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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01

The active part taken by General
Grant and many other Union soldiers
in behalf of the project for home for
disabled Confederate soldiers is one Of
the many tokens that the animosities
naturally engendered by the causeless
rebellion against the government are ut
.,terly, fading away. y Soldiers sare not
apt to bear grudges and those who
fought on opposite sides fespe@ courage
and make allowance for convictions
that were antagonistic. The Union men
do not bear ill will towards the
southern MASSES. Whey, know that
these masses were deceived and dra-
gooned by set Of able and unscrupu-
lous leaders, and that they were hurried
into the maelstrom of evil strife
ere they had time to reflect on
the meaning of such an, event.
In short, there is no. disposition nova
days tossist unsparhg condemnation
on, the whole southern people; they
have been bitterly punished for ,thsir,
folly, and the MANNED land mutflafed.
men who were blindly led into the snare
will be assisted to place sofrefnger by
the men who conquered them on the
battlefield: While neither The United
States nor any state can. vote pensions
to confederate soldi teyer, y4 ats fh-
dividna1a fon1 that. fIov a1,,en hony,d IL 20
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01
How He Does It.

Sharp Clerk-There is a beautiful
piece of goods, miss. It will make up
v cry handsome, and I am sure will be-
come either you OF yt6ur sister.
Lady Purchaser (blushing. Why
ahem-so it is. Yes, think can trust
to your judgment. Suppose you cut
me off 20 yards.
AS they are leaving the store-Why,
mama, why didn't you tell him I was
your
Lady-Hush. Do be still, Maud.
You chatter so continually.
Sharp Clerk Ito man at lace counter.
Did you see me work her? Twenty
per cent on that; it's that stuff left over
from last spring.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01

The Cincinnati newspapers are still
trying to exculpate themselves from the
charge of netting the late riot, but
they find it a difficult matter: The
truth is, that instead of the so-called
dangerous clessesY being at the bot
tom Of the bloody affair, it was respec-
table newspapers and respectable pub
lie speakers. Had they exhibited ordi-
nary common sense there would have
been no riot G. Undoubtealy the rot
will work reform where reform was
greatly, needed, but that could have
been accomplished without bloodsl1ed
and destruction of property.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01
General COMBINATIONS.

There is q professional highwayman
IN theyicinity Of Denver who has
great deal of funswith the people he
robs. Apious man on his way to church
on Sunday evening he robbed of his
contribution, and then made him dance
jig aud sing a tune. Catching no
toriously wicked wretch he made him
go down on his knees and repeat the
Lords prayer.
- AS an exact matter of fact, almost any
body's nose is one-sided. Photograph
ers, to whom this condition is made
strikingly apparent in the camera, say
that perfect nose is one of the rarities.
It often happens that they have to re-
sort to some device to prevent the
defect from showing in the picture.
AS the nose in a photograph is conisd-
erably larger in proportion than the
other parts of the face, it's peculiarities
will show for all they are worth.
The Iowa State University has been
turning out lawyers after an eight or
nine months term OF study, but the
legislature has just passed law which
requires as condition to admission to
the bar two years study IN the office of
| practicing attorney or in some repu-
table law sbhool, followed by an exami-
natiod by the members of the Supreme
Court
At the wells of the Caucasian petro-
leum-bearing strata the oil sells at 8
cents per barrel of forty gallons. Rus
sian petroleum is becoming a rather
formidable rival to the product of our
mineral oil-bearing region in the mar
kets of the east. In the small explored
district of the Russian oil region there
are already at least 400 wells, and there
are indications Of vast untapped sup
ply.
Little social clubs and societies have
become as thick as mushrooms in New
York. There is the Homer club, the
Browning club, the Elizabethan club,
the reading club and hundreds of others,
all of which are quiet little societies new
er heard of in print, but which number
some of the best people in their ranks,
and are very significant as showing the
tendency toward intellectual pursuits in
| social life.
The Camden girls have worked the
crazy quilt racket on the young men SO
hard that it is difficult to get enough of
them together for a dance. No matter
! where one of them is caught he is asked
for his necktie to use in crazy quilt.
The poor fellows haven't the nerve to
say no, so away goes the newest scarf,
which is good enough for the haber-
| dasher. The absence Of scarf is re-
garded as prima facie evidence that the
young man has had tussle with crazy
quilter.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01
About the Big Guns.

