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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06
GIGANTIC BUCKEYES.
The House that is Occupied by il Couple OF
Ohio Giants.

The House that is Occupied by Is Couple OF
Ohio Giants.
From the Cincinnati: Enquirer:
Capt. Martin Van Buren, Dates. who lives
or 4 farm near Segille 0 is feet1 l 1-2
;nc ,es high. and weighs 478 pounds. Mrs.
baves is feet II inches high, and weighs
Alb pounds. It is a difficult matter to con-
vey an adequate idea Of the proportion OF
snch a dwelling as the one occupied by the
Ohio giants. ,A.door that is six feet six
inches high is large sized opening Ill the
side Of Il house-that is q dwelling house,
not cathedral. But the doors of the
domiciie of the Bates giants are ten feet
high, and the knobs are nearly as high as
the reporters head.
The house was built by Capt. Bates i'll
1876, ard is elegantly furnished. In the
main building on the ground floor are. be-
sides the spacious hail. tine bed chamber
of the giants, sitting room and parlor.
The couch upon which the big couple
sleep Was made especially for them, and it
is curiosity to look at 1t is extensive
enough to give the great people
room to stretch in. and it
looks as big rs an ordinary sized floor. 1t
is really ten feet long, wide in proportion,
ard about twice as high as common bed.
The magnificent dressing case IS also
huge a1idlr, with glass upon II yearly as
big as the side of q mouse. In tie sitting
room is piano of ordinary siZs itself, but
it is mounted on blocks two feet high, SD
that the instrument is away up in the air,
out of the reach of common folks. There
are two rocking chairs iu this room that are
SO big that the reporter had to climb up in
to one of them the same as an infant would
Chamber up into a high chair 1t is very
expensive for giants to live, as they have to
psy such an ezcroitant price for everything
they wear. For instance, it costs the capt
ain $50 pair of boots.
IT is most astonishing sight t. come
across the two giants out for a drive. City
folks have seen the ponde-ous wagons with
wheels reaching to the second story of
house, used to haul stones weighing tons
and tons, can form any idea of the vehicle
used. It is pulled by six stout Norman
horses, and it is enough to make man
think he has got 'em sure to suddenly meet
such spectacle on the road out in the
country. Passing wagons have to let the
:;.ils down and drive into the adjoining
fields until the giants 60 by.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06
The Confederate Finds.

General George G. Dibrell, of Tennes-
see: who commanded Jefferson Davis mill
itary escort on his flight southwark after
Gen. Lees surrender, has published let
ter, in which he ridicules the recent state
1nent of an officer Of Michigan regiment
that MIR. Davis had $4,000 of gold in his
saddle bags when captured. General Di-
brell says that the specie, which was car
ried bya train Of four wagons and amounted
to $108,QOO, was paid to the troops at
Washington, Ga, by order of General
Breckenridge. The money was made over
by MAJOR 3. G. White, the senior quarter
master present, and each officer and soldier
received the ame..amount- $26.25. Gener-
al: Dibrell dds-Maior White, after the
payments were all made, handed me re-
port in writing of the amount received by
him and the payments made peach COM
mand, showing how he had disbursel the
$108.000. This report I brought home
with me, but have lost or mislaid it. Ma
jor White was a citizen of Ann Arundel
county, Md, but Of late I have been I'M
able to learn his address. @z.g .;r
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06
What the New Stamps Cost.

''Ilow much do you suppose the new
stamps: cost the government" WAS
asked the other day By Assistant Post
master General Hatton, writes Wash.
inylon correspondent. "Yeu don't
know, but IN tell you-just 8 1-5 cents
! thousand. They cost the contractors
more than that. The plates, paper.
printing, perforating, and putin. the
nuclage Oh is worth something; then
they must be packed and done up in
IL ch priced envelopes. Half tie post
offices do not call for more than 100
stamps at /; time, but they have to go
through the same routine as in filling an
order Of millions for New York. It costs
them more than they get. Where is
the profit in the contraci2'' l naturally
asked fright here,' was the response
".ill the countries Oh this continen:
south Of us have their postage stamps
nude in this country. They prefer the
concern which supplies our government
This is the American Bank Note Com
pany of New York. Eut they have 10
pay five to ten times the price we pay,
and they find no fault. There's where
the profit comes in from :. akiEg our
stamps. 1t IS the only way to secure
these other gooI contracts" People
have wondered often why the govern
ment, with is great bureau of printing
and engraving here in Washington, is al.
ways underbiu by outside parties in the
stamp and postal note contracts. Per-
haps they will see more clearly after
reading the paragraph. -.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06
Sheridan's Off Hand Greek.
rom tae London Family Herald.

