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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17


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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17
Destructive Fire at Hampton, Va.

A fire occurred at Hampton.Va. by which thir-
ty buildings were destroyed. The fire originated
in store occupied by G. N. Bridgeman With
high wind blowing from the northwest the
whole town was threatened with destruction,
and the fire engines from the Soldiers homo
and Old Point were at once dispatched to the
scene. During the progress Of the fire a mum
Der of persons we're injured and for a time the
greatest excitement prevailed. In order to, as
far as possible, prevent any serious disturb
ance, Judge Booker ordered all barrooms
closed and the military has been ordered out.
In August 1861, Hampton was burned by Gen.
Magruder, and another big fire occurred in
September, 1882 The fire throws out of en-
ployment over 100 persons. The loss is esti-
mated at 800 1000; covered by insurance in
northern and southern companies
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

AT the meeting of the Southern Min
nesota Wool Growers association, held
at Eyota April 8, twenty-one new men,
bers we're admitted. It was decided to
hold a sheep shearing festival on May 5.
Quite a lengthy discussion was held
concerning methods Of raising, sale and
transportation of sheep, and other
questions relating to wool growing in
terests of Southern Minnesota. DR.. E.
G. Gross, Il. G. Bolton and J. T. Pierce
were elected delegates to the national
convention in Chicago on May 10.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17
DEATH SUPERSTITIONS.
Howling Dogs and Other Signs of Disso19'

Howling Dogs and Other Signs of Disso1u-
II think people are getting to be bet
ter educated, and, as consequence, are
less superstitious than they used to be, +"
said Patrick Drake, the undertaken, in
talking about the matter. 1--WE heard
lot of these things in my time-I ought
to, I've laid away nearly 5000 people
but I never remember them. OF course
you've heard that the bowling Of dog
is sure sign of death; that seems to be
generally believed in. The guttering
of candle is another. To bring a
dead body into a house means that
some of the people who
live there will shortly die; if corpse
after death is not laid out straight some
people also believe that another death
will also follow. There are great
many more of these things but [ never
charge my memory with them. It is
now only in the lower and ignorant class
that you find people who believe in
them, and it is growing harder to find
them every year. Waking among the
lower lI1Su is AlSO leSS. COuulOu Liz
most superstitious races are the Scotch
and Irish, the Germans and English
somewhat, and the Americans least of
ALL"
"No, sir, I don't think anything about
it, but know that some Of these signs
are sure forerunner of DEATH" said
George W. Latimer. II can't explain
why it is that dog bowls when a per-
son is dying, but I guess there must
bs something in the air which
tells him of it,, and makes him feel it.
If we were to study these things it
might often save us much trouble. What
do you think of this? A gentleman one
Wednesday night sitting in his parlor,
his wife perfectly we'll, singing and
playing on the piano with lady friend.
Suddenly it flashed across the gentle
mans mind that if his wife We're to die
a hat rack in the hall would have to be
moved before the coffin could be taken
out of the house. The idea just flashed
across his mind and then went away as
suddenly as it came, and he thought no
more about it. On Friday bis wife was
dead, and as they took the coffin out of
the house and he saw the hat rack being
moved, the thought that came to him
Wednesday suddenly returned. You
can't explain it nor can I, but we know
that such things always are happening"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17
Marriage Among Convicts.

AsA14AAeSSO xAA44OAAS SVASANoos
From the London St James Gazette.
A party of so women are this weel
leaving Bordeaux for New Caledonia
under peculiar circumstances. They
are, in fact, women sentenced to &
heightened term of impris oment fo1
grave offenses, who have elected to &C
to the French penal colony, where they
will each find husband in one of the
"convicts of the first class"-that is
those convicts who have by their good
behavior entitled themselves to gov
eminent grant of land and obtained per.
mission to marry. An inspectress OF
prisons recently made the round of six
central female prisons and Sc
lected the so inmates-all of them
described as young and good
looking-who are now gong abroad to
make fresh start in the world. Once
out they will be housed in religious
establishment at Noumea, maneged by
a community of sisters, where bachelor
convicts of the privileged class will be
permitted to visit them, and as often as
a marriage is arranged the colonial gov
eminent will provide the bride with a
trosseau and set the couple up in house
keeping in a small way It was Prince
Napoleon, who, when he was minister
for Algeria and the colonies, introduced
this system of convict marriages, which
has given excellent results thus far.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