The development of cannon during
the last 80 years has been truly wonder
full. Improvement has followed i'm
provement in such rapid succession that
few minds have been able to keep pace
with the advance, and none have had
time to properly examine the collateral
questions connected with the subject.
The object in view i'll all these improve.
ments has been to Increase the effective
work resident in the projectile at the
moment Of impact; the Resident effect
i've work assumed being the energy Of
motion, or kinctic energy Of the projec-
tile. As Thu, IS half the product Of the
mass into the square of the velocity, the
task OF inventors has been to increase the
value of the factors which enter into it.
Consequently the mass has been in
creased from the old 42-pound shot,
which was considered q
heavy projectilc 30 years
ago, to the monster weighing ton,
which may we'll be considered the max
imum possible The other factor, the
velocity, has also been increased, and
although the increase has been relative
IL less, it has nevertheless been consid-
cradle; and the product of the two is
enormous. The result is undoubtedly
satisfa :tory, so far as power is con-
cerned, but it has been attained at
very great cost. Modern cannon of tho
first class are very expensive machines.
They might very properly. like some
of their ancestors, be labeled 'Cltina
ratio regum, for none but kings can af-
ford to own them. And not only are
they. expensive to buy. hut costly to
keep, and perfectly r1linous to use. IL
cannon lie essential to military outfit,
then war can be wagcd only by the
wealthy, and poverty and oppression
are the s,lrest foundations for throne.
British United Service.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01
Burning of a Great Mill.

Shortly after Up. NJ, Thursday, Sycamore
Mill No. l, in the northern part of Fall River,
Mass. ,caught fire in the basement The help had
just left. The flames climbed the elevator
shaft through the tower to the stories above,
and the whole interior of the mill was soon a
mass of flames The roof finally fell carrying
the remaining floors to the basement Then
the south half of the east wall fell with tire
mendous crash into the huge furnace of flame.
The mill is a total loss, which will amount tc
about 5000, GOO. The MILL was built in 1873
The insurance is 100000, distributed among
fourteen mutual companies. The corporation
has capital of $3.50, 600 and ran two mills
The mill destroyed ran about 10000 spindles
and 1000 looms, and furnished employment
to about 500 hands, with weekly pay roll OF
$4,000. The Sycamore was one Of the ten
mills struck by spinners twelve weeks ago,
and was one which efforts of the strikers were
mainly directed.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01
A Threatened Judge.

London Gable: Judge Denman, of the court
of the queens bench, who presided at the
O'Dpnnell trial, has heceived letter in which
the writer says that his damaging statement to
the jury as the total lack of intentions to shoo1
on Cary's part, and his determined efforts te
secure O'Donnells conviction, will cost him his
death at any moment. On receipt the judge
communicated with the police, who advised
that detectives be detailed to guard him, which
has been DONE The detectives mingle with
the crowd in tho court room where the judge
presides and closely scrutinize all Corners
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01

DR.: Gregory Of the civil service commission,
will in few days leave for the West, to hold
examinations for general department service
in various cities. Dates of examinations have
been arranged as follows: May 10, Des Moines;
18th, Omaha, 18th, Lincoln; 10Th, Denver; oath,
Topeka; 26th, Kansas City; 2Sth, St Louis;
10Th, Milwaukee,; 31st Chicago; June S, Du-
buque: 10th, Minneapolis; and 11th St. Paul
Minneapolis and St Paul have been added to
the list of postoffices coming under the civil
service rules, as over fifty clerks are now en-
Moved in each of those offices.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01

