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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-17
STATE NEWS CONDENSED
Gov. Huhbard's Appointments.

80 dOvs uuUUArU,6 App0lnGln6nIS.&s
Thagovernor made the following sppoint.
ments on the 7th inst: The public exam
liner, Henry NJ. Knox; adjutant general,
@. NJ. MacCarthy; military storekeeper,
Joseph Burger; regents OF the university,
John 8. Plllsblry, Minneapolis; Kuute Mel.
son, Alexandra; u embers of the State board
of correction and charities, NJ. Meg. Dana.
st. Paul; y. ii. Berry, Winona; member of
the board OF directors of the institute for
deaf, dumb and blind, 81. A. Wilson, Fari.
bault; member OF the board of managers of
the State reform school, @. H. Petit, Mn
neapolie; members of the ,oard of trustees
of the hospital for the inasne, n. s. Strait.
Shakopee; Burr deuel., Quincy A. Barto,
F. Norrish, Hastings; members Of the state
board of health, d. W. Hand, St. Paul; @.
N. Hewitt, Red Wing: V. Smith, Duluth;
@. CreRyold, Vass; E. l. Davis. Mankato.
Members of state board of equalization
First district, F. 8. Christensen, Rush City;
Third, James G. Lawrence, Wabashs; Fifth,
N. B. Page, Mantorville; Seventh, James
Compton, Fergus Falls; Ninth, William
Rich, MARSHAL; Eleventh, Hugh Thompson,
Fisher. Fish commiss!oners-R. o. Sweeny,
Ct. Paul; D: Cameron, Il Crescent; NJ: w.
M. ": Glenn, Minneapolis; Charles +.
Wager. st. Paul; David Swain, Saltwater.
Board of auditors of the State Agricultural
society,". P. Clarke, St. Cloud; John
Byers, Hastings. L. Cowding, Rochester.
Those designated with an asterisk are new
officers; all Others are reappointed. =.
Capt. G. N. MacCarthy was born of IRISH
parents in Ont rio in 1916. He came to
the United States and St. Paul in 1870, after
having been admitted to the practice Of law
at Osgood Hall, Toronto. In St. Paul
Capt. MacOarthy, after being admitted to
practice, first engaged in the publication of
the Western Times. After five years as an
editer he resumed the law, at wLieh he has
says he is independent in politics, having
cast his first vote .or Horace Greeley, and
has voted a mixed ticket ever sixce. He
supported Gov. Hubbard in last falls cleo
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-17
Home Hints,

An ounce of nitrate of soda dissolved in
four gallons of water is quick and good
stimulant for bulbs, to be applied twice a
week after the pots are filled with roots and
the flower spikes are fairly visible. A large
handful of SCOT or about pint, tied up in
piece of old Canvas and immersed il the
same quantity of water for q day or tive
will furnish sale and excellent stimulant.
Bsstowing polite attention upon company
and reserving rudeness and Indifference for
person. There is fine distinction toSbe
drawn by which, the family shall know
that it suffers no loss of tenderness and
care; while the guest receives for the time
her rightful need of superior civiltes.
The use of the flesh brush night and
morning is recommended by the best ply
s;cians and is especially good in curing
rheumatism and neuralgia. It opens the
pores, quickens the circulation, and invig-
crates and strengthens the organs in vari-
Gus ways. It is particularly beneficial for
people whose employment keep them sit
ting most of the time.
CURE FOR CoENs-The following from
the Journal of Chemistry is worth trying:
"Soak the feet in warm water, pare off AS
much of the corn as can be done without
pain, and bind up the part with piece Of
linen or musl;n, thoroughly saturated
with sperm Oil, or, what is better, the oil
from herring or mackerel. After three or
four days the dressing may be found OF
soft and healthy texture, and lass liable to-
the formation of new corn than before
We have obtained this recipe from d relid
BILE SQUIRE which we cannot we'll doubt, az.
We publish it for the benefit of many read
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-17

