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National Republican., 1884-06-14
WHAT THEY SAY.
Comment, Wise md Otherwise, OF the
Newspapers OF the Land.
THE FOLLY OF KICKING.
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THE FOLLY OF KICKING
Dubuque Times.
Tho history of politics in this country
illustrates the folly of all opposition on the
part of distinguished papers or individuals TO
| n candidate SO unmistakably tho choice of
the pooplo as James G.. Blaine. To oppose
| him is TO assert that the people cannot be
trusted that they do not know what or whom
/ they want, that they are not ft to govern
this country. The paper that assumes this
/ attitude is bound to be "left." We saw the
| New York Tribune and the Chicago Tribune
try IL In 1872. The braying of their trumpets
was taken by Trumbull and Schurz and Sum
| ner for tho thunder of tho gods, and by
numerous smaller scribes and statesmen and
rciormers, who felt themselves for the timo
| Of immense Importance as political braves.
! And what were tho best of these leaders of
discomfort compared with their predecessors
| whose bones were then bleaching in former
| 1olds2 George Is. Mcclellan, hardly a name
now, was u popular idol when he undertook
to cut between straight republicani5m and
the democratic party. Andy johnson tried
it with tho prestige of republican character
In tho war, with n presidential term for his
opportunity and with tho immense power Of
the executive in his hand but who to-day
feels ono throb of respect for these balked
aud beaten trcksters2 Then came the chief
justice of the United States, presumably the
purost dignitary in the land, bearing n great
reputation with largo portion Of tho rad-
calism of the country, and seemingly on
general grounds candidate Of immense
availability; yet he also stood In his tracks
like Lots wife, after failing to get the demo.
cratic nomination, u monumental pillar of
political ruin The New York Times will do
we'll TO consider its latter end also. 1t is
unworthy Of the con nfldenoo and support of
republicans IL 10 permits its. personal hostility
4 to Mr., Blaine TO blind it to the consequences
to liberty, to the peace of the country, to the
financial and industrial interests, to all true
progress and reform that would result from
the disorganization or defeat Of the republi-
can party.
National Republican., 1884-06-14
AS TO BooMERANGs.
Oman 4 RepnbLicln.


At last we arc in position to demand JUS
tico. For good many years certain political
journals and Statesmen" have been claim ng
that something is the matter with Blaine's
record. What that something is they have
never said, and so long as he has not been q
candidate for national office they have been
permitted to continue the vagaries of denun.
citation. Now the case is different. Facts
are the necessary ammunition from this time
forward. Pictures of "tattooed" men will
not do the work. Unfounded illusions 10
inexpressible opinions are not the stuff which
votes arc made of. There il no American
politician, living or dead, whose record will
bear fair, close scrutiny than that of James
G. Blaine. Let us have the charges now.
Let the boomerangs be flung. Let us get at
the truth. Let us dismiss adjectives and
oXpletives, and devote our undivided atten-
tion to common sense statement of facts. If
thoro are any lies to be told--any Morey
letters to bo published-lot us have them at
once.
National Republican., 1884-06-14
THE OBLIGATION OF PATRIOTISM.
Detroit Post and Tribune.

There is now work for every sincere re-
publican to do. There are principles at stake
of infinitely more Importance than any candi-
date, and the duty rests upon tho friends of
Edmunds, Arthur, Sherman, Hawley, and oil
other aspirants, with precisely the Same force
rs upon tho friends of Blaine, to carry into
the contest the same yigor and decisiveness
that has characterized the preliminary cam
paign for Blaine. There is no room for
factions or contentious within the party. The
obligation of patriotism forbids. There must
be union of republicans for the sake Of the
republic.
JUST QUITE TOO DIsGUsTEDLY TOO TOO.
Springfield Republican.
One of the New York young scratchers''
of few years ago says the discontented re-
publicans will act with the democrats, pro-
Yided they nominate Cleveland or Bayard
bnt, as for himself, he concluded, signif-
cantly: "You may say that | am going to
Europe soon, and that think shall remain
abroad" The exquisite Mr.. Whitridge Is
cruel. 1t is as If Atlas should some day dis
gustodly drop the skies, aud lot them fall all
over us perfectly regardless"
THE WAY YOU LOOK AT IT.
Philadelphia Press.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-10