Lord Belgrave having clinched a
speech in the House of Commons with q
long Greek quotation, Sheridan, in re-
ply, admitted the force Of the quotation.
so far as it went. But" said he, "had
the noble Lord proceeded little further
and completed the passage. he would
have seen that it applied the other way"
Sheridan then sponted something. ore
rotundo, which had all the ais, ois, kous
and koes that gave the world assurance
of Greek quotation, upon which Lord
Belsrave very promptly and handsomely
com plimented the honorable .-memoer
on his readiness of recollection, and
frankly admitted that the continuation
of the passage had the tendency as
cribed to it by Mr.. Sheridan, and that
he had overlooked it at the mument
when he gave his quotation: On the
breaking up Of the house, Fox, who
piuued himself on "having some Greek"
went up to Sheridan and asked nim,
Sheridan, how came you to be SO ready
with that passage? Uncertainty is as you
say, but I was not aware of it before you
quoted it," It is almost Unnecessary to
observe that there was no Greek at all
in Sheridan's imDrOmptu.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06
Effects of Female Suffrage in
'f' WyOming

Cheyenne Letter to the New York Times:
"What effect, in your opinion, has
woman suffrage had upon the social and
political condition Of Cheyenne and
Wyeming?" I have put this question to
men and women of all classes among my
acquaintance, which is almost co-exten-
sive with the population. of Cheyenne.
A working man replied: "When lived
in Colorado. would have scorned an
offer of few dollars for my vote on
election day. Here in Wyoming, when
I am offered $50 for the votes of my
fa,nily-myself, wife and three daugn-
ters-I find that scorn gives way to q cal
culation that $50 is equal to what earn in
five weeks work. 1t don't matter 1nuch
to me who holds Office. ! live all the
same" A leading citizen of the terri
tory said: "We vote our women rela.
tives to counterbalance. the votes of the
degraded classes" a pregnant sentence,
indeed, and most significant in its first
five words. A DISTINGUISHED member
of the bar answered.: "None, except
ing to make our politics a source of
greater corruption and immortality than
ever" A man who had acted for years
as police officer, sheriff, and city mar
shall, said: 1.-The bad woman ale all for
sale on election day, and the good ones
knife a candidate who don't attend Sun
day school," The replies of women
were mostly that they were glad of a
chance to vote against bad men or for
good men. Some said they never had
voted, excepting once or twice to enjoy
the novelty. A few avowed that they
had no taste for politics, and never yo.
ted.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06
i Bid for Booth.

Some of the letters received by great men
are full Of pathos. The following is let
ter receive by Edwin Booth, many years
ago. from "West School House, Prospect.
N. Y" which is so full of pathos and gall
that every body ought to read it:
"ME. EDWARD BooTH-Dear Sur and
Friend: Heerlng that you was going to
come to Utica to perform a play called
'Hamilt.' would like to say that us boys
is Citing up Exhibition Cor the bene fit OF
the deceased soldiers and their widows and
orphans, and wo1ld like to engage you to
take the Leading part. have talked il up
with the boys, and We will do the square
thing with you, and am orterised to make
you the following offer: We will come
down after you with a good conveyance,
and will give you the rate of Ten. Dollars
per day and board, and shall want you
about one weak. If you think lit nessary
You can have one or two of your best vim
min actors come up with you; but we can't
pay them over three dollars day and feed.
You know how that is yourself, this kind of
| isuness is awful uncertain. You. can have
some fun out of it hun ting dear and
foxes around FIamsbnrgs and Ed Wilksuns.
Please let me know as soon as YOU can.
Yours truly, JAMES SWEET. r.. !ScriD-H
you come callating to hunt, get Frank
Meyers hound. She is good one"
Imagine Edwin Booth 1as Hamlit" going
to the country leading hound by piece
of BEDFORD!
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06
Crimes and Criminals.