Rev. John Meier will leave st. Peter to
take charge of the Catholic church at Red
Wing.
The annual meeting of: the State Agricul-
tural society will be held at the Metropoli-
tan hotel St. Paul, at 10 a. NJ, Tuesday,
Jan. %.
8 Abner Dwel1e, one of the. founders Of
Lake City, celebrated his seventy ninth
birthday recently, when there was family
reunion at his residence. .s
The supreme court denied the appeal on
the 18th inst, OF Eiward Columbus to file
an information for writ of quo warranto
against Thomas C.. Shepley. The latter
was elected clerk of thes district court of
Polk county in the fall of1SS2. Columbus
announced himself as candidate for the
position last falkland received all the votes]
cast-on the suppositiou that Shepley's"
term expired in the spring of 1884. Shepley
declined to stand again as candidate,
claiming that his term extended four years
from the date of his election in 1882. The
decision of the court affirms Shepley's
view of the matter.
The Crookston Chronicle says reports are
rife that 81. n. tHinman, Contractor and
builder, has jumped the town, leaving cred
itors sOrrOWiDg to the amount OF about ST.
009.
The first National bank ofSt. Peter has
declared semi-annual dividend of 6 per
cent. The present officers were re. elected.
The Nicollet County bank re-. elected the
old officers and declared a dividend of 5
per cent.
The official returns from the city of Aus
tia for 1894 shows births during the wear
70, 20 girl babies. 4S boy babies. and one
set of twins. Deaths during 1923, II.
The individuals interested in the water
power improvement have reo1ganized I'm.
der the name and style ofthe st. Cloud Wa.
ter Power and Mill company. and articles
of incorporation have been filed, with the
following directors: D: b: ssa1le. W. B.
Mitchell, J. W. Metzroth, J. E. Wing, n.
O. Waite, J. p. Hammond, j. e. West, J.
q. Smith, John Plates, w. F. Street, Julius
Domlnick, D. 81. Freeman, John Rengel, I.
F. Stevenson, A. Krae,ner, N. P. Clarke, A.
+. Robertson.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-17
The Private Life of Royalty.


An American lady who has been pass
ing so ne time in circle very close to
the crown in England sends some curl.
GUS and entertaining details of the pri.
vate life Of royalty to friend in tn s
country. She writes: "The personal
attendants of her Britannia majesty
have pretty hard life of it," They are
not so badly treated as poor Miss Burn.
ey was, when she went into bondage az
second keeper. of the robes to Queen
Victoria grandmother, but, 'staking one
consideration with another their, lot
is nota happy one. The Hon. Horatie
Stopford, a cousin of the earl of Courtown.
and one of the queens bedcha mber wo
men, is the queens favorite amanuensis
writing most of her letters and taking
down whatever she dictates, and as EFT
Quette requires Miss Stopford to stand
while thus engaged she passesswhole
hours sometimes writing at an upright
desk when her majesty happens to be
in an epistolary mood. On the recent
confinement Of the duchess OF Al any
the; queen, who took q very particular
interest in the event, never sat down
once from 8 in the morning until Is in
the evening, to the intense WEAKNESS
and disgust Of the unlucky
maids of honor in attendance.
The mother of thu duchess
OF Albany, the princess of Walde OK yr-a
mont, was equally provoked, as she
thought herself as much entitled as the
queen, il one may .nse such very low Ian
guage IN such q very high connection, to-
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-17

Persons who are in the habit Of be-
coming intoxicated and pleading that
fact, with the added claim that they did
not know what they were about, as an
excuse for any wrong-doing committed
while under the influence of liquor, find
the sand slipping from under his feet,
as it were, in the light of some recent
judicial decisions on the ssukjeet+x0 One
of the most important of these is that of
Judge Davis, of New York, who lately
held that the man who commits q crime
while intoxicated is equally guilty with
sober man com hitting the same
ofense, as he is responsible for the act
of getting drunk. This is both sound
law and good common sense. No man
has the legal or moral right to put him.
self in condition where he becomes
dangerous to community, and, if a plea
of drunkenness we're allowed as an ex-
cuse for crime, all an intending law
breaker need to do would be to fill him
self with bad whiskey before undertake
ing such offences against law as he might
choose to commit.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-17

Some idea of the degree to which
gambling is carried on in this country
may be may be formed from the state
ment that the sales of Gil at New York ,
Oil City and Bradford Pa, amounted to
4,249, 82O, 900 barrels-more than hun
dred times the entire supply of oil in
the world. During the last three months
the sales have been 100000 barrels
at New York, and 780, 900, 600 at Oil City.
and Bradford. Transactions nominally
involving quantities ofanv other articles
several times in excess ofany possible
supply cannot have any other than a dis.
turbing influence on business and
finance, especially when moneyed insti-
buttons, as it is charged, loan their funds
for the encouragement of such proceed.
ings. The MEN who sell or buy what
they enow they have not in their pos
session, and cannot obtain, as it has no
e xistence, do more harm'to the general
community than avowed gamblers.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-17
The Wife of tsMr. Speaker"

