer to any Indictment that may
be brought sgainst linie by the grand Jury
atthe next term Of the district court. No
bail was furnished, and the defendant went
10 Jail. s.s5
Last week = young girl, seventeen years
of age, named Laura Stiles, called at the
municipal court room at 81. Psul, and OBJ:
tlinsd s warrant for the arm 81 ons I.siw.5 W
rsncss. Bal, charging him with bsdng the.
fath. &C her expected child BalI ~ ~
rested md the two appeared before Judge
go
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30
THE FIGURES.

The F10URES.
The principal losses in Rochester, as nearly
as have been estimated, are as follows:
Court house. unroofed. $4,000
High school building. tower and part of roof
koHo G,VU
Methodist church. roof gone, sides buged,
WEeCheu. 0.UUu
Congregational church. steepe off.....:. 1905
gone, bridge ruined and other losses Ii, 1000
Vahdusen g. Co.'S elevator. ...........-:.. 10000
a. T. Horizons elevator. ........... 1000
Harvester works and machinery. .......... $4,000
j. NJ. Cole's mill, side and roof off, mill
wrecked and engine blown into the river. $4,000
Crescent creamery. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1900
Cascade mill Observation-Disclosures. ..... +, 600
George Stockbridges store and stock. ...... 5000
Vain Beardsleys building. g................. 1000
A. D. Vedder, machine depot. 1000
Ten business blocks uuroofed. 5000
tents $4,000
Two hundred and sixty houses damaged . 10000
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30
MOustaches Made to Order.

From the St. Louis Post t-Dispatch.
"Are you ever called upon to raise
moustaches for youngsters" Post-Dis- =;
patch reporter asked professor of haixs
culture who seems to have extensiHS
following here. -
"Oh, yes, indeed" was the hair aIa
peller's reply. II have many custcarssrs
from sixteen to twenty-one, and even
as high as twenty-five, whom 1 treat
specially for the growth of the NOUS
tache. The youngest customers ares
anxious to force the crop of hair on
their upper lip; the old ones find the
growth too scanty and are anxious to
increase its luxuriance. In the latter
instance the seed pores have not been
opened or life has disappeared from the
bulb before 1t got a chance to sprout.
The easiest cases to handle, though, are
young mea who want precocious Jcous-
taches. By feeding the hair roots, keep
ing the soil moist and warm and the
pores open, [ have found it possible in
three months to give a sixteen or sever
teen-year-older very good-looking
moustache before the rest of the face is
ready for the touch Of the razor"
'sAre there many young men anxious
for this labial decoration?' -
you'd be surprised to know the mum.
Der. have now under treatment three
young men from local board ng school,
two boys in one railroad office. the son
ofa prominent operator on Change and
clergyman's boy. They come here reg
ularly every three weeks to have the
furze clipped from their lips, which
strengthens the hair. No, do not use.
the razor. It would pull the hair roox
out in the tender condition in which til y
treatment leaves the flesh. A fine sharp
scissors does the work"
"What do you charge tllem?'
Give dollars bottle for the wash and
a dollar for each clipping"
do any of the boys want side whis-
kers?'
II never had but one cali for them
since I went into the business. A young
fellow studying for the ministry came ins
and asked me if I could produce pair
of blonde side-boards on his face. L
said I could produce the hair, but it
might not be exactly blonde. The. hair
ofhis head was red, and when wouldn't
guarantee to decorate his jaws with q
yellow tow he got up and left. Oh, it's
fun!" ss7.ssE - = ~ 49, 49,
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

The constitutional convention OF
Southern Dakota will be held at Siou x
Falls on the 4th day of September. 1t is
believed that the business will be trans
acted in q few days.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

Seventy-six new Episcopal churches
are being built in Florida.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30

So FOREIGN Nl.EJ1zS GOSSIP
The prorogati q. Of parliament Mss done
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30
The average temperature in the nf
Mexico Throughout the wear is sixty I'VE.

degrees, and during Z. hottest montI;sz
/ of the year, April AMI Nay. the TEN per-
ature seldom exceeds eighty five de.
grees.