That trade rivalry is at the bottom of
foreign opposition to the American
hog" is in effect tacitly admitted on all
sides; and now that the French and
German parties injured by expectations
of meat from this country have been
joined by the corresponding business
interests of England, it will be instruc-
live to watch the manner in which the
opposition there is managed and devel-
oped, as compared with. the methods
pursued on the continent. So far, there
has been no outbreak of temper on the
subject between the two Anglo-Saxon
nations, and Minister Lowell's repre-
sensations have been listened to With
respect by the British public and parlia-
ment, although their tenor was similar
to that of Minister Sargent's statements,
which so stirred up the German gov
ernment.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-10
Casualties Of the Week,

Between the capes of Virginia and Delaware
the gale Of the 3lst blew sixty miles an hour at
times. Disasters were numerous, but only
meager details can be procured
The details of fires Of March show an aggre-
gate loss Of 1920, 600 Of this amount 81, 025,
600 wes burned up in ten fires. The January,
February and March fire record shows $37,-
25O, 0OO, being $500, 0O0 more than in the frs
three months Of 1885, and at the rate of s109,
OO, 600 for q year.
At Sleepy Eye, Brown Co., Mimi, Friday
morning fire broke out in row Of frame
buildings on the north side Of Pine street, oc-
cupiod by James Kneal, agent Of the Chicago
News company; H. Miller, hotel and saloon !;
James Mullenmister, feed store and dwelling
The t~o-story wing and brick building of Mel
son Bros. was saved, though in badly dam
aged condition The Offices of the Sleepy Eye
Herald and American Express company were
badly scorched-
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-10
Rail and River News.

The bondholders Of the Northern Pacific
Railroad company have applied to the house to
be heard before action is taken on the bill to
forfeit the grant of that company.
The gross earnings of the St. Paul l. Duluth
during the fourth week in March decreased
81, 1855. The earnings during the week were
81, 392l and during the same week Of 1888,
$780, 84 g.
The Milwaukee l. St Paul has just con-
structed fifty furniture cars The new cars are
81 feet s inches long feet wide and feet 1-2
inches high. and are solely designed for use in
transportation of furniture, light agricultural
Implements carriages and other bulky freight
Of that description
The Railroad Gazette says there was total
Of 10 accidents during the month OF February,
in which % persons were killed and $50 injured
As compared with February, 1883, there was a
decrease of "a accidents, Of 80 killed and of So
injured. The two months of the current year
to the end Of February show total of 2257 acct
dents, Is killed and 800 injured This is q
monthly average Of 1923 accidents, 40 killed and
los hurt February being considerably below
the average.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-10
Personal News Notes.

Mrs. Lsngtry goes to London in July, aud
will undertake provincial tour Of seventeen
weeks.
Fred Davis, sharon's private detective, gave
the San Francisco editors dinner April LIST,
Just before the senator went on the witness
stand for himself.
The will Of the late Gen. Weitzel devises his
entire estate to his widow for life, to go to his
daughter after the death of her mother.
Frederick Leypoldt, the well-known publish
or, formerly of the firm of Leypoldt l. Holt
of New. York, is dead. He was native of
Germany, and before the war conducted for
eign book store in New York, and in 1866 en-
tered into partnership with Henry Holt.
The remains of the late Minister Hunt are ex-
pected to arrive in New York on the steamer
Elbe from Bremen. Mrs. Hunt accompanies
them, and they will be received in New York by
four sons of the deceased, who will accompany
them to Washington. The interment will be
made in Oak Hill cemetery, Washington, to be
preceded by brief funeral services, either at St.
Johns church or at the cemetery chapel
Mary Anderson says she cannot guess who
inspired the recent slanderous paragraphs in
London She is indignant and angry and pro-
nounces them cruel and practical jokes. She
says she is suffering greatly from isomnia, and
is going away Saturday for few weeks rest
After this she will I'LL q three sweeks' engage
ment in Edinburgh, and then 60 to Venice In
September she will return to London. Count
Gleichen has completed bust of Miss Ander-
son, and George Boughton has painted her por-
trait.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-10
) 4 Terrible Ocean Disaster.

