The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-10


Presbytery of St. Paul convened in the
House of Hope Presbyterian church.
Regular delegates were present from
number of local missionary societies,
and the attendance numbered at least
800 ladies. Mrs. r. P. Lewis, the
presbyterial treasurer, submitted her
report for the past year. The entire
Notwithstanding an organ and box
sent to Sisseton Indian agency-were
So, 21657, all of which have been dis
bursed, with the exception of $22, being
devoted to the foreign missionary work.
The family of Leonard Gewter, living
near Elgin, on Greenwood prairie, Wa
basha county has been suffering from d
mysterious disease, which on investiga-
ton proves to be trichinosis of very
pronounced type. The members of the
family have been eating more or less
raw pork during the winter. Mr..
Grewter died of the disease few days
ago, and several members of the family
are not expected to recover. The re-
ports that have got abroad have been
greatly exaggerated. It is understood
that the infected pork was brought
from Wisconsin by the family when
they moved to this state last fall.
The editor of the Northwestern
Chronicle has inside a compilation
showing the number, character and
circulation of the publications issued in
St. Paul. The statistics are as followes
N,,,,o 1,o,, nc 1o;11 e..
10; monthly, Z; total, 80. OF the
dailies, 4 are printed in English and 2
in Germon; Of the monthly publica-
tions, Is are in English, 3 German, 1
French and Scandinavian of month
lies, 6 are English, l Scandinavian
Three of the weeklies are devoted to
law, to church interests; 10 are news
papers and are classed as miscella-
neous. One daily and all monthlies are
classed as miscellaneous. Total;
English, %; German, 5; French, / !;
scandinavian, 3; church, IS
newspapers, Is; miscellaneous 1. The
following figures represent circulation !:
Daily, $685.; weekly, 81, 848; monthly,
1880.
Messrs. Dunning and Fay, of St..
Peter, are purchasing 5000 head of
young cattlein the Minnesota valley for
B. F. Ferris of St. Paul, all of which
are to be delivered by the 1st OF May.
The animals will then be shipped to a
ranch in Montana, forty miles from the
line of the Northern Pacific. Messrs
Dunning and Fay will also purchase L.
500 additional on their own account
this spring.
At the st. Alexander hospital, New
Ulm, Sister Elizabeth, born Julie Blu
schausen, died recently aged fifty-one
years. She has resided in the United
States since 1877, and in New Ulm
since 1881.
Ole J. Johnson of St. Paul has just
returned from Norway and reports that
there will be a large emigration this
year from that country, butnot so large
as last year, as some sections of the
country are largely depopulated. Sever
al parties of emigrants, about forty in
all, will arrive within few weeks.
They all have money with which to
purchase land. Minnesota is the point
all are striving to reach. The reports
of financial depression in the East tend
to discourage emigration.
Mr.. W. D. Richardson of Garden
City Blue Earth county has twenty
head Of high grade Short Horn heifers
and has recently purchased from An:
derson & Elliot, Of West Liberty, Ia, a
young Short Horn bull Of stately
pedigree: