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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21
THE PlTH or THE NEWS
washln8ton Hswy.

A number Of bank presidents throughout
the country have written the postmaster gem
eral asking him to exclude T6ompson's Bank
Note and commercial Reporter from the mails.
He declined
The treasury department has informed the
British minister through the department of
state the Patrick Carney, now detained on
Wards island, N Y, as pauper, will be sent
back to the port from which he sailed Car
ney is the person concerning whom the Brit
ish minister wrote the state department few
days ago.
A report has been received at the treasury
department from the assistant treasurer at
New York showing that the total receipts at his
office during the fiscal year ended June 30,
1884, were $697, 813, 1877, and the total disburse
ments during the same time period 9699, 525,-
1877 The balance on hand July l, including
$125, 800 900 left over from the previous fiscal
year, was 3129, 679,713
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21
The gold reserve in the United States

The gold reserve in the United States
treasury is drained down very near to
the legal limit of the reserve; and when
that is reached the Treasurer must make
his payments in other funds, which
means silver. If the Sub-Treasury
here has to pay its balance at the clear
ing house in silver the banks must take
it; but it has been said that thirty days
thereafter they would suspend gold pay
ments. The fear of this has already
given rise to speculative contracts to
"call" gold OF given figure for the
rest of the year. AS soon as the banks
suspend gold payments, gold commands
premium, and deprecated silver be-
comes the common standard currency.
A bank president" name not given,
is quoted as saying: "There is more
danger from discussion of the falling
off of the gold in the hands of the Treas
urer, as it is likely to cause panic, than
from the operation of any law of finance
it may set in motion. He referred
to the propensity for boarding, which
inevitably follows the appreciation Of
metals over paper or one metal over an.
other used as calculating mediums,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21

Money never was so cheap in London
as at present. It was loaned week or
two ago at one per cent. per annum,
and the bank of England reduced its
rate to 2per cent. per annum. No other
State bank, except the bank of France,
has ever lowered its rate to 2 per cent.
and the bank of France has only done
so on two OCCASIONS, in 1877 and I'm 1879.
But the present is the tenth occasion on
which the bank of England has reduced
its rate to q 2 per cent. level. -Four
times in the ten, the. two per cent. rate
lasted from 378 to 483 days, but gener-
ally, only from 80 to so days. Two per
cent. not only means that the demand
for money is small, that the prices are
low, and that speculation is at a stand
still; it means also that there are many
securities which bankers have for the
time closed their doors against, as, for
instance, they have now done against
American and Canadian railways.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21
France and England on the question Of har

France and England on the question Of har-
boring active anarchists.
The funeral of Amalie Haizinger, the &C.
tress, occurred at Vienna Wednesday. The
crown prince and princess sent wreaths, and
the streets were thronged with people.
The London News believes the government
will not use any public funds for the purpose
of representing England 1T the New Orleans
centennial but will refer the matter to the Man
chester chamber of commerce.
At the Copenhagen medical congress DR..
John g Billings, assistant surgeon general Of
the United States army, in behalf of the Ameri-
can Medical association, invited the congress
to hold its next meeting at Washington in 1887
The anarchists of the British steamer Eliza
beth, arrested at Ottensen Saturday, were
handed over to the Russian Police. Socialist
pamphlets and papers were found in their
chests They refused to make any statements
and treated their arrest with cynical apathy
The result of DR.. schliemann's excavations
at Tiryus, turns out to be very important The
buildings he has discovered consists of pal
ace and two temples. The arrangement size
and position of these agree in the most re-
markable manner with those of the temple and
tic, and thus help to settle the date Of the lat
ter.
When Cardinal Newman left the church of
England he took with him several of his young
or Pensioners, among whom was Mr.. Arthur
Wollaston Hutton soon sfterward ordained
priest Mr.. Hutton, however, has not been
able to remain settled in his new faith, and
has been lately gravitating more and more
toward agnosticism, until finally he has re-
nounced the church of Rome and left the
service of the oratory and has joined the flock
brought together by the Rev. MoncureD D. Con-
way.
A Vienna correspondent of the Telegraph
says: One subject which will occupy the at
tention of Kalnoky and Bismack at their sp-
preaching conference will be discussion of
the German colonial policy. Bismarck op-
poses the constantly increasing tide of emigra-
lion to America American institutions, he
says, are not in harmony with those of Ger
many, and emigration to that country adds
nothing to Germany's wealth, while it tends to
undermine the traditions of monarchy. Bis
marck hopes to open new field for colonial en-
terprise, and so prevent the ultra independent
Anglo Saxon element from absorbing the Ger
man element
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21
Double TRAGEDY In Illinois,