At Owatonna, it being understood
that DR.. Hill and his family were about
to move to Colorado, some forty or
more of their personal friends made a
surprise for them and presented the
doctor with a very fine gold watch,
The presentation speech was made by
the Rev. Thompson and responded to
by the doctor.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

Work has been resumed on the south
wing Of the capitol at Madison, and will
be pushed as rapidly as possible, the
contractors hoping to get it under cover
in month, and entirely completed by
August 1. The great pecuniary loss
caused by the disaster of Nov. devolves
upon the contra ctors, Bently & Nowlan
of Milwaukee.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17
Simmer Passenger Rates to the East.

TIC 10ca1 conl1n1tte5 [passenger uepaft lnenC)
of the east-bound trunk line pool, has issued a
joint differential passenger tariff on limited
frst-class tickets between Chicago and New
York, and Boston and intermediate points,
rates between Chicago and New York, by the
various routes, as follows:
By the Lake Shore and New York Central,
Michigan Central and New York Central or
Fort Wayne and Pennsylvania Central, $50 By
the Baltimore g. Ohio or Niagara Falls Short
Line and Niagara Central, Niagara Falls Short
Wnst &C., e Nasapn
and Erie, Grand Trunk and West Shore, Michi-
gan Central and Erie, Michigan Central and
West Shore, Lake Shore and Erie, Lake Shore
and West Shore or Erie and Chicago, $3.50
Rates from Chicago to Boston range from
$50. 50 to $22.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17
Winter Feeding of Cattle.

The daily allowance Of hay to each
COW should be about 25 pounds, the
quantity varying somewhat with the
size of the animal. It is we'll to bear in
mind, when laying in the winter supply
that early-cut hay is by far the most
nutritious, as the early cutting saves, in
a nutritious form, material which later
on becomes woody fiber.
The value of roots as Winter food is
so widely acknowledged that little need
be said in support Of their use. Their
nutritive qualities are considerable, and
their vegetable constitution retains their
distinctive natural moisture, while the
large bulk which may be grown on CIV
en- area at a comparatively small cost,
recommends them to every reason
ing man. A crop of 600 bushels of
mangelwurzels and 800 bushels of ruta-
bagas was raised upon one acre of good
land at total cost Of only $55. Fifty
pounds of roots and 20 pounds of hay
constitute good daily feed for milking
COWS of average size. More hay should
be added if the cattle will consume it,
or it's equivalent should be given in
straw or corn-stalks, boiled if practic-
able. Add to this ration two quarts OF
corn-meal, and almost the excellence Of
a Summer pasture is attained. If the
further addition of the two quarts of
cotten-seed meal is made, as recon-
mended in the case of pasturing, the
results will closely approach the maxi
mum, and will prove a sufficient reason
for persevering in this diet The value
of variety in food should not be forgot
ten. Carrots and parsnips, oats and
other grains may profitably form an oc-
casional change.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

L. Andrew Lang, one of the most
cultivated and agreeable of the English
essayists who have come into promi-
nence during the last few years, has &C.
cepted the editorship of the English
edition of Harper's Magazine.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17
Consumpt1on!.

Consumption.
is disease We all dread It often carries it's
victim to an untimely grave. How important,
then, for those who cherish life and health to
prevent that disease in it's early stages. Every
Cold or Cough should be treated with Aliens
Lung Balsalm. There is no better remedy. ;.
Pisos' Remedy for Catarrh is certain cure for
that very obnoxious disease. s@
For DySpepsia, Indigestion, Depression Of
Spirits and General Debility ia their various forms
other Intermittent Fevsrs, the .'Ferro-PhoephOr-
stsd Elixir Sf Calis:ya,' msds by Caswel. Hazard
best tonic; and for patients recovering from 1sv6s
or other sickness, II has no equal. Dr. Il s555
DR.. Sanford's Liver mvigorator-vegetable
Tryit when gentle cathartic action is needed,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17
Chicago, Feb. 26th,

