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The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23
NOAH'S ARK.
Finding the Ancient Vessel in Gla
cler on Mount Ararat

cler on Mount Ararat
A Constantinople newspaper all
nounces the discovery of Noah's ark. It
appears that some Turkish commits
sioners appointed to investigate the ques-
ton of avalanches on Mount Ararat sud-
denly came upon gigantic structure of
very dark wood protruding from glac-
ier. They made inquiries of the inhab-
itants @. 1925 in their report. These
had seen it for six years. but had been
afraid to approach it, because spirit of
fierce aspect had been seen looking out
of the upper window. Turkish commits
sioners, however, are bold men, not de-
tered by such trifes, and they deter
minded to reach it. Situated as it was
among the Businesses Of one of the glens
of Mount Ararat, it was a work of enor-
nous difficulty, and it was only alter in
credible hardships that they succeeded.
The ark. one will be glad to hear, WAS
in good state of preservation, although
the angles-observe, not the bow or
stern-had been good deal broken in
Englishman among them who had pre-
sumably read his Bible, and he saw thEt
it was made Of the ancient gopher wood
of scripture, which, as every one knows,
only grows on the plains of the Euphra-
tes. Efecting an entrance. into the
structure, which was painted brown,
they found that the admiralty require
ments for the conveyance of horses had
been carried out, and the interior was
divided into partitions fifteen feet high.
Into three of these only could they get,
the others being full of ice, and how far
the ark extended into the glacier they
conld not tell. If, however, on being
uncovered, it turns out to be 600 cubits
long, it will 90 hard with disbelievers in
the Book of Genesis. "Needless to say"
says the Pail Mall Gazette, ''an Aneri-
can was soon on the spotand negotiations
have been entered into with the local
pasha for it's speedy transfer to the
United States"
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23
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: YOU.

If I could have my dearest wish fulfilled,
And take my choice of all earth treasures.
too,:
from heaven whatsoe'er willed,
I'd ask for you.
No man I'd envy, neither low nor high,
Nor king in castle old or palace new:
I'd hold Golconda's mines less rich [than l,
i'll had you.
Toll and privation, poverty and care,
Undaunted I'd defy, nor fortune WOO.
Having my wife, no jewel else I'd wear,
lfshe were you.
Little I'd care how lovely she might be, i,
How graced with every charm, how fond,
Fen though q afs Perfection, she be naught to
"7 Were she not YOU.
There is more charm for my ttas loving
In everything you. think or say or do,
Than all the joys that heaven could eer
impart,
Because it's you.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

The election of a senator for New
Hampshire completes the roll of the
senate for the next congress. There
have been twenty-six elections for the
senate for the next congress, and of
these fifteen were in the last CO neress,
leaving eleven who are entirely new
men. OF the old senators reelected
four are. republicans and eleven are
democrats; Of new men who had no
seats in the senate Of the last congress
eight are republicans two are democrats
and one readjuster. The democrats
have lost two senators,-one III Oregon
and one in Virginia-abt they have
gained one in Louisis1a. The republi-
cans have got ore of their party III the
place of doubtful David Davis, and they
have gaine d one from the democrats in
Oregon. The senate will stand 50 re.
pub'icans ,36 democrats and readjuste1's>
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

The most earnest advocates of the Ed
munds law for the suppression ofpo]vg-
amy in Utah admit that it has proveda
failure. It was supposed by
disfranchising polygsmists, and placing
*he electoral machinery in the hands of a
commission authorized by Congress the
anti Mormon voters would be able to
control the Territorial Legislature of
Utah. The recent election has served
to dispel this illusion. The Mormons
had things pretty much their own way
and the Legislature is overwhelmingly
under their control. Members of the
commission are not quite so Respondent
They argue that the law of dlsfranchise-
7nens operates as stigma upon polyg-
amy, and that the young and ambitious
who are as anxious as Genti|es for politi-
cal preferment, will keep clear of poly
gamoCs alliances.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23
A Hartford gentleman wrote to the
secretary of the general delivery of