Florence Mitchell, the seventeen-year-o
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Il. H. Mitchell of
Mayfeld township, three miles west of Svra-
cuse, ILL.,, was found about 2:30 o'clock We'd
nesday by young lady neighbor, lying in the
cellar IN pool Of blood, her clothes on fire and
is Taylor, hired hand, twenty eight years Of
age. He had lived there on and off for a couple
of years, and there had never been the slight
est attachment between the murderer and his
victim A posse of nearly two hundred men
were soon in search Of the murderer, and found
his heart The only theory for the killing is
that he made improper advances, and being re-
pulsed, threatened to kill her; that in her
flight she went through the cellar and was shot
before reaching the outside door. Then, to
cover his crime, he set fire to her clothing and
fled. The theory of the suicide is that he
feared the vengeance of the mob which he fell
sure would soon Overtake him
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21
Personal Points.

Camille Farcy, editor OF La France, is dead at
Paris.
Eli Kinney, one of the oldest Cincinnati
bankers, died at Newport, Ky.
Senator Sherman is almost always sure of
the odd trick in whist, if not in politics.
Ben Buffers income is 800, 600 per annum
Newburyport gave Greedy a rousing welcome
home
D. F. Sullivan, who died recently in Pensa-
cola, left 500, 600 in government bonds to his
two daughters.
Mary Heeyburne of shantytown, New York,
q seventeen year-old girl, has rescued seven
persons from drowning.
William E. Lef1ingwen died at Lyons, Iowa,
aged sixty three He was very prominent in
and i1sa o. me me sen
trict He was widely celebrated as a criminal
lawyer
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Guarding Uncle Sans Honey.

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It is often said that tsif thieves are de-
termined TO get in, they will do so in
spite of all your precautions. That
may be true of private houses, and Or
binary banks, but that there is such q
thing as perfectly guarding valuable
property is shown by the fact that the
great public treasures are seldom mo-
ested by burglars, and one at least has
never had 80 much as an attempt made
upon it. The resources of q whole coun-
try are needed, however, to pay for such
expensive protection.
A party of Englishmen who recently
visited Washington expressed surprise
at the absence of guards at the Treas
why" they said, sat the Bank OF
England the military is always on duty,
and to get past it and into the building
is worth ones life, unless he has author.
ity. Here don't see guard"
But there are guards, and plenty of
them, only they don't wear red coats
| and parade up and down the street in
front of the building.
"Do you see this armory?" said Capt.
Cobaugh, the chief of the force, to your
correspondent to-day, opening door
as he did so and displaying line after
line of loaded revolvers. They were of
the largest and best variety known to
the military authorities.
1--WE have sixty men armed with
these" he said, "and nearly all old SOL
diers. I should like to see any success
full attempt to rob the treasury. These
men are divided into watches. and are
on duty in all parts of the building at
all hours. After the force of clerks and
officials goes home at night. our officers
enter and inspect every room, see that
the safes ane all locked, the heating ap-
paratus all right and the water turned
off.
IF safe is found unlocked, man is
put in charge of it, and the person whose
duty it was to see it locked is sent for.
OF course it does not often happen, and
the man who does forget once to lock
his safe, does not forget it twice; but
occasionally we do find one open. Then
after the rooms are inspected and the
guard set, the lieutenant makes his
rounds every two hours, and the watch
man patrols his beat every fifteen min
utes or oftener."
"Has there ever been an attempt, sue
cessful or otherwise, to rob the Treas
ury?"
"Never. It would be an impossible
ity."
Col. Webster, Chief Clerk of the
Treasury, is at the head of the watch,
though Capt. Cabaugh has the personal
direction of their movements. They
are all inspected, and are liable to visits
at any time of night from the Secretary
or his Chief Clerk
Treasurer Spinner, it is related, once
found himself in very nervous state of
mind at night, and unable to sleep,
having an indefnable feeling that some
thing was wrong at the Treasury
He tossed about awhile unable to
sleep, and finally dressed himself and
started for the Treasury, to be met by
messenger coming to tell him that
safe containing millions of dollars had
been found unlocked. It is sai'l that
he always slept in the building after
that, and always visited the safes in per-
son before retiring to see that they wero
locked. Perhaps it was his nervous
ness over the fright that made his sigma
ture so crooked. American.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21
Life at the fashionable wa

Life at the fashionable watering
places is said to be more demoralizing
to children than to many parents. There
are many ridiculous accounts of their
society pretensions. Little ones of eight
or ten, Or even younger, are dressed in
foolish fimsy costumes to crafty their
mothers vanity, and are allowed to join
evening parties and share all festivities
with their elders. it's not strange that
they lose the brightness and freshness
of childhood and become self-conscious,
assertive and prematurely developed.
The same may be said in a degree, of
hotel life generally where children are
often petted to DEATH"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21
Record Of Casualties.

At New York, the Adler veneer works and
Harris perforated chair seat factory burned.
Loss, $4,000.
Milten J. Rowe, a brakeman on freight train
running between Mitchell and Chamberlain,
Oak, died at Mitchell from injuries received
on the side-track at Yorktown.
Mrs. Andrew sminehart and Mrs. Frank
shaeffer, while out pleasure riding, were run
into by a passenger train on the Lake Shore
railway, two miles east of Elkhark Ind, and
were killed. The horse was all cut up and
the buggy smashed to pieces.
A Houston special says: An incendiary fire
at Lampass destroyed the business portion Of
the town; loss not estimated. J. T. Malone,
banker, and S. D. Chittenden, merchant, were
the heaviest losers The town experienced
fifty thousand dollar blaze couple Of weeks
ago.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21
The canvass in Maine does not IN

The canvass in Maine does not con-
Germ simply the State and Federal tick
cts. The question of an amendment to
the constitution absolutely prohibiting
the manufacture or sale of Intoxicating
liquors is also to be voted on in Sep
TENDER. A prohibitory law has been
OH the statute book for a generation,
but the principle has never been for
mally incorporated in the constitution.
The prohibitionists attach great impor-
lance to the insertion OF such a formula
In the organic law of the state, and the
amendment will undoubtedly be adopt
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21
TITS not a matter of so much surprise

TITS not a matter of so much surprise
that 1000, 900 letters should annually
20 astray in this country when one con-
siders the many towns of the same
name. For instance, there are in the
United States Philadelphias and 6
Pittsburgs, while the records of other
cities is as follows Brooklyns, 18; Bos-
tons, IL; Baltimores, 5; Buffaloes, Is;
Burlingtons, II; Charlestons, II; Chi
cagoes, A; Cincinnatis, 8; Clevelands, 10;
Columbuses, 10; Daytons, Is; Detroits,
s; Indianapolises, 2; Louisvilles, 10;
Lowells, Is; Memphises, 8; Milwaukees,
3; Nashvilles, "A; Omahas, s; Portlands,
"a; Quincys, Is; Richmonds, %; Spring
fields, Is; St. Josephs, IS; st: Louises,
4; st. Pauls, IL; Toledos,7; Washing
tons, 80; Wilmipgtons, II, and Williams
burgs. Is.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21
Four Worlds q 30 Seen.