Joseph Jewell, one of three who, last
March, murdered NJ. P. Renowder to- get
possession of,his earnings, amounting to $M,-
600, was hanged at San Jose, CAL, on the
Goth inst He said he did not know how he
came to commit the deed. It was not for
money He never needed that. It Was a
mystery that only God could explain. When
the black cap was put on he said: "Put it
on square; you've got it twisted
On the 18th Of October, John R. Murphy,
a bachelor, was killed in: bis store at Jack
sonville, Ind, by q burglar, who robbed him
of 81. 600 and escaped. Thomas Davis, q
thief now in Jail, was suspected, but pair
of bloody socks were found in the store
where the murdered man lay, and now a
young girl in Jacksonville says that the
socks belong to John Turner. :
Policeman Ballard, while attempting to
arrest man named George Wilson in De.
troit, Mich, on the 2sth inst, on suspicion
of stealing barrel of oil which was found
III his house, was shot by Wilson in the
bowels, and died in forty minutes. Wilson
escaped. Billiard leaves sick wife and four
children.
Joseph F. Mitchell, the negro who created
sensation last June among the Good Sa-
maritans in Atlanta, Ga, was sentenced to
six years. Mitchell was one of the trustees
Of the order, and by forging check drew
nearly So, 500 of the orders money from the
Atlanta national bank and skipp ed out.
. John Ellis, the rape fend, received his
sentence from Judge Farmer at Preston,
MIMI, to state prison for life. Ellis vic
tim was Belle Blacker, ten years, his own
daughter. Ellis was union. soldier and
draws pension Of $24 per month.
Deputy Sheriff John Woodson, of Platte
City, Mo-, nephew of ex-Gov. Woodson, was
shot and killed by man named Upton, at
Camden Point, the cause being ill-feeling
on account of Tipton's arrest by the depu-
ty sheriff some time since.
Dick Mitchell and Jones have been ar
rested at Petersburg, Va, for the murder of
Thomas Bragg, all colored. One held Bragg
while the other strangled him with hand
kerchief
The ninth attempt to fire buildings in
the Fourth ward, Of milwaukee was made at
an early hour on the 3Oth.
Montreal is oat $4,000 through incom-
petent and dishonest officials.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06
/. BERGMAN. Publisher.
MINNESOTA
$WADENA,
STATE NEWS CONDENSED
The Question of Terms.


Attorney General Hahn is constantly receiv-
ing inquiries in regard to the terms Of Office
Of the recently elected county officials. He has
already delivered the following opinion, in
reply to P. Fitzpatrick, county attorney Of
Winona county, which applies to all cases.
At his 'requestit is printed in full: -.
As to tho superintendent of schools,7:I hold In
an opinion this day given to the superintendent Of
Wright county. that these officers take their office
Dec Las heretofore. because the result Of the
constitutional amendment CHAP 2. Laws 1889,
will not be ascertaned, the proclamation OF the
governor be issued until after Jan I, ands the
amendment is not in force until these things are
ascertaned and done As to county treasurers q
different conclusion must be arrived at, because
the result ofsthe vote and the proclamation the
governor WILL in the ordinary course of events. be
ascertained and made before the first Monday OF
January, 1884 If it shall appear that the amend
msnt is adopted, all laws inconsistent with it Will.
pro tauto, be Imperative. aud the clause in said
amendment providing that "all terms Of Office
shall terminate that time. viz. the first Monday
Of January in each year will be the rule and guide
in the future, Notwithstanding anything in any Of
the laws of this State to the contrary am, there
FORE of the opinion that the newly. county
treasurers will take their Offices on the first Monday
Of January. instead of the first day Of March, as
heretofore
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06

ss sss ,prMnfo,sj Sc
Itstha ein.A AZ thu III, ascal year there were
2ns1sa sSs,sioners. 4 .folloW1:.
& $3.50 = 1873 649
;o :, : =: ana demand
4 nnt,a.sSy. & 74,474
~ W. Ir~si;Ss 8 2.4CS
r ", ,c. =: =; md denani
navy t Ease ess. MINOR We = >.- .907
s, ~ - ~ tha :; * i II 1881
WiInw 49, - th ~, who s.ryad Il, Tina Tar
W VIZ 1S1 - 'nose VIZ AsseA =. 21.336
Tha,e 80. a: adis n,inc te YEAR Ssl62 new
nanstnnars and 7sS nrayiously dropped were re-
atnrei msiin1 the tntsi added 3895a an excess
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06
Casualty Record.