A Hartford gentleman wrote to the
secretary of the general delivery of
the postofice at London for informa-
ton as to the general delivery of mail
matter in England and received reply
that there is no village and but few
hamlets in the United Kingdom with
out a delivery of letters from house to
house. Insome thinly inhabited dis
tricts letters are not delivered every
day, but twice or three times a week,
but with rare exceptions letters are de-
ivered even in the rural districts six
days in the week, if not seven. The
frequency of the delivery depends upon
the number of letters, the hours of the
arrival of the mails and the cost Of pro-
viding the service. AS rule all towns
and most of the considerable villages
have deliveries from house to house
twice day. OF the 91O head postof6ces
thirty have one delivery per day, $50
have two, 800 have three, 1l5 have four,
seeventeen bave Eve, six have six, and
one liverpool has seven daily deIiv-f
cries.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

Penny postage has worked wonders
in England. In 1889, the year wheh It
was adopted. 76,O0O,OOO letters passed
through the posotffice The next year
the number bounded up to nearly l69,-
OOo, 900, and hasever since increased rap
IDLY. Last year the number of letters
delivered in the United Kingdom was
no less than 1,2S0, ,6S6 ZOO In addition to
ete letters there were 144,O16,2OO post
cards. 140,6S2,60o newspapers and 2SS,-
2O6, 400 book packets and circulars. The
average number of letters per head of
the population is larger than in any coun-
try of the continent, and considerably
higher even than the average in the
United States. The average number of
letters per head of ta,epopulatioh in the
United Kingdom is 36. and in the United
States 81. The hig CHEST averages
on the continent are in France and VSeh-
many, Is and Is respectively. In Eng
land and Wales together the average
reaches as high as 40i i'll Scotland 80, and
IN Ireland 16.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

Referring to the recent turmoil in
Wafl ssreet, the Evening Post says there
enas no reason in the world why q panic
should be feared, the business of the
country being in excellent condition, and
the outlook for large export trade of
grain being unparalleled. The condi-
tlons which preceded the panic of 1873
are all absent. Rufus Hatch says eve
cannot have general panic in America
now, for the country is unusually pros
porous and well-prepared for emerpen-
cies. The chief causes of this break lin
stocks have been that there are too MANY
people living in the cities and too few
tilling the soil, and the general rascalitv
Of the stock brokers and speculators
throughout the country. The immedi-
ate resultsof the furry will be to draw
money away from all investments and
speculation. The richer the man is the
more timid he is about investing in any,
thing. Business generally, however. will
soon return'to better, healthier basis
than before the Depression
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

Adjutant General Drum of the repu-
Tar army takes great!interest in the mil
st'a of the States. He thinks there
should be national militia .-of at least
100000 strong, uniformed and equipped
by the United States exactly as federal
troops are uniformed and equipped.
There should be artillery and cavalry in
the quota which each state would be ex-
pected to furnish. The United States
should furnish armories where they
were needed and every other thing
which the state did not provide or which
the militiamen could not obtain at slight
expense. The militia ought to be re-
garded as the reserve of the regular
army. 1t ought to be so officered and
so trained that it could be modified
within 4S hours. The nation could de-
dend upon it's militia. 1t could we'll af-
ford to spend five or ten millions year
in preparing such an army and million
or two year in keeping it up. Gen.
Drum will embody these ideas in a re-
port to be submitted to congress, and
possibly something may come of it in
due time.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

Oscar Wilde, the apostle of sestheti-
cism is back again to New York. He
comes to reap ..another harvest of gilt
tering American dollars. His return
was by no means triumphal affair, for
scarcely dozen knew it or cared about
it. The news Of his utter social collapse
there had preceded him to New York.
and the probability now is, that so far
from being lionized, feted, petted and
caressed, so strong is the force Of exam
pie in canons of taste, he will be left
by people this side the Atlantic severe.
ly alone.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

There was almost panic last week in
the New York stock market, but the
trouble did not extend westward. An
uneasy feeling however, prevailed all
over the country, owing to increased
business failures, and especially to the
failure of two or three national banks.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

The Baptist weekly says: eff a church
wants to secure new pastor it can
scarcely take surer course to drive off
desirable men than by maligning the
pastor who has left them"
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

VIEWS VE 1I7E IS.
John Kope, section boss on the Chicago
Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad, was run
over by hand.car hear fewahkee, Wis,
on the 18th, and diedIof his injuries. He
leaves wife and two children, ono .hAar.
ried.
A horse was discovered in the railway
bridge hear North Branch by three citizens,
who Rescued the equine, just in time
to avert the vrecking of the approaching
train.
Vice President Oakes, Of the Northern
Pacific, says that the August earnings of
the road will be at tho rate az sa, ,0OO, 900 per
anntam.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23
FOREIGN NEWS GoSsJP.
French trade returns fer The first seven

FOREIGN NEWS GOSSIP.
French trade returns fer The first seven
months of 1882 stew the value of imports
increased 53, ,o0O, 900 francs, compared with
this same period of last year. Exports de-
creased 5O,OOO,OOO francs. The increase in
the value of imports was due to the demand
for foreign raw material. The decrease
in exports was in manufactured goods.
Forbes, firmerly chief secretary for Ire
land, in speech At hevonpoft. strongly
urged the necessity of emigr ,tion for Ire
laid. He said thousands of hard-workipg
farmers there lOnged to 60 to country
where they could live without being terror
of the scheme for misfation in Ireland.
TIE text Of the treaty OF cofhmefce and
am1ty between Mexico and Germany is pub
lished. The treaty CONTAINS the most fav-
ored nation clause. Germans to pay no
taxes not levied on. Mexicans, to be exempt
from military service and FROM contribu.
A party of desoaitors in small saving
bank in london, angry at their inability to
draw their money on demand, entered the
bank recently and wrecked the premises.
Police were called, but refuse to interfere.
There were 433 deaths froE. cholera in
Egypt en- the 18th, including six at Cairo.
Two hu"dred and two persons died from
cholera at Bombay the past fortnight,
A street car line Is COW In operation at
Toxic, japan, v ith Japanese Conductors,
who carry the bell-ptneh:
The prince Of Wales has contributed
:*loO toward the relief of the sufferers by the
1schia earthquake.
Baron Won Wallsndorf, the Austrian
Scientist, is dead.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

Ex-senator William Sharon built fox
ty- seven houses IN San Francisco dur-
ING the last year.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

During thirty days of the melon sea-
son $50, 900 of the fruit passed through
Montgomery, Ala, on their way north.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

A Passion Play is to be produced next
summer at Emerald village near SAP
Francisco. 4.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23
will be above $500, GOO and may reach $500,

will be above $500, 600 and may reach $500,
GO. The two main buildings, the dry
house and all their contents are total loss,
as nothing whatever remains of them but
the blackened walls. The shops when run.
ming at their full capacity employed J. 500
men, but for the last two years it Is said the
business has been slack, and opA shout
400 or 500 men have heen enpfHyed. The
paint and eonstrqctitr shoPe ,we1e full of
cars that were partly. finished: Part of
100000 in various New York ecnfanies.
The propeller Pctomstc, of Cleveland.
Ohio, valued at $40, ,Oo6, insured for 900,
sad loaded with rye worth $26. 6.000, is On
the beach near Ahnapee, Wis. With Twelve
feet of water in her hold, kaSing stove her
bottom on rock. Che has been abandoned
to the Underwriters.
A broken-shouldered woman turns up in
st. Paul with q curiously circumstantial
story of terrible accident on the Fort
Wayne road on the 14th inst, of which no.
body else ever heard.
Jacob H. Starin, q bfomihent resident o5
Fultonville, N. Y, and brother Of the Hon.
John II. Stsrin of New York, had his skull
fractured by a horses kick. He is dying.
For the six months ended August l, leo
PERSONS were killed and sol injured on rAi,-
roads in New York state.
-. PERSoN4L MENTION:
Will 9. Jones the young dude who was
severely cowhided by. Grace Gourtland il
Milwaukee, is in Berlin, and threa,chj 10
return. to the Cream, City tld begin suits
for Ebe!! sssa5ns: sae newspapers which
Courtland, who whipped him, left party
in Milwaukee to watch her interests, and II
Jones returns he will be given the warmest
kind Of a reception.
James McDermot, who w.s arrested sov~
| eral days ago on board the stsaMef City of
| Montreal On her arrival from New York,
WAS brotght Up for bearing a. Liverpool.
He ~a5 remanded, after evidence had been
Kiyen showing, that be had been seen with
| Dillon, convicted co9spiretct, examining
various public huisclngs.
:, A telegram from White Sulphur Springs,
Va, announces the death of Pierre Bern
ard the husband of the late Caroline Rich
! ings Bernard, the, vocalist The remains
will be taken 10 Richmond for interment
beside his wife
Hon. George Maesten, late attorney gen.
! erai of MassaS husetts, and member of the
1ew Erm of Marston & Cobb, died at his re-
sldence, after six weeks illness, aged sixty
| one.
| DR.. Moffat, who died recently in Englant3
was for many years missionary IN Atriea.
Livingstone, the exploref. married his
Daughter.
Lofts juefgens, h prominent Chicsso
/ manufacturer, died recently in Berlin. He
| was highly resPeetsa among business
1 men.
Mrs Sanford E. Chdr ch, wife siiift Of .tte late
Chief Justice Church. di-4 IN Albion, N.
Y, recently.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23
A letter has been received at Washington