Mrs. Carlisle was present." writes
Philadelphia Press correspondent, 'to
see her husband assume his new digni.
ties, and sat with several other Ken
lucky ladies on the front seat of the gal.
lery reserved for members families,
which for several years past las been
.onl the Democratic side. Her initials
are the same as her husbands; her full
name. Jane Goodson Carlisle. As the
daughter of Major Goodson, of Coving.
ton, she was one Of. the bellies of Ken;
lucky, and rich enough to marry where,
the heart inclined She is an elegant
woman, with tall and supple figure, fair
and wavy brown hair, blue eyes, and a
clear, well-moaulated voice. She talks
well, and has as much of that indefina-
bic quality called presence as any lady
one meets here, and much graciousness
with it. She has been a favorite in her
own righEduring the four years her hus-
band has been in congress, and. her
Wednesdays receptions. at the Rigg
House, which she has decided not to
begin till January, are sure to be among
the leading attractions of the winter"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-17
The prime causes Of the miuor failures,
in city or country. are lack of capital and

The prime causes of the miuor failures,
in city or country, are lack of capital and
extrayagant personal expenses. When
the whole available capital of trader is
in his stock Of goods, for which pay
ment is due at stated periods, he is in
bad condition to live. through stagnant
period, to say nothing of violent panics
or revulsions. But little reserved cap.
ital would have carried bin through
safely and with redoubted credit. Men
start q business with some capital. They
buy large stock and begin trading.
Business is good and WHOLESALERS are
anxious to sell on credit. More goods
are bought, andsth proceeds Of sales.
put into d fine house, @r in real estate
until the creditor is actually carrying:
the debtor for months and sometimes
years, before the most inevitable reck-
,oning and imperative demand for pay:
nient is made, and the explosion startles
the community. Extravagant personal
expenses, eating up all the profits of
tolerably successful business, occur 30
frequently as to scarcely merit q word of
explanation. Such cases are quite as
fatal as to success aslack Of capital, and
are Of more frequent occurrence.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-17
Hints for Farmers.

Charles Francis Adams, some time since
opened Ere against the usual college eurri-
,ulum and has been the target of college
professors ever since. Mr.. Adams is right
BE does not undervslue the study of the
classics, but he opposes the loss Of time il
their study by men who will never use Their
There is no m1staking his position. He be.
lieves in the highest intelligence On the
farp, in the workshop, and in business life
generally, but he believes there are other
studies, far more essential to these nae
than Greek. and that our best institution
shoulI provide SUCH studies for taose who
desire them. Ana it must come to this.
Educate the man for his busines.-Ohic
Farmer.
According to the statistics given at the
National Butter, Chess and Egg Conven-
ton, whose annual meeting was held at
Cincinnati recently, the value of those
eroducts marketed in the United Stateis
during 1883 is more than $40 for every man,
woman and child in the population, not
including the $100, 600, 900 worth OF milk
and cream sold in a natural stste7 Yhe
eggs received in New York annually De
worth nearly as much as cheese, half as
much as the butter and three times as
much ss the poultry.
Those who live in cities and villages
where small garden or yard is attached.
can easily keep few fowls for their own
use, and have fresh eggs and chickens for
the table at very little expense. From the
kitchen come the choicest scraps best
adapted to the wants of LAYING hens and
growing chickens. In turn, or almost
daily, there ere bits of meat or grease from
frying, vegetables of all sorts, cooked pota-
toes, bits of bread, rinds of cheese, rice and
other kinds of pudding that are seasoned rs
taste AID highly relished by beth young
and old fowls, and relieve the monotopy Of
grain food, and go q good way to keep
them in thrift and laying condition,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-17
. At omssa reoeatly Ben Harrison's son
wedded Miss Saunders.
Casualty Record.