| Ia Chicago, Saturday afternoon, fire was
discovered in the Farewell block, the largest
business building in the city, bounded by
| Adams, Market and Monroe streets and the
| river. Great destruction, however, was bro.
ken by heavy fire walls running through it,
| but for which the entire building would
have been swept by the flames. The fire was
confined to Nos. 1853 and 40 Market street,
the three lower floors of which were occu-
pied by Metz!er Brothers, notion dealers,
and the four upper ioo"s by Beak & Booker,
their lives. Loss is $50, 900; insurance, $4o,-
600. Beak & Bucher's loss is $65, 200; in.
surance, 100000. Loss on building, $40,
| 900; fully insured. The Chicago Journal Of
| fee, on Dearborn street Chicago, was
wrecked by fi-e on the LIST inst,
also the J. B. Jeffrey printing company,
one of the largest show printing establish
ments in the country. The Journals loss
! by ms urance. The J. B. Jeffrey printing
company suffer loss OF $130, 200; insured
for $4,000.
Stevens, the lessee, places his individual
loss by the windsor theater. New York fire,
| at about $4,000; partly insaied. The
The interruption. to the season may
cost him $4,000 more. The loss on the
theater building is PLACED at $500, ESQ; ia
sured for two. thirds the sum. Schiller,
Israel & Co., furniture and carpet dealers,
stock $45, 900. Loss on building, $50 600.
Other losses are about SIS, 600 distributed
among a number of people; about half in.
sured.s tG%s.,2
Isaac Smart vas drowned, while building
dam on Cherry creek, near Newton, Iowa,
on the Goth inst. About noon his son left
him and went home, but on returning with
in an hour found that tie dam was being IN.
defmined and washed away. Smsrt's body
was found entangled in the debris Of the
dam.
At Menominee, Wis, A. n. Jehnson's
sash, door and blind factory, and lumber
on the morning of The. LIST. The loss will
approximate $1s 600, with insurance of
| A Frenchnan named Ozias was found dead
in Wilcox's swamp, near Chippewa Falls,
recently, having died from exposure and
starvation. "a al -
Rat,Pertage, 15e miles west of Winnipeg,
Manitoba, had destructive fire on the
9th.
The Windsor theater. New York was
burned on the night OF the 9th. No lives
lost. sS..2 Z I
The Carbondale, ILL.,, university made q
$3.50, 900 meal for the fire fend recently.
The Salonyille,. Mass, wooden mills were
burned $3.50, 600 worth recently. $
Mr.. Osterstock Of Akron, Ohio, is insane
bs cause his wife forsook him.
The steamship Sportsman came into Liy-.
S,.~nSS {Ssxn,E -
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06
Miscellaneous News Items:

Miscellaneous News Items:
The tenth annual convention Of the
Young mems Christian associations of Min
nesota will be held in Saltwater Dec. 6 to 8.
Topics of special interest, relative to Min
nesota work will be discussed by prominen
workers both at home and from abroad
amo.g whom will be C. D. Willis and W.
E. Lewis of Wisconsin; E. E. Ingersoll and
C. Olandt of New York.
Gov. Crosby, report shows the resources
of:the national banks of Montana from all
sources $7,2SO. 253 IS. The capital stock
paid in $1,175, 900. In addition there are
estimated deposits in private banks of ST.
500, 900, with carital stock of $40O, 600.
New York and Boston pa pers describe q
wonderfully red sunset on the oath. Thou.
sands ofdispatches were received in New
York asking s'where the fire was"
Doane college. Crete, Neb., has been given
$1,000 by Mr.. Roswell of Connecticut for an
observatory.
J.&R McGregor, tanners, New Glasgow,
have assigned. Liabilities, 1928 ,00O;. assets,
$4,000. l..
W. L. Watt, a shoedealer of Lima
Ohio, has made an assignment. Liabilities
$4,000.
Phil Armour and others are building a
3O,OO foundlings home in Chicago.
+, The New jersey vote was .10s,S56 Dem
ocratic and 97,047 Republican,: - -,
Columbus, Ohio, abolishes Greek in the
high school. .,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06
Memory Dy Association.
from the Detroit Free Press.

from Inc DetfOlt Free eress.
In one of the Justices courts the other
day in suit for malicious trespass in en-
tering upon land and removing fence, one
of the witnesses was asked: did you help
build that fence?" II did," What year
was it? "Well, let's see. Il was the same
year that my brother in law had his leg
broke in a wrestling match at Dearborn. ="
well, what year was that" 'Let's sec
It was just six months after we found the
Duggan boy drowned in Sabin's well. That
was-that was eighteen hundred and-and
-" "Can't you remember why, yes,
I ought to. Lets see. That sa,ze summer
that we took the Duggau. boy out of the
wellTyler's second girl started to run away
with tin peddler, and we caught them juEt
the other side of Dearborn. squared off
on the peddler o',d knocked him Is feet in
to the bushes" "But what year was it
that you Jilt the fence?" why, the same
year that all this happened, or maybe year
before or after. If could only talk with
my old woman minute could get it ex-
act. "How2" Why, was building the
last half Of that fence when she was hooked
by.a COW, and she'd hunt up the man who
owned the beast and hit the date square in
the head" It was decided to let the exact
date remain in seclusion. although the wit
ness suddenly bethought himself that i.
was somewhere around" the same year
that Browns horses ran away and smashed
into Deacon Tracy's front gate.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06
Alfonso Wishes the Count of Paris
49, Wall

London Cable: In coming away from the
banquet recently, King Alfonso remarked
TO distinguished parsonage, familiar with
the Spanish embassy at Paris:
after the explicit declaration of my govern
m ent, and after sending Marshal Serrano,
the chief of the party in power, as sort Of
hostage, to Paris. The people in France
must be endowed With very little political
sagacity to-, believe that I was going to
make hard and fast alliance. with Ger
many. I, myself, am personally in the
confidence and friendship of my near rela-
tive, M. lie Comite de Paris, whom one day
or another hope to see king OF France.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06
Nhatsa Mormon Elder Says,

Salt L1ke City Special: John, Taylor.
president 81 the Mormon church. in an in.
terview recently says he does not propose
to resign at present in anybody's favor. It
he was removed he would resign in Can
mons favor for harmony and prosperity in
were at work all over the world with great
success. ind Mormonisln was oound to pre-
vail, especially in the United States. More
converts had been brought to Utah since
the passage of the Edmunds bill than for
four years before. The church organ cop.
es the Cleveland anti.polygamy society's
constitution, and adds If this secret abomi-
nation initiated at Cleveland spreads over
the country, surely the deep hypocrisy OF
the nation, stepped as it is in the slough of
iniquity, shall bring upon it the swift 1udg-
ment OF offending heaven.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06

rhe meanest father on record has
been discovered at Atlantic City, n. J.
He had his daughters front teeth pulled
out to discourage the attentions of an
obnoxious young man. ss5
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her.
Charles Boyk,n, colored, and member
Of Company A., Twenty-ffth infantry, who
has been on trial at Yankton, Oak. for
week past for the murder Of Robert Willis,
was acquitted the other day. There was no
doubt OF the killing which occurred at Fort
Hale, April q; hut - eWillih who was con.
sidered q sergeant Qfthe company was con;
sidered a petty t{rant Andshad knocked
Boykin down, shortly before the shooting,
the jury seemedlto consider the killing iusti-
fable. % %tz. Is-&,S
B. Eastburn, clerk in the Office ofreceiver
sof taxes, Philadelphia, arrested In 1881 for.
the commission of frauds, has been takento'
the lunattc asylum ut Frankfort, Pa. In.
vestigation showed that Eastburn had taken
daily from s. to 1000. $ S 81
Ger. SicAles cannot wear q false leg, and
walks on crutches. Not long ago he passed,
in the New York opera house, young Bar
ton Key, son of the man he killed in WASH
tngt0n. i ,3:-E55' - ~ 's7:
It is reported that Henry N. Stanley in
tends to defend himself against the charge
made by the committee of the African So
ciety of impatience in dealing with the ma
tives.
0cIkch0V A0SOA udo 0CC0pGSA OLA SA606o-
ment With Manager Harris, of Pittsburg,
Pa, and will shortly appear in the museum
there. Betty and the baby will not be ex.
hibited. r4
Jesse Rogers and Rena Anderson of East.
man, Ga, eloped, with mad father 50
close that they lett their buggy and succeed.
ed in getting to minister, who married
them.
Senator Anthony continues to improve.
His physician thinks he will be able to
leave New York for Washington by The LIST
inst.
John 8. Hseckmer, supreme ex-treasurer
of the Catholic knights of America, is to
be prosecuted for forging bond in 1881.
The engagement of CONGRESSMAN Perry
Belmont of New York to Miss Langdon has
been terminated by the young lady.
Sven Nilsson, the Swedish naturalist
| is dead. He was in his ninety-seventh
year.
DR.. David Wood owns 100000 feet o.
| standing pine in Wisconsin and Michigan.
The late Gov. Matt Head of New Hamp
| shire had sec, 600 life insurance.
julius Payer, Austrian Arctic explorer, il
dead, aged forty'one years.
| President Brooks, OF the Minneapolis
beard of trade is dead.
| Joe Jefferson has lost his voice temporily
it is hoped.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-06

= J. Grouse. one Of the earliest settlers Of
Todd county, died in Bnrnhamyille sged.
sixty-four years. & ss5 "a IS