It is high time that some repressive
measures were adopted by congress in
regard to the sending hither of pauper
immigrants. Tho New England states
are being flooded with people of this
class, who will in time make their way
to all parts Of the country as tramps
and professional mendicants, or worse.
Two ship loads of these assisted" i'm
grants, numbering over one thousand,
were landed at Boston last week and
word is received that more are coming.
This is not a favorable time for such
additions to- our population, when all
industries are depressed and many men
idle
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01

to, when they were brought back to Atlanta :.
The wife confessed, and the husband agreed
to take her back upon Jenkins signing an
agreement. before Z notary to exile himself to
tHorida for tho balance of his naturallife IL,
In the trial at Long Island city of the negro,
murderer, Rugg, > confession made by Rugg;
Feb. II to his jailer vas read. In it he con5
seses to having choked Mrs. and Miss Maybee'
to death at Oyster Bay. and having beaten Mr.
Maybee. The confession is signed by Rugg.
This was the strongest EVIDENCE offered by the
prosecution The jury found Rugg guilty of
the murder Of Mrs. Maybee and daughter;
A motion for a new trial was denied He will
be hanged
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01
REPUBLICAN DELEGATES.
THENuBEE THUS FAR ELECTED. :

HEFNUNBEE THUS FAR ELECTED..
Thirty one states and four territories, in
Guiding the District of Columbia, have elected
delegates to the Republican national conven-
tion Of these the lists are complete in sew
enteen states and the territories named In
the subjoined table those classed scattering"
include Hawley (Connecticut), Gresham Qn-
diana), and Fairchild (Wisconsin). The classi-
fcation is the result of careful comparison OF
estimates from all sources, the intention be-
ing to give as fair an idea as possible of the
status of the delegates There are but few
contesting delegations. One of them is from
the Fifth Minnesota district:
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01

Mrs. Mary Freeman, prominent in Blooming
days in the yaaitand to,p.ya fine of *l5o
Tor shopliftlne 70 s;:. IF 49,.
F&S Thomas T.:Richards fsooorro,N. Mex, was
shot and killed at Murrysville, Mont by Wal
Ter Mcdonald, in dispute resulting from a
game of cards.
Deacon Cameron of Baltimore has eloped
with the pretty wife Of his .neighDor, John
Barr, leaving wife and two children, while
Mrs. Barr leaves three children. =;
The body Of F. 4. Mathey of Needham, q
watch maker doing business in Boston, Wa,
found in Charles river, near Needham bridge
1t is suspected case of. murder and ROBBERY.
At swainsboro, Ga, J, c. Coleman, a meroh=
ant, and j. F. Myers, editor Of the Itemizsr
resorted to arms to settle a difficulty, THU!
teen shots were fired and Coleman WAS shot
l in the abdomen; ~ 80
Thomas G. Boughton, superintendent Of tkc
First Methodist church Sunday School 1t Jacil-
boz, mich. secretary Of the Y N c. A. Sud <.
defeated candidate for alderman, has bcajl
found to be defaulter in the amount of en-
q. Huntsville, all, the Til. iii j Mr.. Prank Jana,
Tor completely i4 the Muscle Shoals robbery Z
1881 was Concluded on Friday, the 18th, with :,
verdict zof .ssnot guilty. The court house wss
Apacked and tie verdict greeted with round
cheers. James was Immediately arrested IL
1.-The sherid on Cooper county, Missouri r.
Mrs. Ferrel, wife Of q wealthy farmer Of Nav
man, CD ian of with :Rudd Jenkins, and t&c
uPleMereF arrssted m.etsleeper near Mariet
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01
Miscellaneous News Notes.

Mr. Hoffman of Mendoza, Ill.,, is sued for u,
700 for his golden wedding supper. He offers
$64O.
OF 500 delegates already elected to Chicago,
Blaine has 1872 Arthur 154, Edmunds 40, To-
gan 50, Sherman 81, scattering 10, unknown
126
Dartmouth is to have alarge library building.
with an assembly room seating 600, and an art
gallery, e.
Fifty mine Minnesota counties have chosen
"A Blaine, Edmunds, Logan, and 1873 un-
known delegates.
George Gresham, assessor and collector for
Salt Lake county Utah is being investigated in
the district court, He lis in default on collec-
tons over $42,000
Norman l. Munro, one of New York's pirate
publishers, will launch the finest yacht in the
city this week It is the Norma, $50 feet long,
and rendered by pretty steam launch.
Tobacco rebate claims are being paid at the
rate Of 1000 day, and it is expected to have
them all settled in about month. The claims
already settled number Is ,O00, and represent
$2,0O0,0OO.
Profs. Elias Loomis and Hubert A. Newton,
of the Winchester observatory at Yale college,
have resigned az doctors owing I'd differences
with Dr. Leonard Waldo, the head of the horo-
logical and thermometrical bureau. s. x y
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01
The .Quinologist announces that the

