The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-07-19
GENERAL NEVIS GOSSIP.

Mrs. Dr.. Mary Walker again threatens to
become a national issue. She has been dis
charged from the pension Office as incom-
petent and a nuisance. Mary asserts it is
because of her pants, but Commissioner
Dudley says she is an annoyance and a
crank, and has rendered herself intolerable.
in everything but her paraso], and even
that she occasionally changes for q cane.
She has written the commissioner a vicious
letter. aud says she will resent herself for
duty as usual, and go to congress for her
pay. This worked with great success with
Gen. Spinner, and she thinks Of trying it
again. If she persists in this course, she
will be shut out of the building, and must
content herself with reporting at the Office
door.
Ellen S. Hines. aged ffty-three, of St.
Paul, has commenced proceedings for d.
vorce from Samuel G. Hines, aged fitty-four.
The complaint sets forth that they were
married in Knox county, ILL.,, in 1850, and
lived together until 1877. when he deserted
her. There were five children, of whom
tiff has resided in Ramsey county for ten
years and does not know the whereabouts
of the defendant.
Some days ago Pat Dsrden, chief of the Mis-
slssippi grange, charged the supreme judges
of the State with applying for and accepting
free passes. At first they denied it, but later
all. with one exception, VIZ )te public
letter acknowledging that they have fire.
quently travelled on free railroad passes, and
even now carry them. Darden says there
are but two judges in the whole State who
do not carry free passes.
The sensation in Newburg, N. Y, is the
elopement of Mr.. J. E. Wells, a married
man about thirty eight years old, with Miss
Nettie Vail, a niece Of his wife, who had
lived with them for the past ten or twelve
years. Wells is farmer and cattle dealer
who did large business. He leaves credi.
tors to the amount of $4,000. The runa-
way pair is thought to have gone west.
Postof6ces have been established as fol-
lows: Dakota-AtlaHtis, Day county; Kate,
Mcpherson county; Sargent; Sargent county;
Tomlinson, Foster county. Nebraska
Ridge, Pipeetone county, Mimi, has been
discontinued; mail to Pioestone. Post
masters have been commissioned as follows:
HenryG Rising, Reddeld, Oak. Charles II.
Roser, Philips, Wis. "a -
DR.. Dawley of Amigo, Wis, wrote NOR
phine by mistake for quinine in prescrip-
ton, and killed his patient, Bohemian
boy, recently. Theresis great excitement at
of violencs are made. It is not thought
that Dawley will be prosecuted.
The German-American bank of st. Cloud
has been organized with the following, of.
ficers: President c. A. Hull; vice president
F. e. Searle; cashier, Edgar Hull. The act
ual capital of the bank Is $50 600, author
jed capital 500, 900. 1t will be opened for
BUSH ees on or about Aug. l.
: George Purcell found q middle-aged wom-
an recently. wandering around in the woods
near Mount Holly, KY, perfectly nude. 1t
il claimed that she is the woman who, q
year ago. confessed the murder of her In
FAINT while patient at the city hospital at
Louisville. Ia So = r#ss@ -s.zz.ss:
o. William Taussig of Chicago, dealer in leaf
tobacco. has made an assignment. Liabi,i-
ties $50, 900; preferred creditors 5000. The
assets are unknown, but are believed to be
small. The creditors are chiefly in New
York sl -
Private Bockleman of the Fourteenth
New YORK regiment, who was drummed
ont Of the state camrsat Peekskill BY order
Of Col. Austin, has brought suit sgainst
the colonel, laying daying damages at $685.
coo. III MA "a s.
a Washington correspondent says Mary
Clemmer Ames and her new husband, Ed
ward Hudson. look like a benig nantS old
aunt and her nephew, her husband being
many yesH the younger Of the: two.
Five Of the old Minnesota bonds, which
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