From the New York Sun. sEz
-Four of the worlds, that, together
with the earth, are lighted, warmed and
governed by; the sun, can now be seen
at the same time in the evening sky.
Venus appears in the west, long before
twilight ends, so bright that no one can
fail to recognize her. In q line stretch
ing up the eastern slope Of the heavens
are Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, Saturn
being highest and Mars bringing up the
rear. At the same time the ma ority OF
the first magnitude stars visible in this
latitude are above the Sirius,
the king of the suns, placed beside
which our sun would be almost invis-
ible; Rigel concealed in whose flashing
white rays the telescope reveals little
star of the purest blue; Betelgeouse,
which glows in good glass like fiery
topaz; Procyon, whose stag
gering motions have shown to the eye
of science the existence Of a dark star
close to the bright one, although no
telescope has ever yet caught CLEAN
of revealing light from it; Aldebaran,
the rose hued star that marks the eye of
Taurus; Capella, rs white as diamond,
and several others less brilliant.
A practiced eye quickly distinguishes
the planets before named from these
stars, but when telescope is used the
similarity of appearance which some
times puzzles the observer with the
naked eye at once vanishes. The stars
remain only points of dazzling light,
even with the highest powers, while the
planets lose their resemblance to stars
and shine in the telescope, even with
low magnifying powers, like moons:
Venus now resembles the moon when
near her first quarter. Saturn appears
as round globe, surrounded by broad
flat ring. Jupiter presents his great
oval face, streaked and spotted like a
harlequin, while his four moons circle
around him, their motion being easily
perceptible during single evening.
Mars shows the glittering snow fields
around his poles, and the outline of his
continents and seas, covered sometimes
by clouds.
A few years ago there was an extraor-
binary CONFUSION of Jupiter, whose ef-
AeCUS mere SlloWu ny Iue ouuIAoA "l,p0
ance upon the planet of a fiery red spot.
which covered an area equal to the whole
surface of the earth. Lately this spot
has almost completely faded from view.
but other singular spots have made their
appearance, and the surface of the equa-
torial regions of the planet seem to have
undergone similar shifting toward it's
south pole. 1t is most interesting to
watch these gigantic commissions OF
Jupiter, for it is evident that in that
planet we behold globe which is now
undergoing some of the vast physical
changes dimly limited at in the begin
ming of the the book of Genesis as hav-
ing preceded the qualification of the
globe upon which we dwell.
Saturn, too, has of late exhibited in
dications of the operation of enormous
forces which show that it is in condi-
ton very different from that of the earth.
A new belt has appeared near it's equator,
which can be seen with comparatively
small telescope, and which strikingly
recalls the appearance ofthe belts OF its
giant brother Jupiter.
The astronomers have only begun the
conquest of these worlds.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21

About Wednesday morning fire broke out
in the drug store of Brookings l. Flemming in
North East Pa and spread rapidly. In reply
to call for assistance steamer was sent by
the Erie fire department., it was several hours
before the fire could be got under control, and
the business portion of the town is now in
ashes. Among tho blocks destroyed are thosr
Of Towns, LOOMS, Hal, Belknap, the Union
terrain church were mostly fine brick buildings,
built since the fire Of 1871, when this same
district was burned over. Over two thirds Of
the business portion Of the town was destroy
ed, including the best buildings In the place
The total loss will probably exceed 100000
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21
Railroad and River News.

The Manitoba railroad will soon put into ef-
feet the order now issued to make quite re-
DISCOUNT from present figures has not been
given out, but Is understood to be liberal
This measure is the fulfllment Of the prom
ises made last winter by President J: ]. Hill
and General Manager Marvel, to the COM
mittee Of the Grand Forks convention and to
the Moorhead delegation committee. The re-
duction in rates applies to nearly all the Sta
tions on the lines Of the Manitoba system.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21
POPULAR Personals,