About two years ago resorted to the
use OF Warmers Safe Cure, taking in all
thirty-two bottles for kidney and uniary
affections, and it has proved complete
success, and radically cured the pain in
N.Y. back. A lady of this county,a con-
firmed invalid for three years past,
with what the doctors here said was in
ternal cancer, beyond all skill and hope
in the doctors opinion, has been raised
almost from the dead by the use of
nine bottles of this excellent medicine.
J. H. HUDSON.
Altoona, Pa, Feb. 9th.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

Senator Pendleton and Speaker Car
Isle will deliver addresses at the cele-
bration of the anniversary of the Neck
lenburg Declaration Of Independence,
at Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 20.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

Leaves the Throat in Good Condition.
DEAR Sm:-I received bottle of your White
Wine Of Tar Syrup, and was much benefited by
it's use. My throat seems to be in better condi-
ton than for years, and can recommend it to
others. Please send me another bottle.
Yours Truly,
De Soto Mo- Rev H. SCHULETER.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

Eight sons of the late President Ma
than Lord, of Dartmouth College, were
graduated from that institution during
his incumbency of the Office Only one,
Colonel Nathan Lord, Jr., now survives.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

A Baltimore mother, snpposing she was dy-
ing, gave her baby to her nurse and told her to
take it to an asylum until after her death: The
nurse pocketed the child's board money and
left it on the asylum doorstep. The mother
has recovered, but cannot indemnity her baby
among hundred other WATTS
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

I have taken Swifts Specific Is S. S. for
rheumatism, and found perfect relief. It is the
best tonic and Blood Remedy known to science.
D. ?. Hill Attorney at law, Atlanta, Ga.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

Cleveland, O. Captain of police

''For years I have had excruciating
pains in the small of my back and was
not able to raise from bed or be in sit
ting posture. The doctors claimed that
I was suffering from spinal disease, and
I never expected to leave my bed again.
Though having no hope Of recovery,
Warmers Safe Cure was recommended
to me, which I commenced taking, and
eight bottles have made permanent
cure. Mrs. CHRIsTJAHN.
No. % Thirteenth street.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

The prince of Wales has an income
Of $500, 900 year, and his wife So, 000
yet it is said to require management
and occasional spasms of retrenchment
to enable them to live within their
means. $50; s. e III, ) 4, s
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

Lammot Dupont, who was killed on Saturday
by the explosion at Thompson's Point, Pa, was
worth S13, OOO, 600 He had a controlling in
terest in the manufacture of nearly all the high
explosives that were made in the United States
and Canada east of the Rocky mountains.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

The failure of the First National Bank of st
Adams, vt, caused a panic in Swanton and a
run on the Union bank in that place.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17
South Norwalk, Conn.

II had kidney disorders, indigestion,
rheumatism and lumbago for three years.
I grew worse and felt as though hun
dred pound weight was dragging down
my liver and kidneys. Warmers Safe
Cure has fully restored me-"
G.. B. De NOVELTIES.
ALBANY. n. Y. $40 broadway.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

BROWNS BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs will relieve
Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh, Consumptive and
Throat diseases. They are used always with
good SUCCESS
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

$4,000 would not purchase from mo what
Swifts Specific Is. s. S. has effected in my
case. It has cured me of Malarial Rheumatism.
Archie Thomas Snrinpfield Penn
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

have used Ely's Cream Balm for dry catarrh
Ito which every eastern person is subject who
comes to live in high altitude.) Ithas proved
a cure in my case.-B. F.. NJ WEEKS, Denver,
Col EASY to use Price SO centsl
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

"Previous to year ago I was severely
afflicted with kidney difficulty. My back
ached, my urine was ''sudsy," and I was
in bad way. I had tried various rem
edies, but only with temporary relief,
until I began the use of Warmers Safe
Cure, three bottles of which with the
Safe Pills, efectually cured me, and I
have not had an attack since"
HENRY HoEHM,
Cleveland, 0. Captain of police.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

Sure cure for Blind, Bleeding and Itching
Piles Single box has cured worst chronic
case Of twenty years standing. No one need
suffer five minutes after applying. Williams
Indian Pile ointment. It absorbs the tumors,
allays the itching (praticularly after getting
warm in bed). Prepared only for piles and
itching for the private parts Noyes Bros. 4
Cutler, St Paul. Wholesale Agents.
Military men in the department Of Dakota
number 4255
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17
Piles! Piles! Piles!