The bodies Of Capt. Thomas, his wife and
Eve Of the crew Of the bark Eimira, were
washed @whore on the 18th inst, on the
barred reef which stretches from life saving
stations No. .1s 60. q on the New Jer-
sey coast. The crew of the scalon heard
the bark's guns early on the 9th. A few
m0meat's later the vessel struck the reef
head. Six or seven attempts were made to
shoot . life line to the sinking ship but be-
fore the. line could be made fast the sea.
the vessel broadside upon the beach. 1t
was only the work of few minute to
crush her in thousand pieces, and all on
board, including the captain, wife and child
and eleven seamen, were lost while plainly
visible to the coast guArdsmen before the
swollen sea swallowed them up.
The hominy mills of Bacus & Co., Indian.
apolis, were burned the 18th. The build.
ing and machinery were owned by Plum
mer g. Co., of Philadelphis, whose less is
S15, 600; insured for $4,000 in Eastern COM
panies. BacKus & Co.'S loss is $1,000; In
sured. >
A large smeunt of wreckage from the
lost steamer Manistee has come ashore pear
Point Mammanse, Lake Superior. Among
it was the whole of her upper cabin and
numerous life preservers and pals.
Morgan Machainer, a railroad ticket
agent of the Connotton Valley at Hartville,
Ohio, was killed by spring gun which he
bad set to catch a ticket thief.
The funeral of identified victims of the
convent fire who were residents of Belle.
vile, ILL.,, took place on the 10th.
The Baptist church at GAINESVILLE, Wis,
burned on the evening of the 18th. Loss
$40, 900; insurance not known:
A family of eight negroes were burned to
death in North Carolina.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-17
Capturing the Gar.

Minister Hunt and his family reen r
tered their trim little home on Rhode
Island avenue and went to st. Peters
burg. The story goes that Hunts first
Jew months at the court of the Gar
made him homesick. EVERYBODY was
wonderfully polite to him-almost as
polite as himself, in fact; but he didn't
seem to get on. Perhaps it was his OWL.
frigidity, intensified by the Russian at
mosphere. At any rate, our minister
couldn't get into confidential relations
with ANYBODY, and the story goes that
il fretted him. He. was growing thin
and ua1e, when, one bright morning.
he received q cablegram from New Or
leans informing HIM that Don Jose.
Domingo, a rich tobacco importer who
had been hisclient and friend, had died
leaving him his entire estate. Hunts
heart 1eaped for joy. Not because he
was to receive u legacy in money or
lands, although he knew very well the
importance of such an addition to his
slender fortune; but because he remem->
bered Domingo's wine cellar and some .
particular wines that slumbered IN its
recesses. The Car loves rare old wines
and SO do all the Russians. Minister
Hunt recalled golden days at the dead
Seniors house. when he had seen on the
table wines that were more than cen.
tury old. He smiled all over as he
Thought of the sherry made Oh Don Do.
mingo's ancestral estate in Spain, whis,
he had brought with him when he was
exiled for his adherence to the freten.
der: sherry fifteen years old, mahogany
colored; sherry fifty years old, pa'e 4nd
clear as amber, and with bouquet That
filed the room with romance and poeHy.
Then he sat down at his desk and re.
Piled to the cablegram in some such
terms as these: ''Send me cask OF Do
mingo's lOO-year-old sherry" Then De
waited smilingly: Presently the sherry
arrived and was bottled. Then the Min
lister gave one of the incest dinner ever
given in St. Petersbu re. He got the
together a number of prominent
dignitaries, including some OF
the cronies of the Gar. At the proper
moment be made the guests acquainted
with Don Jose's century sherry. They
were preceptibly pleased. They were
kind enough to compliment. One ofthS
cronies remarked half au 1ibly that the
Car must hear of this. When the Car
had heard Of it, and had expressed or
intimated half desire to hear more OF
it, Minister Hunt contrlye to get bot
tie of it to him in very pleasing way.
It was not long before the Gar gave tie
ter Lad the pleasure OF Receiving sradV
full compliments on his ability as con-
noisseur. His Magnifcence was K1
enough to ask half facetiously whether
the world held any more of that won
derful wine. And then the conversation
drifted to other matters, and every min
ute the Minister got nearer to the Car.
The Car has tasted the century sherry
since and our relations with Russ;s
continue to he of character that is mu-
tualy NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Re-
orr1
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-17
The Raid on the Treasury

Washington Special: Although the Forty.
eighth congress has been in actual session
only fourteen days, and there has been but
one call Of States in the house, the bills
already introduced would if enacted, absorb
all the surplus revenues of the government
for several years to come. No regular appro-
priation bill has yet been reported, but
appropriation direct, indefinite, implied OF
oblique. Bills have been introduced to au-
thorize the purchase of ground and the erec-
ton of sixty public buildings in thirty three
States and Territories, including the District
Of Columbia, the cost Of which. 50 far az IN
The larger items are: $500, 900 for a site for
and $500, 900 to commence the construction
of q congressional library in Washington;
$500, 900 for building for the general land
office; 5000, 900 for hall Of records, and
appropriation at $777, 5S8. IS is also asked
for to complete the capitol terraces and stair.
ways and $4,000 to remove the Bartholdi
fountain, making total of So, 1852, 58S. 90
for the national capital The sum Of
ST., 200, 900 is required to establish mint In
New York. 500, 900 to purchase site for a
postofice, courthouse, etc. in San Francisco;
1850 900 for a building to accommodate the
United States; courts, pOstOffice, pension
office, ETC., in Manchester, n. H.; $3.50, OO0
each for similar buildings in Lexington, KY,
ana tOIG SlnlG0, AK, anu sPZUO,UUU oaCu
for San Antonio, Tex. and Jacksonville, Fla.
3 SOME PRIVATE BILLS.
The bills for the relief Of individuals and
corporations call for about 81 Q, 600, 900, but
this does not include large number Of
claims, virtually vutlawed, which it is pro-
posed to refer to the court of claims for ad-
Indication; neither does it embrace claims
for pensions, arrears of pay, bounty etc,
that have been rejected by the executive de-
partments. Altogether it is probable that
$25, OOO, 900 will barely cover the demands
Of relief SO far presented to the Forty eighth
congress. Some Of the relief bills are what
florists would call shardy -perennials.s No
amount Of freezing out impairs their vitality
y The following Is q reorganization of the
amounts to be asked for ct the next session:
Public bull dings and grounds So 000, 600 OF
River and harbor improvements. 6000, 900 o.
Public education. los O00, 600 Q
New bureaus, commissions, etc.::.... Loo, 900 o.
Soldiers Home in Kansas. =. 900, 600 O.
Equalizing bountieslo 100 900 q
Pensions (estimated) J. =. =. :. 600 OK
Prize money etc y. $685. GA A
5Deserters, nurses, etc (estimated1... 2250,O000
lestimated) ). :. !. 100000 q
mated. 3. !. 1o,O oo, 600 q
Private bills (estimateO %, 600 OK
State claims (estimateD 80, 900 900 OF
Drawbacks rebates, etc. ,976, $40 81
Miscellaneous items testimatedl s, 900 600 W
Z ~. x~ko eKnfn NJ
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-17
Crimes and Criminals.

At Sycamore, ILL.,, two supposed grave
robbers, Waterman and shinkle, were ar
raigned the 9th. waived an examination
and were committed in default of bond.
Although abundantly able to procure bail
they considered It safer behind protecting
walls out of BARNS way. Another shock
ing robbery has been discovered at Rochelle.
The sheriff, while searching q college in
Chicago for the corpse of old Mrs. Hoyt,
discovered the body of young girl. An
investigation of graves at Rochelle proved
the body to he that of Miss Craft, an old
schoolmate friend of 6h1nkles. Hall and
Ucffey. the first parties arrested, have been
released. 1t being proven that they were only
teamsters, and have given valuable in.or.
nation.
John Jarvis, the murderer of Claudlus ".
Bonney, was hanged ON the 18th inst, at
Princess Aune Court House, Va. He said
that he ,elt at the time Of the murder an
he could not resist, He went to the scat
fold, calm and collected. His neck was
broken and death pataless. ssssS.s. : :;
Unrequited love caused Miss Johanna
OFT to shoot herself*at Erie, Pa, on the
nj ht Of the 9th inst. She was found in.
sensible, and says she wants to die because
her love for Max De1ier Is not returned.
The girl is an actress of considerable abil-
ity. She receAtiy came from Saxony. Her
recovery Is doubtful. 80
Newton J. shinkle, who, was captain Of
the Cornell crew when it went to Europe,
and was charged with selling out his as.
sOciAtee, Is the same man who has been
arrested for participating in the robbery
OF the grave Of Mn. Hoyt at Sycamore