Sambro ledge, the spot where eleven years
ago $40 persons persisted at the wreck of the
Atlantic, is again the scene of another terrible
disaster: On Thursday night the steamer
Daniel Steinmann from Antwerp to New York,
while trying to make the Halifax harbor during
adense fog struck the rocks and sunk OF
ported lost Most Of the passengers were
steerage
. The latest in regardto the wrecked steamer
is that Of the crew Of thirty-nine and captain
and ninety passengers, only nine reached shore
the captain, five of the crew and three pas
sengers. These are still on Sambro island, a
short distance from the main land.
The Daniel Steihmann was built at Antwerp
in 1875. sShe was III feet long, "a feet beam
and 25feetdepth Of hold Her gross tonnage
was ], 78t tons Her name was formerly the
KhedYe She hrs bean running in the White
Cross slino ssiaoosl87& Eat one time she was
eonsiddrM avery lucky" vessel, but during
the 1a.t two Or three years she has lost this
This calamity 81 iig measure somewhat
pecnliarcoincidehka OHApril1, 1873, or eleven
years and two dsys preyious, to the disaster
above mentioned, The 1steaaner Atlantic, Of the
White Star line bound from liverpool for New
York on the rocks at the same
+ spot, eembro he'd md SO persons persisted.
|, Few persons SeoH for2et that dreadful dis
4 sster, NTH one OF twosexcephon the greatest
ono Of thekndin history When the report of
the Ahane1ss :fafe Hsg photographed throughout
/ he count many regarded q, an
5 April Tool was some ittle timesbe.s
fore peopISs lssrhSF the tuth, that il swssa
most lxmentable reality.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-10

~ The president has made proclama-
ton restoring to the pubic domain all
the Turtle Mountain Indian reservation
in Dakota with the exception of town
ships 1852 and 1853 north, range II west,
which are reserved for the benefit of the
Indians. This will open large extent
Of good country to settlers, and hopes
are entertained that in short time inn
mense Sioux reservations will also be
cut down to the absolute requirement
of the Indians, and the balance opened
to homesteads and pre- emptions. The
virtual blasting out of the big reserva-
tions is greatly desired and is sure to
come sooner or later, and the result will
be vast increase of population in the
Northwest, in sections that are now less
to civilization and progress. And the
absorption of the great Indian Territory
at the South is only question of time
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-10
PROF. NORTAROP.
He Finally Accepts the Presidency OF the
Minnesota State University.

He Finally Accepts the Presidency Of the
Minnesota State University.
Prof. Cyrus Northrop, of Yale, has accepted
the presidency of the Minnesota state UNIVERSE
ty at Minneapolis
The last week of February Regents Pnlsbury'
Clark and Davis met at the Fifth Avenue hotel,
New York, and decided to offer the presidency
of the state university to Prof. Northrop.
President, now Professor, Folwell resigned
over year ago, and some Impotence began to
appear with the unfavorable situation in which
the university was, placed. Fleeing. rumora
early in the interval were to the effect that ex-
Senator Patterson of New Hampshire was to
come to the head of the Institutions selection
that was not generally approved. 1t is under
stood that the selection Of Prof. Northrop was
practically unanimous with the board of regents.
Gov Pillsbury and Judge Clark went to New
Haven February Mth, and formally offered the
p' sition to Prof. Northrop, who took the matter
under consideration. March 9th Prof. North
looking over the university and gaining an &C
quaintance with the situation. It was stated
that the salary offered was 81 500, but that he
did not wish to give up salary Of $500 at
Yale at time when he had just completed a
fine residence, to incur tho expense attendant
on moving so far West During his visit here
reception was given Prof. Northrop by Mr..
=, le graduates and the prominent citizens OF
both cities The impression at the time was
that the offer would not be accepted Prof:
Northrop is forty eight years old, is a good
lawyer, brilliant orator, something OF poll
tician and has been professor of rhetoric in
Yale college twenty years. For twelve years he
was collector of the port Of New Haven
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-10
A Red Handed Murderer.
From the Bismarck Tribune.

