The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-07-12
Current Notes.

Boston's: most respectable citizens
to quote The Advertiser; who happen
to own property rented for gambling
bells, are greatly stirred up over the ac-
ton of the society tor the suppression OF
vice, which has given them notice that
unless they clean up their tenements,
they will be prosecuted. 1t will inter-
fere with the rent rolls to keep only
honest tenants.
The original habits of the black bass
ranged from Virginia to Florida; and
from Canada and the Red River of the
North to Louisiana and New Mexico; it
embraces the whole of North America
south of the EifitisE possessions and east
of the Rocky mountains, except the He-
ters flowing .into the Atlantic in New
England and the Middle States.
The consumption OF ice in New York
in hot Weather and at present low prices
Is averaged by dealers to be from 800 to
10000 tons per day, and with supply
of 3 ,OO0, 900 on the Hudson there is little
fear of an ice famine. But there is a
prospect that unless the extreme low
prices create greater demand for ice
tn, is expected there will be from 700,-
COO tons of ice carried over to next year.
A prominent woman's advocate eff fe"
male suffrage is ont in a defense of a
sehoolteacber dismissed from her posi-
ton on the score Of incomoetency. She
SAYS: 'Had Miss-llad the ballot in
her hai1d / should have looked for quite
a different result; She has not been
from first to last as she should have
Been had she bee1 invested with COM
plete citizenship"
A remarkable and highly interesting
''find" both historians and psychologists,
has lately been made in the out-of:the-
way but picturesque little village of Tin
tinhull, in Somerset, England. In a gar
ret of the house Of the present church
warden was discovered q great pile of
parchments, letters, and books of vari-
GUS descriptions, and amongst this pile
of much that was useless were found the
church books, carefully boun and we'll
preserved, written IN Various but. clerk y
hands, and giving 8 concise account of
the history Of the church from the year
1878 back to 142a.
The officers Of d church in New York
have been, soliciting the opinions Of
members upon the desirability of lit
uirgical services: 4 gentleman writes
that he does not object to a responsive
service if there is fair understa nding
that all hands shall 20 in. but il. it is
only going to be chirp or two here and
there, it will be simply ridicul6ts; and
you can count me out" A lady writes
that if responsive service means that she
has got to keep saying she is "miser-
able sinner" during prayer time, she is
opposed to it, for it isn't true.
The evils of English rule in India are
fearlessly exposed by Florence Nightin-
gale. In Bengal the zemindars are
native landlords and the ryot are the
peasantry. The ryot has, it appears, to
rao lees for every marriage in his own
family, as we'll as in that of the zcmin.
dar, has to provide bracelets for the
zemindar's family; and even furnish
forth the fruits which the zemindat
gives to his friends. In Orissa the ryot
has to pay "eleven different kinds Of
annual taxes, and seventeen kinds Of
occasional tax; they are charges by the
zemind II three rupees for water, which
10 supplied the zemindar, for one rupee
Miss Nightingale recko1ls that since the
British took possession the zemindars
have despoiled the peasantry of a sum
equal to the Franco German indemnity