The .Quinologist announces that the
numerous cinchona gardens commenced
five or six years ago in Java will soon be-
gin to yield, and bark may be expected
to take appointment position in the list
ofexports from that island. In 1881 the
number of new trees in the nurseries
was 736, 800, and in 1882, 1,205, 800.
The trees in the plantations numbered
2,2O7, $50 in 1881, and 2, 099, 400 in 1882.
There are nine varieties in all. The led
gerianas have proved successful, and.
contain from 9 TO 114per cent. Of al
kaloid. So Is 4. ...- Il
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01
A liquor bill has been introduced into


A liquor bill has been introduced into
the Senate by Senator Ingalls, of Kan
sas, that seems to be q double edged
measure, it proposes to SO change the
present laws with respect to the special
tax imposed by the general government
on the manufacture and sale of intox-
icating liquors, as to provide that COL
lectors of internal revenue shall be pro-
hibited from receiving such special taxes
or granting permits or licenses for car
rying on the business of wholesale or re
tail liquor dealers or brewers in any
state or municipality in which the car
rying on Of such business is contrary to
state or municipal laws, and that the
payment of any tax imposed By intsllal
revenue laws for carrying on such bds-
mess shallsnot be held to exempt any
person from any penalty imposed BY
state laws for carving on the same.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01

The resignation of Chaplain Charles c.
Pierce, Ninth cavalry, has been accepted by
the president, to take effect June 80. Capt.
John Lee, Fourth cavalry, who has been found
, incapacitated for active service by an army re-
firing board, has been granted leave Of absence
until further orders. Gen Sheridan has
ordered the Fourth cavalry, which is now in
New Mexico, and the Sixth cavalry, which is in
Arizona, to exchange stations. 49,, t3tF,5
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01

Gen. Swaim's friends are of the opinion that
the secretary of war has no authority to order
board of inquiry in any case unless the officer
whose conduct is to DO inquired into asks for
it. They assert that where the military author
ity deems an official investigation necessary it
should be by court martial, which alone has
power to punish. This has unquestionably
been the custom.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01

The special force of police constables lately
sent into County Cork and other sections of the
South. of Ireland is being gradually withdrawn,
of that part of the country. 1t is claimed that
the recent important arrests of dynamiters at
different places, and the prospect of speedy JUS
tee being dealt to them, has cowed the agita-
tors and caused them to abandon their opera
tons, at least for the present 80
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01

Texas has q cattle queen as we'll as
cattle kings. A man named Rabb, hv-
ing near Corpus Christi, who by good
management had accumulated herd Of
10000 cattle, died and left all to his
better half, who had been his helpmeet
in every sense of the word, and thor
ougbly understood the business. Wild
ow Rabbi, says a correspondent, was
not only thrifty. but was pio11s, and be-
longed to the Methodist persuasion. A
young preacher by the name of Rogers
came along. under whose ministrations
she grew in grace, and the result was a
matrimonial one although the odds Ill
age were in favor of the !arson by some
hing like twenty three wears. She, had
% children and he had seven. hltis,he
too', the motherlc,* BARNS under her
wings, and the alliance has turned ont
II every way successfully. Rogers had
not long been married to the widow and
cattle when he acquired a bad case OF
bronchitis and was compelled togiveup
preaching. Such cases are frequent.
But the widow gave him notice that she
vc5 competant to run the ranch, and
has kept the cattle in her own name,
Rogers knowing no more about them
THAI any Of the neighbors.
Last fall, in contested pre- -cmption
cases at Duluth of Walter G.. Gordon,
ard Frank Gordon, ncphews of Hon H.
J.. Gordon and others, in which MIR.
Gordon appeared as attorney for the
nrc- emptors, the case was summary
closed BY land officers who refused to
allow Gordon to practice as an attorney
before them. The case was appealed
to the commissioner of the general land
office. Wcdnes lay, the 10Th, lis decision
was received. It s,lstains the land officers
here and debars Gordon FROM practic-
ing before the land Office.
Joseph Bookwalter, collector of Gus
torns for Minnesota, says there never
was any truth in the rumored designs OF
Fenians on the Manitoba province, but
there is every truth in the statement
that the Manitoban farmers are terribly
poor. The government is constantly
helping the Canadian Pacific and the
people have to pay for it and pay enor-
nous freight rates besides.
Phil Dick Of st. Peter sailed from
New York for Europe on the North
German Lloyd steamer Vera recently.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01