EIOu1 Cu0 On 1AAOuuC.
It is enough to fill the breast of every
frontiersman with supreme disgust to
read of the manner in which Sitting
Bull was ionized in st. Paul and Min
neapolis. The old william is red-hand-
ed murderer of the deepest dye, yet he
was toadied to as if the laurel wreath
of hero crowned his brow. Even fair
ladies crowded up eager to clasp hand
upon which the life blood of women and
children is scarcely dry, and smiled up
ON him as sweetly as they would smile
were he an angel from the celestial
realms above. He was feasted and
dined and shown every attention, yet
ere month rolls by he may again be
at the head of his braves on the war
path, scattering rapine and murder
wherever he goes. A dungeon cell is
better for him than banquet hall, and
instead of being decorated with ribbons,
as he was in St. Paul, his theiving neck
should alone be decorated, and that
with a strong and trustyrope.
We would be pleased to have all who
are doing honor to this man in public
hall and would like to stand for an hour
and read to them some extracts from
Lack files of the Tribune, when Sitting
Bull was at the height of his power.
We would like to read some of the blood
curdling stories told of HIM during the
war in which the Custer massacre &C.
curred-stories that cause the heart to
stand still and the blood to grow cold in
the veins. We would like to show them
the true character of the william whom
they honor, and flood with their kindest
attentions and sweetest smiles.
The American people are quick to for
got. A very few years serves to obliter-
ate the memories of the most damnable
outrages, yet it is sad commentary on
the sense of Justice of the nation that a
man whose hands have been stained
with the blood of scores of innocent
victims, should remain UNPUBLISHED and
be treated as though he were hero.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-10
MlNIESoIl NEWS NOTES.
rhe Attorney 81 generals Decisions.

ss%
In response to question of Charles N.
Hewitt, ND. secretary Of tho state board of
health, Attorney General Hahn yesterday rem
dered an opinion to the effect that the state
board Of health has no power to enforce the
provisions Of the sections of the statutes a. to
the appointment or election of local health boards
or as1 to the securing physician as member
Of said board. An individual citizen has the
right to apply to the court for mandamus to
enforce the election of such boards. Mandamus
is tho proper remedy in such case. The max
ing of the annual inspection and report can be
enforced in the same way.
To NJ. B. Chadwick, county auditor OF Steele
county, the attorney general writes that coun-
ty auditor cannot pay bounty to any person
for killing wolf unless the claimant produces
the head of the wolf with the ears and scalp
entire and delivers it to the proper officer; no
promise or agreement can be substituted, and
to pay bounty without receiving such head and
scalp would be dereliction Of duty
To E. P. Peterson, county attorney OF Meek
or county, the attorney general writes that a
county treasurer, in all counties where the
valuation is loss than 81, 00O, 900, can receive
but 81, 200 in fees, and all excess thereof must
be paid into the revenue fund. The point
arose as to whether fees received on collection
on sales of school lands were to be included III
the 81, 200, and the attorney general rules that
they are.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-10
Crimea and Criminals,

Delano- Smith, Harvard law student,
stabbed himself tbirty-nine times in the breast
with pocket-knife He was delirious with
drinking. - !!
J.. From Fl. Smith, Ark, recently, twenty
nine United States prisoners, convicted of va
rious crimes committed in the Indian Territory,
were sent to the house Of correction at Detroit,
Mich.
Austin Keen has just served out ten years in
the New Jersey state prison. When he had
been in five years he sent fora girl he had
wronged and married her in prison. She and
her child lived there until he was released .
At Toronto Horace F. Atkins, aged thirty
one; shot his wife, aged twenty lone, and Hack
cit, street car conductor, whom he accuses Of
being too intimate, and whom he caught to-
gether at the house Of . friend. Both were
taken to the hospital where; Hackett's injuries
were pronounced fatal. Atkins Was arrested
Capt William H. Robinson, Democratic
candidate for Congress, Eight Alabama dis
trict, against Gen. Joe Wheeler, committed sui
eide ct Scottsboro, Ala, recently, by sticking
. pen-knife in his heart He had just returned
from an electioneering tour, and it is supposed
the excitement affected his mind.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-10
.SHOEOLOGY.
A Philosophical Cobbler on Character il
Old Shoes.