A letter has been received at Washington
by Gen. Swain, from Fort Leavenworlh,
stating that Maj, Edward B. Grimes, quar-
termaste1, who has been very i'll at that
post for some time with dropsy, is failing so
rapidly that no hope remains for his recov-
ery., he was appointed assistant quarter
master of the volunteers in 1862, and was
transferred to the regular army in May,
1866, being promoted in March, 1882, to
mayor. His present duty is as depot quar-
terMaaat Fort Leavenworth. In 1876 6
duty at St. Louis, and was a
= -. Ritness at the whisky conspiracy
eior to that served at St. Paul,
a.s..zs Alcago and other points.
S. 80 ept gold discovery is reported
- river in Alaska.
Nh ddleield, Mass, celsbra-
!, | ndredth anniversary on the
4s!& h. exsrcises were he'll in q
nl ding 1000 people.
ss elon, Ill, Saturday night
|!!.Z 5 mill and carriage
!. =. her mill owned by
a. 600; no insurance.
y = r. sgRy John Atkinson.
N q
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

BRA1NERD, Special Telegram, Aug. 49,
Mandie Davis, a little five-year-old daughter
Of Walter Davis of this city, was saved from
drowning here at noon to-day, by the vory
daring and thoughtful act of Miss Minnie
Merritt. aged about eighteen, niece of Hon. G.
F. Kindred The little child fell by accident
into cistern at Mrs. Merritt's house, and was
discovered by Miss Merritt just as she was go
ing down for the last time. No assistance was
near, aud realizing that something must be
done at once, she thought not OF her own
safety but plunged in after her The water
came up to her neck, but she succeeded
in diving, she does not know how, and grasp
ing the child by her clothing and bringing her
to the surface, where she held her until her
mother, attracted by her cries, come and re-
lieved her Of the child and helped her out The
little one was in senseess condition A ply
sician who was summoned was some time in
returning animation. She is now past all dan
ger, however.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23


E: B. Carney, lumber dealer of sauk Center,
| has been forced to suspend business. It il
estimated that the liabilities will not reach
$40, 600, while the assets will exceed $50, 600.
At Hector, on the 18th inst, burglars en-.
tered the stores Of Nixon Il Griffith and
Schouweller Bros, and escaped with $525;
Carver county veterans will hold reun.
ion at Chaska on Friday and Saturday, Sept
and 3.
The German American National Bank in
St. Cloud will be opened for business in
few days.
The Hennepin County Catholic Building
and Loan association now has an actual
membership of something over go persons.
Since its organization the association has
issued s, ,118 shares of stock at $500 per share,
equal to $1,O23, 800. Only 1898 shares OF
this stock has been borrowed upon.
The four-yeat. old daughter of +. G. Hines
of East st. Cloud was fatally poisoned, be.
iEg given horse medicine by mistake.
Her little brother, who took similar dose,
was saved
The new Methodist church at Worthington
will be dedicated Sept. 2 by Bishop G. D.
Foss OF Minneapolis.
J. T. Lyon. city marshal Of Worthington,
while on a drunken ssree, arrested three
men withoat cause and attempted to take
them to jail. Mayor Smith inter fered;
whereupon Lyon drew a revolver, firing at
him several times. but did no damage.
hSeriR en- Miller tn made his appearance
and one shot was fired at him, but the bul.
let flew wide of its mark. LyoA was arres-
ted and iodged in Jail.
The name of the Wabasha Elevate: com
pany, lately organized, has been changed to
that of the Minnesoia Elevator company.
Its capital stock is $3.50, 600, and the incor-
porato Is are Messrs. W. P. Brown and c..
II. Duryea, Red Wing; G. F. Rodgers and
renee of Wabasha. The company owns at
present twenty y-three elevators and are now
NEGOTIATING for more
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