The vicious old theory that young
man must SOW his wild oats before set
thing down to the steady business of life
seems to be falling into disrepute. The
Pail Mall Gazette says of performance
of s'The School for Scandal: - Gin tha;;
comedy Sir Oliver Surface compares
the youth who is free from follies and
vices to a young tree choked by tho
parasitic ivy, and expresses his prefer
ence for the man who has had his fling
This sentiment was couchedin language
and delivered in q manner which rarely
fails to call down a house, but there
was almost blank silence on Saturday,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01

A murderer was executed at Write
Plains, Ny. last week. He insisted
on having his picture taken the daysbe-
fore his execution, and ''posed for an
artist in front of his cell, expressing
great anxiety that the likeness and po-
sition should be good, as the pictures
would not be finished in time for him to
sec them. He spent his last day on
earth eating fried oysters, smoking
cigarettes, receiving flowers and seeing
all the visitors who called at the Jail.
AS Hundreds of women" are said to
have visited him, he was naturally kept
busy and had very little time to attend
the reading of the death warrant or to
trouble himself ABOUT his parents. The
authorities arc much to blame for allow
ing this sort of nonsense, which would
not be tolerated anywhere but in the
United States. It is wrong and mis-
chievous to degree that can scarcely
be conceived by those who have had
but little experience ofcriminal life and
characters
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01

Thousands of people in South Caro-
lima, owing to the drouth which pre-
vailed from last May until December,
are undergoing the pangs Of hunger and
have not the means to purchase food.
1t is said that men, women, and little
children are undergoing unparalleled
privations, and facing death with stole
ism that should command both SYM
pathy and admiration from the Christian
people. They have made no cutlery,
sent out no appeal to the public; but
have suffered on in silence, being too
proud to beg and too honest to steal.
There are people with large plantations
who are so hedged in that bread is bare
ly attainable. So long as they had any
thing to spare whites and blacks helped
each other, but now that supplies are
wholly exhausted all are sharing the
general calamity. The Marion Index,
Of the 7th inst, says that. III no year
since the war have provisions been so
scarce and that hundreds in Marion
county are literally without bread. Just
what is true of this county is equally
true of others.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-01

I, Phil Dick Of st. Peter sailed from
New York for Europe on the North
German Lloyd steamer Vera recently.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-10-31
HEALTH HINTS,

It is claimed that the smoke from
burning brown sugar relieves the pain of
flesh wounds.
A remedy for frost bites is to rub the
afflicted parts with pure oil of pepper
mint. 1t will also prevent the after effect
of chilblains. Care should be taken to
use only the pure oil, and not the essence
of peppermint, as the essence will not
have the desired effect.
Decoction of quassia, applied to mos
quito bits. constitutes an excellent
remedy fer the relief of the itching and
irritation. When applied to the exposed
portions of the body it is also preser-
vatiye against the attacks of these very
disagrceable and annoying pests.
Elevation of the head of the bed, by
placing under each leg block of the
thickness of two bricks, is stated to be
an effective remedy for cramps. Patients
who have suffered at nights, crying aloud
with pain, have found this plan to afford
immediate, certain, permanent relief.
Arnica used for flesh wounds should
always be diluted with water. Even
then, it is, to some persons, a poison.
First exclude the air from the wound,
then apply hot or cold water, as may be
most agreeable 1t will soothe, allay
Inflammation, and in ordinary cases
nature will do the rest.