The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-03-06

miscellaneous NEWS NOGeSs
Helena, Ark, settles $3.50, 900 debt at 50 cents.
Gen. Gibbon is in command CT the depart
ment of the Platte in Gen. o. o. Towards abb
sence.
The trustees of Dartmouth college have
voted to erect library building at a cost of
$4,000
Newport, KY, relief soup houses still dole
out J, 600 loaves Of bread and 5000 pounds of
meat daily.
All goods hereafter made by New Jersey
convicts will be stamped ttMade in the New
Jersey state prison"
Henry Ward Beecher said at high license
meeting in New York that it is impossible to
enforce total abstinence.
E. DERRICK & Co., e. DERRICK and J. II.
Nicholson), dealers in bags and Irvine, in San
Faber: Liabilities. $3S0,000.
Mrs. Roosevelt Schuyler of Philadelphia has
begun suit for divorce She charges her hus-
band with deserton. Both parties are widely
known in New York society.
In Boston beer saloon, with free drinks for
the crowd, wealthy New Yorker, named Col.
R. J. Fox, was married to Hannah j. Slverett,
on one days acquaintance.
The banks of New York have since Wednes-
day drawn SO, 1OO 600 in gold coin from the sub
treasury evidently in the belief that the yellow
metal is soon to leap to premium. :
Resolutions wereintroduced in the Mississippi
house, looking to the impeachment of Gen. J.
Argyle Smith, state superintendent of educa-
ton, on account Of his Incorporate use Of
whisky.
Joseph Duffree of Cleveland, Ohio, has
brought suit against syndicate of West Virgin
ia men, headed by ex-Gov. Farnsworth, to re-
cover $50, 600, the value of some land whose
title proves defective.
venstreforening has been organized at Eau
Claire for the purpose of collecting 81, 600 as
gift to Johan Sverdrup, the untiring leader of
the Liberal party in Norway. The plan is meet
ing with general fovor, and one man has sub
scribed $3.50.
Frank Young who was sentencedto be hanged
at Helena Mon, for the murder Dan Nc
Carly last July, has been respited by President
Arthur unit i]Dec 81, in order that his attorneys,
Vivian and Mayhem, can take his case to the
United States supreme court
Samuel McElroy, the well known engineer,
has let out the fact that the big Brooklyn bridge
is not entirly perfect. He says: "That the
cables of the East river bridge have very con-
siderably heightened is shown by the fact that
the suspender bands have been slipped nearer
the towers by several inches.
Further advices from the Cpur dAlene dis
trict confirm the opinions already expressed as
to the ACCESSIBILITY of waiting for better weather
before giving way to an ATTACK of the gold fe-
YER At present the cost of living is excessively
high; accommodations are extremely bad, and
the cold weather and deep SNOW preclude any
efforts in the search for gold. ~.
At San Francisco, two women horsewhipped
D. L. Regenberger, q prominent attorney. Re-
genberger was walking on Kearney street when
the pair sprang out of q carriage, performed
the deed, re-entered and drove away The
cause is said to be expressions of the attorney
resenting the intrusion of the women in his So
ciety at : Mard Gras ball the night before.
Two weeks ago Virgins, the weather pro-
phet, advised Canadian and United States pa
pers along the seaboard Of two heavy storms,
dangerous to shipping, that would happen in
the near future, one beginning the 9th OF Feb
ruary, and the second and greater OF the two
|. on the 18th of March. The first was true, and
Friday, the 20th, . blizzard almost unprece-
denied took place, and is now blowing
There were 2S7 failures reported to Brad
streets during the past week, nineteen more
than the proceeding week, which had one holi-
day; ~ three less than the corresponding
wsek of 1858, and eisht y-dye Mors thaa TIE l