The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-05-15
Knute Nelson has accepted.

hIut6 NGISOIl HIS uCCtptcu.
Col. B,b Ingersoll moves into his
$4,000 log cabin on Dorsey's ranch.
Jnly /.
OF the workers in the country, Al. |
per cent. are engaged in agricultural
pursuits.
The Minnesota delegation must
please not to forget that it is for
Blaine--probably.
The gentleman with the presilen-
tial bee in his bonntt is having a
slight breathing spell.
Cyrus III. Mccormick, head of the
great harvester manufacturing com
pany, died in Chicago on tie 18th
inst.
Jay Gould's present income is nine
dollars a minute, but there are those
who say he will be the next to go by
the board.
Some of the heavy capitalist mer-
chants Of New York city are chipping
into blind pool for president
Arthurs s benefit.
The .'Marplot of the woods is the
complimentary way in which Gov.
Gilmanis alluded to by the Minneap-
oils Evening Journal.
Senator Edmunds' bill to put Gen
eral Grant on the retired list with
the rank and full pay of general Of
the army, passed the senate on Tues
day.
because you tickled U.S. says the
Saltwater Sun to the Ramsey county
republicans, swell tickle you" and
then they fly Albert Schctfer for con-
gress.
Wall st. is not a second Appomattox
for Grant, at all events; more like a
celebration of the twentieth anniyer-
sary of the Wilderness. as the Phila-
delphia Times puts it.
1t appears that Boss Sabin can't
run the republican party of the coun-
try and the Saltwater concern too.
The former disgruntled body will
be asking for receiver too. soon.
The public was not allowed to get
on to the fact of the Northwestern
Mfg. Co. passing its January dividend.
for fear that it would initiate against
Senator Sabin's political prospects.
Tt is said that the Randall demo-
crats-those who opposed the Morri-
son bill, will offer to their country.
men, either by bill or Published adj
dress, an explanation of their conduct
during the recent struggle in congress
for revenue reform.
Mr.. Hewitt, cf New York, has a
revenle reform bill In committee.
Unless there is the probability of Il
decided majority on he side of reform
it would be useless to further agitate
the question. The republicans are
solid against any such measure.
Mr.. Scheffer us representative for
the Fourth district would be u most
agreeable change from The self-suffi-
cient Major General w. d. Washburn.
The latter gentleman can shortly go
into training for the q. S. Senator
ship-which he never will reach.
1t seems that Henry Willard will
not go to Europe as the representa-
tive of the Edison Electric Light en-.
enterprise, as it was said some time
ago, that he would. Rumor has it
that be will return to his old work in
the field of journalism, in New York.
Charles Conor, the eminent law
yer of New York, died at Nantucket
on the 18th inst. At the ripe old age
of four score years he leaves the scene,
the last of that brilliant cotere of
legal minds which for nearly half
century adorned the New York bar.
He was always Jealous democrat
and repeatedly refused to accept NOM
nations to the highest offices.
General Grant will have to try and
worry along on $4,000 Il year now.
1t is to be deplored that the most dis
tinguished citizen of the republic
should be so roughly treated, but,
the fickle goddess, whom men pursue
in Wall ST., knows not one from
another. and be he keene CT a
Grant, he is liable to be carried out
feet foremost, in the end.
The Inflated steamer State of Flor
ida was not the victim of dynamite
after all, as some of the nervous Eng
lishmen maintained, but of quite as
serious power in mid ocean-a col
lision, with the bark Panama of New
Brunswick. Both ships went down
almost Immediately, only forty-four
of the steamers passengers and crew
and three of the bark's being saved.
1t Is believed 135 lives were lost.
The republican national committee
finds itself in somewhat of predica-
ment, and some of the more tender
and conscientious members fear that
they may have to go out OF business
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