Miss Phoebe w. Couzins, famous as
a lawyer in St. Louis, is the leading
advocate in advancing the claim of Miss
Anna Ella Carroll, whose alleged Hug-
gestions that the Tennessee River and
not the Mississippi was the key of the
war in the Southwest led to the adop-
ton of the Tennessee campaign plan in
the civil war. She wants money for it
now.
A German writing in one of the Ber-
lin papers of his campaigns makes the
this battle we lost the brave Captain
Schulz. A cannon-ball took off his
head. His last words were, Bury me
on the spot where fell"
David n. Strother, who was once on
Banks staff, and is by courtesy colon
ell, has been United States consul at the
city of Mexico long enough to have
been forgotten as the delightful Porte
Crayon" of twenty years ago. But he
is coming home in May, and will again
take up his pen and pencil.
The Grand Duke Alexis, who was
only lieutenant when he visited this
country a few years ago. is now high
admiral of the Russian navy. He is
going to England in May, partly to see
his sister, who is wife of the duke of
Edinbnrg, but more to inspect the la
test improvements in the British navy.
yards.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt. Brit
ish Home Secretary who married a
daughter of the historian Motley, has Sc
cured a very favorable lease of crown
lands in the New Forest near Lyndhurst,
and will build thereon fine country
house with surrounding extensive
grounds and gardens.
Mrs Eugene Hale has left Washing
ton for Ellsworth, Me-, where the Sen
ator has just finished magnificent
house on the hill overlooking the town
and commanding view of the coast,
with Mount Desert and other islands.
The announcement is made in New
York of the engagement of Mrs. Frank
Leslie, widow of the publisher, to the
Marquis de I.uville of France, The
Marquis is an Anglo-F renchman, born
in England and inheriting his title from
the ancient house of Oliver de Lourn-
court He has a European reputation
as poet and painter. Mrs. Leslie "2l
continue after her marriage as before
the active personal supervision Of the
business with which she has been linden
titled during the five years of her widow
hood.
The Bishop of London has suspended
the Rev. H. F. Limpus, vicar of Twick-
enham, for three years, for drunkenness.
-Cablegram. "Loo-ee ERE Li,npus,"
says is Ludship, the Bishop, "hif ye
muss get drunk h'Ill give ye three yares
fur rattlin' spree, han then hi wants
We to COON back han tend to business,
fur ye knows has 'ow there ere goings-
on how yourn bcant the 1oight thing no
'ow."
DeLesseps, until late years, never
neglected an ice cold water bath every
morning in order to maintain himself in
vigorous health. Latterly, however, he
has taken to horseback riding, and one
of the interesting sights in the Bots de
Boulogne nowadays is the great isthmus
piercer galloping amid his eight chill
dren, boys and girls, mounted on smart
little ponies. =
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21
Murder 1t Clenden1n, Mont.

Fort Benton, Mont, Special, 18th: A terri
BILE murder was committed at Clendenin, Barker
district, on last Friday evening. It seems one
Murane was suspected by Pete McDermott OF
being too attentive to his wife. McDermott
accused him of it, and the result Of q confer
ence on the subject seemed to be amicable to
In the evening McDermott sent for Murane and
his sister to come to his house. Directly upon
their arrival McDermott fired four shots into
Muranes body, killing him instantly. The
deed was committed in the presence of McDer-
motifs wife and the sister OF the deceased The
poor show for my 1ife" The murderer has
fled, and up to this time has not been cap
tured
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21
Death Of the Duke Of wellington.

A disaatch from Brighton Eng.) says:
scrhe duke of Wellington dropped dead hero
recently while entering train for London.
Arthur Richard Wellesley was the second duke
death Of BIS father, the Iron Duke. He wa
born in 1903, and his only title to distinction,
aside from being the son Of his illustrous faith
er, was gained from bis work In editing hii
fathers memoirs and supplemen tary dis.
patches. The heir TO the title is Henry Wei
lesley, > nephew Of the duke just Diseased ~
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21
All our presidents have not been rich

All our presidents have not been rich
men by any means. Gen. Grants $500,
900 makes him the richest ex-president
since Buchanan. Mr.. Hayes has, per-
haps, 300, 900. Neither johnson nor
Lincoln had over $50, 600; Pierce went
in the White house poor, but had about
$5O, 900 going out; Fillmore and Taylor
were in independent circumstances, but
never rich; Tyler was bankrupt when
he was president, married q fortune
afterward, and lost all in the war; Polk
was worth $3.50, 900; Andrew Jackson
had nothing but his Hermitage" Ad-
ANS was rich; Monroe died in debt;
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4 Fatal Tennessee Duel.

A Chattanoogs, Tenn, special says: A very
sensational tradgedy occurred at Emory Gap,
on the Cincinnati Southern railway, fifty miles
above the city, last night. About ten days ago,
q young man named Staples, made numerous
slurring remarks concerning Win h, Rogerson,
. drummer from Cleveland, Ohio. These soon
reached Rogerson's ears, and Staples, being a
cripple, Rogerson challenged him to fight 9
duel The challenge WAS accepted, and 10
o'clock last night they fought ut ten PAGES with
pistols, and both were killed.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-08-21

Leonard ". Davis o. New York, arrested for
forging the name Of Joseph Pulitzer, editor OF
the World, and Albert Pulitzer, editor Of the
Morning journal, to letters asking passes on
railroads and steamboats,, WAS sent 70 the PEN
itenfary for one rear. Z: I. I. Zs.