A Philosophical Cobbler on Character il
Old Shoes.
eyes, sir; they beat palmistry all hol-
low. Take yourself, for instance; in
your shoe see vacillation, irresolution,
fckleness, a tendency toward negligence
or evasion Of unpleasant duties, occa-
sional spells of moroseness. Show me
any persons foot-covering after two
months wear. or often less than that,
and will tell you that person tharac-
ter. If both heel and sole are evenly
worn level the wearer is clear.
headed, decisive and resolute
q good business man, valuable and
trustworthy employe or an excellent
wife and mother. If the outsids sole is
cut through the wearer, if man, is in
clined to be adventurous, unreliable and
spasmodic in all his acts. if woman,
she is predisposed to boldness and way
ward tendencies. If the inside II the
sole is cut through it indicates weakness
and vacillation in man and modesty
in woman.
"a certain young man who has pat
ronized me for years was keeping COM
pany with two girls, also customers Of
mine. I noticed that one of them wore
out her shoes on the outside of the sole
first, while the other stepped squarely
and wore down both shoes alike. I've
always had liking for the young fell
low, and knowing that he was waverinG
between the two girls, 1 took aim aside
one day and showed him the shoes OF
his flames and told him what have
told you. The result was that he. mar
ried the square stopper and was hIi5py,
while the other girl disgraced herself.
II can also tell something of persons
tendencies by the size of his shoe, the
breadth of the sole, the condition of the
buttons or strings, the amount of wea,
on the toe, the condition of the lining
etc. I would not advise friend tc
marry a girl who squeezes number
four foot in number two shoe, for sucl
one is apt to prove vain, affected anC
frivolous.
''Do I believe that character can b.
nodded by keeping the shoes properly
soled and heeled? Well, it has its iu
Auence. The gait of person is as.
closely connected with his disposition
as the expression of his countenance
though not so easily read by most per
sons. To continue the wearing of
shoe which runs over badly only tend
to confirm the habit in the person
walk.
Your job is done sir sorry I couldn
give you a better character. but trutl
is truth. and I never fatter. "-.rro
Standard.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-10
Murder at Agate Bay.

Sheriff McQuade has received telegram from
Agate Bay informing him that E. A. Mute had
stabbed and nearly killed cook in the saloon
and boarding house of Charles Larue at that
place, and that the criminal would probably ar
rive on the noon stage. Will MoQuade,
the sheriff. deputy, was on hand and arrested
Mute as he left the stage at the foot of First av-
the county Jail Mute had been at work get
ting out ties up ON the line of the Duluth & Iron
Range road, and went down to Agate Bay and
got drunk Thursday forenoon It was not long
after noon when he got into quarrel with the
cook, who struck him in the face. Then it was
that Mute drew knife and stabbed the cook
several times in the left side, so seriously that
his wounds are considered fatal. Mute started
on foot for Duluth, sleeping at the half -way
house Thursday night, and coming into Duluth
by stage, as stated. The name of the injured
man is not learned
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-10
The power of social influence

The power of social influence at
Washington, in debating appointments,
and even in affecting legislation, has
long been notorious. It has now gone
so far that open confession Of the fact,
and even an attempt to vindicate it, has
been made in Congress-. A bill was up
in the House the other day to relieve
Mrs. Patterson, the widow of Captain
Carlisle Patterson, of taxes for special
improvements in Washington, as had
been done beforein the case of Mrs. Kate
Chas. Sprague, and Representative Ed
redge, in urging its passage, said that
''from the high social standing Of that
lady, as well. as disposition to
dosexact justioe,n the committee had
devoted especial attention to the matter.
The Washington papers often show the
effect of social influence, but. The Star
IS to be credited with properly rating
the Michigan Representative for urging
a persons high social standing" Is .
reason for legislation In her favor. "
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-10
Squatting Business In iowa.

A dispatch from Sutherland, O'Brien county,
states that number of farmers from Central
and Eastern Iowa have arrived in that locality
and squatted on what is known as the overlap
ping lands of the Sioux City, st. Paul & Omaha
and Milwaukee & St. Paul railways. These
lands were never earned by the railroads and
ture passed an act ceding them from the state,
which held them in trust, to the general govern
ment in order that they might be opened to
actual settlers. There are about eighty-fve
thousand acres of land, which are now quite
rush of claimants Those already upon the
ground say that they were advised by the gov
ernor and secretary of state that they could
hold the lands by improving and living upon
them. They are therefore putting up buildings
ternity of O'Brien county the belief prevails
that the railroads will eventually obtain the
title and GUST them, retaining all improvements