: Milton Holbrook Sanford, the we'll
known turfman. died recently at New s
port, r. /.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

y Eeceiptss of minnesota Po.toaaces.:
,WAsH1NGroN, Special Telegram, Aug IT,
The following is q statement Of. receipts at the
postof6ces at st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Winona for the four quarters of the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1888,
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23
Returns from Kentucky.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Aus. l4.-Official returns
from seventy nine counties give Knott, Demo-
crat, for governor, los, ,397, Morrow, Republi-
can. 56, 179. Tho same courties in 1870
gave Blackburn 95,945. Evans, Republican,
5O,S94. Kuott's majority in seyenty-nine
counties, 37,2lS, Blackburn's majority, 3d.
Uol: Ho The election, therefore, shows a
Democratic gain in votes of 1852,
and Republican gain of 5,285, or not Dem
ocratic gain of 2, lG7 Thirty -oight counties
yet to hear from voted in 1879 as follows:
Blackburn, 49, 1854; Evans, 2O,9S8; showing
majority for Blackburn OF $500. T. these
Counties should vo e as they did in 1879
hnott's majority Will exceed 10000. 1t they
snow the same ratio of increase it will be at
east a, 900. This will be nearer the figuro
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23
Civil Flights Decision.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.-A decision was rem
dered by Judge Mills in the police court to-day
in the civil rights case of Rev. George Fl.
Smith (colored) of Norwich, Coun., against
James W. Bell, proprietor of d restaurant
The ground OF coru, ,lalnt was that the defend
ant had deuied the accommo lations of his res
taurant to the plaintiff account of the latter's
color, and suit was brought to enforce the
criminal provisions of the act of March l,
1875. The court holds that
Under the common law an inn keeper is bound to
take in and receive all travellers and wayfarers, and
by the act of March l, l975. it is made criminal to
discriminate against travellers account of race
and color or previous condition of servtude." A
restaurant keeper has right to establish certain
regulations as to hours Of meals and 10 designate
certain places seats for customers, but such hours
and seats must be the same for all, or if any dis
principle or for some reason that the law recog
1'' on account % Of 'coor ''S'''t Race or @ psevo1s
condition. All guests Of an inn or restaurant must
be given equal privileges and places designated for
them: must be accessible to all respecable persons
at uniform rate of charges. From these princi-
pies follows that the defendant III discriminating
against the complainant account of race and
color was guilty of misdemeanor aud incurred the
penalty. prescribed by the second section Of the
civil rights act of 1875. Judgement is entered ac-
cordinely.
This case is in some respects novel one,
since it is tho first attempt to enforce the PEN
atty under the second section of the civil rights
act, which makes violation of the law mis-
demeanor: and it is the first effort made to en-
force the criminal provisions of the law in q
Territory where Congress has exclusive and
absolute legislative jurisdiction.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23
Speedy Justice.

OAKLAND, Miss. Aug. 16-On the 26th Of
last July Townsend Sayle, a young merchant
engaged In business here, was assassinated by
an unknown party, who mutilated the remains
IN horrible manner. Suspicion pointed I'd a
negro named 10 Payne, who Was arrested yes
terday He made full confession, and to day
at 1885 p. m. Payne was publicly hanged by
tho almost unanimous vote of 500 or 600
citizens The proceedings were quiet. Sheriff
Pearson made an eloquent appeal in favor
of the law taking its course, but the crime was
SO revolving, and his confession of cold, delib-
crate murder so clear and satisfactory, that the
sheriff was overpowered and relieved of his
Charge. A court was at once organized, be-
fore which Payne made full confession, say
ing that on the night Of the killing he went to
the house of Sayle for the purpose of killing
him for his money; that he waited there
until Sayle came out, when he joined
him. They walked about 200 yards,
when he knocked him down, then
cut his throat and threw him in deep gully,
rlted his pockets of money and store and safe
keys. Then he went to the store, got what
money was there, amounting in all to about
$3O gallows was at once erected and the
prisoner mounted the scaffold with firm step.
In ten minutes after the drop fell he was pro-
nounced dead The colored people were as
clamorOus as the white for avenging the crime.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23

married colored girl recently, having
divorced wife and left his two children
with her. His neighbors tarred and feathered
him, and drove him out of town.
Clayton, Iowa, produces high.toned bur
glars. A $4,000 robbery has been traced to
a justice of the peace, an insurance agent
and q general man about town.
Peter Smith of Maysgille, o., was killed
by blow from q billy in the hands Of
Pres Lawson, one Of his employees.
At Baltimore Mrs. E. j. Curry was
whipped to death with a rawhide by her
husband.