The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-04-24
Kindred can prove AN alibi.

i 1TnDliSfeTS.
Kindred can prove AN alibi.
The boys in New York want
Arthur's scalp.
The Mississippi delegation is pro-
badly for Arthur.
Lincoln writes to Hon. Leonard
SWEET that lie is not a candidate.
Logan is madIer than halter be-
cause things did not work out as he
had planned.
Republicans are ungrateful. There
lies Kiefer, and noue so poor to do
him reverence.
Secretary Lincoln has refused to
permit the charges against Gen. Swain
to be withdrawn.
Blaine will need the Minnesota
delegation, and he ought to look after
matters here in the Fifth.
Oregon democrats held their con-
vention on the 18th inst. They go in
for tariff reform and the forfeiture of
unearned land grants.
The rival managers Of the white
elephant factions seem to have been
taking few hints from the Barnum-
Forepaugll row going ON in the
east.
There are intimations that Conkling
has experienced change ofheart and
will profess the democratic faith
for nomination for president. This
is important if true.
Mayo g. Clark, wholesale hardware
dealers of st. Paul. have temporarily
suspended. assets, $l55 900; liabilities.
$l35,000. NJ. L. Anderson, carpets.
has made an assignment, assets, $25,-
00G; liabilities, $3S, 900.
England, on Tuesday, was visited by
an earthquake, sensible over large
distric. including Essex and Snffolk
In a-few days O.Donovan Rossa will
explain how the, whole thing was
known to him month ago.
1t has been estimated that about
| 500 hundred columns of that highly
interesting publication, known as the
| Congressional Record. will be filed
up with speeches on the tariff bill.
This will be good news for the dealers
in paper material.
The Pioneer Press credits Blame
with the delegates from Stevens
county. While this may be true as
to the sentiment of a majority of the
republican voters of the county. their
representatives. the county conven-
tion refused to put themselves on
record to that effect.
The process of annihilating time is
still going on in transatlantic steam
ship trips. The Oregon, a new
steamer of the Williams and Gcion
line made the trip from Liverpool to
New York recently in days, 10 hours
and 30 minutes, being the. fastest yet
made across the ocean.
The debate on the tariff bill will be
the only chance for many of-the con-
gressmen to shoot off speaches.
and they are getting down to The
windy work in ordinarily fine form.
If flowers Of speech and rhetorical
reaching Will avail, the country may
consider itself reasonably secure.
The University of Edinburgh, the
..modern Athens" has conferred
upon our minister to the Court of st.
James, the degree of LII. ID. While
this cannot add to the lustre of his
REPUTATION, it is gratifying mark of
esteem in which our worthy repre-
sentative is held, in the most critical
court of Europe.
| The Pioneer Press goes in orexter-
mination. root and branch, OF all YES
tiges of the Kindres--Nelson unpleas-
antness, by an absolute disregard of
the Kindred factor. 1t is willing that
Kindred man may be seEt to Chi
cago--if he processes sorrow for his
sin. but under no other circumstances.
The way of the transgressor is fre-
quently difficult.
| On April 17th. New Jersey rcpub.
licans held their convention. Robe
son tried hard for delegate at-large
and then for district delegate, but
was left in bothinstances. Although
uninstructed the delegation is under
stood to be for Blaine. with Edmunds
rs second choice. On the same day
Delaware elected delegation with n
Blaine tendency Indiana too pro-
vides for her representation at Chi
cago with an unfnstructed delegation
having ssfavorite son" bias in the
direction OF rrison.--Tennessee did
not instruct her delegation.
! a writer in the New York Tribune
calls halt on the wheat-growers.
He says we are running RECKLESS
race of competition with the serf
labor of the world for the privilege
Of .sdefying rotation, reducing the
rate Of yield, and showing we can
carry wheat 5000 miles to market and
accept lower prices than any other
nation. In 1882, when the surplus
WAS the largest ever known. wheat
commanded Is cents per bushel more