The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-11

!neIe was nafQly peasant proprietor
in the whole island. There are now ST.
OO0, mostly negroes, and all have ac-
quile their little holdings from the
white planters by purchase. Their own
ership ls the fruit of honest, patient toll.
II has been hard struggle, uphill
work, SO far. but their progress has been
great. 1t will be much greater hence
forward. They have now a frmer foun-
dation on which to build; they are their
own masters, the owners of their own
land. There is hope ahead. What
peasant proprietary has done for the
whites Of France and Belgium it will
also do for the negroes OF the West
Indies and the United States. 1t will
make them thrifty and industrious, and
will bring them prosperity.-Chicago
Tribune.
Interesting miscellaneous Items.
The reason advanced by Henry L.
Taylor, of Belair, Nd, for asking for
divorce is that his wife will not let him
read the Bible.
The wife of an Ottawa, Ont, man did
not get handkerchief for him so
promptly as he wished, and he dubbed
her to death.
The Texas wire fence cutters kill as
we'll as destroy. Mr. Wise, one of the
most prominent land owners and stock
1aisers in the vicinity of Benham was re-
Gently lynched by the desperadoes.
AS an evidence of the lightning speed
of Florida railways, the fact that the
Fernandina & Jacksonville Road ran
over a catamount is pointed to with
pride.
The profile of the Old Man of the
Mountains, in the White mountains, is
to be rivaled by rock of Cohasset which
gives an outline of the features of Daniel
Webster.
Ella Hill, fourteen years Old, OF Sey-
mour, Ind, killed herself because her
mother made her wear an old dress.
A well-to-do man of Clasion, Iowa,
sent the remains of his wife to Illinois
| to be buried, in trunk, to save express
charges. To get the body in the trunk,
the body was unjointed at the hips and
knees.
| A few nights ago an engineer of the
Western & Atlantic Railroad, in Geor-
gia, while overlooking the machinery
Of his engine preparatory to starting out
Oh his run, discovered a small white boy
asleep on the cross piece under the en-
CINE pilot. The lad was hauled out Just
before the train started.
The Worcester, Mass, town records
show that, in 1879, six-year-old-boy
had his ear bitten fby horse, and the
selectn1en drew up certificate showing
the manner of the injury and recorded
it on the town books, so that the loss
should not be preiudicial to the boy
when he grew up.
A" Drink Map" of Oxford, England,
has just beenissued, from which itappears
that the inbabita nts of that classic town
must DIR ink fully as much as they study.
Oxford has population of only 5000,
to sell liquor. They are all we'll patron
lied, and intemperance is very COM
mon.
John Travis and family, Of Phoebe,
New, having been invited by his BROTH
er-in-law, A. J. Blair, to dine with them,
declined giving as their reason that his
family was so large it would inconven-
ience Mrs. Blair. Mr.. Blair took this re-
1usal as an Insult, and drew his pistol
and shot Travis, the ball grazing his left
side and entering an awning post. Tray
is then Jumped on Blair and took the
pistol away from nim.
In Wadsworth, New, a stranger
walked up to the bar after buying and
drinking a glass Of whisky, offered to
drink all that any one would pay for.
some of the bystanders, being desirious
of testing the fellows capacity, put up
i uutil he had swalloW6H eleven glasses,
4 which threw him into a stupor from
which it was impossible to revive him,
and In six hours he ceased to breathe.
! Judge Hare, Of Philadelphia, was ap-
pealed to by Mrs. William McQuillan,
the mother of three little children, to
liberate her husband, who had oeen
sentenced to one years Imprisonment
for assault. Calling the woman behind
the bar the Judge said: "On second
thoughts, have concluded to give your
husband one more chance. | will re-
six months-and while you are waiting
for him to come out perhaps you and
your little children may find this OF
some use." AS he finished he drew a
fat roll of greenbacks from his pocket,
thrust it into the Woman's hand, and,
with quiet "good day." hastened into
his private room.
James M. Tooker, Of Darian, Conn.,,
owned a goat. On Thursday of last week
the goat died, and on Friday morning
the carcass was found hanging in the
window of Waterbury's market labeled
"venison." The butcher was highly in.
dignant, of course, and so was Druggist
Hoyt when, on Sunday morning, he
found the body curled up on the lounge
morning the goat was found in the
BARRIERS chair, evidently waiting for a
shave or hair cut.
+. J. Smith, of Tucson, A. T., has four
gold fish hooks that he unearthed in the
South American placers. He was min
ing in a river bed near the city of Cali =,
in the State of Cauca, United States OF
Colombia, in 1866, when he pulled up a
small tree by the roots, and there in the
sand lay dozen regularly shaped gold
fish hooks OF the ordinary size. They
are not bent in the Limerick fashion.
historic Indians. When Mr.. Smith re.
turned to San Francisco he gave some
away, lost others, and now has only four
left. He has been repeatedly asked to
put his price on these, but refused to do
so. The other day he refused an offer
of $40 for one.
George F. Barstow, Of San Francisco,
who left an estate valued at $780, 900
gave these injunctionsin his will: "Hav.
ing observed that ostentation and ex-
pensive funerals are injurious to the
people, after absorbing money which
poverty cannot we'll spare to vanity and
pride, therefore by want of example,
for which 1 beg pardon of the underta.-
kers, let my coffin be plain redwood
box, put together with common nails or
screws without paint or varnish, with
plain iron handles and all else about the
funeral to correspond with this plain.
ness. Let there be cheap shroud and
no flowers. What is dead man but a
handful Of dirt? Instead of a hearse [
may just as we'll be carried to the grave
upon some ordinary vehicle in every
day use, since life is but a journey and
the day of death the final rest