Trough on Rats, clears out Rats, Mice. 15c
Mother Swans Worm Syrup, tasteless. Csc
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

What is beautiful? Why, Carboline, a deod-
orized extract of petroleum. Delightfully."- per-
fumed, and will not soil the finest linen fablic-a
perfect toilet preparation and absolutely makes
the hair grow on bald heads
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17
De Soto, Mo.
Cured CLERGYMAN.

Rev. L. s. Coulton, of Circleville, Kansas
says: Dr. Warner, Your White Wine of Tar Syr-
up has been in my family and found to be all
and even more than You claim for it It is a
speedy cure for all throat and lung diseases
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

have suffered from catarrh to such an ex-
tent that had to bandage my head to quiet the
pain I was advised by Mr.: Brown, of Ithaca,
to try Ely Cream Balm When suffering with
catarrh or cold in the head have never found
it's equaL-C A. COOPER, Dandy, N. Y ZAP
plv with finger Price 30 cents
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

Aliens Iron Tonic Bitters create
ture off, F. F. Alien, Druggist, St Paul. MINI Mir
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

II was treated by Doctors Agnew and
Wabster, of New York, who pronounced
me afflicted with Bright's disease. Twas
bloated exceedingly, but Warmers Safe
Cure, [ verify believe, saved my life"
GEO. STEVENS,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

rs Henry s. Sanford, the Florida orange king
wants to succeed Sargent 81 ~ Is sssas
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17
Farm Uses OF Crude Petroleum.

Crude petroleum is a wonderful
preservative of wood, but it is in no
sense paint, and should have no pig
ment whatever mixed with it. It has
none of this drying properties Of lin
seed oil, and will never harden upon
surface. On the contrpsy, it will pen
citrate where water cannot;; filling the
pores Of wood and completely excluding
wet. There is nothing equal to it as
first application to buildings or fences,
especially when rough and weather.
beaten. I have so applied it, leaving
it few weeks to the action of the air
and hot sun, then covering with lead
and linseed oil. The woodwork of my
farming tools is kept full of it. APP
piled hot to wagon felloes from time to
time, the tires will never loosen. For
years have used it in a multitude of
ways, and barrel of light crude
petroleum should not like to be with
out. Almost any city has refinery
where it may be produced, and it costs
me, per 50-gallon barrel, freight and
all, about IS. But if you get any, get
understanding with it, and don't try to
make paint Of it. Don't grease your
harness with it, and don't use it to kindle
yOur fires
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

One-half of Mandalay, capital of Burmah, a
city of &C, 600 people has been burned
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

General Treviino, who has been travel
ing in Europe for the past nine months
IS now In this country, en- route for his;
home in Monterey, Mexico,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

Wells May Apple (Liver) Pills, 10c
CROUCH ON DENTIST" Tooth Powder, 15c.
The tK0ugh OH Tooth Powder elegant LIZ
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17
Testing Feed Corn,

Thinking farmers will lose no time in
securing a supply Of good seed nor will
they trust to appearance, nor to any
mans word but will carefully test it
for themselves, and thus be sure it will
terminate This testing of seed is not
at all difficult undertaking; to be
doubly sure three tests should be made
for one dip with large spoon careless
~, 100 kernels out of the pile; for the
second, select 100 of the best, and, for
the third, 100 Of the poorest you can
find.
Take for each lot any convenient
dish, and fill it nearly full of clean
sand, and pour in water till it rises to
within quarter of an inch of the top
of the sand; on the sand place the 100
kernels of corn, and over these place
any convenient cloth to retain moisture
and exclude light. Place the dish near
the stove so as to secure temperature
of 80 degrees, and not over 10 degrees.
In two days, and every day thereafter,
examine by carefully lifting the cloth.
Every kernel that has sprouted should
be removed and counted; in this way
yon can tell what per cent. of each
grade will grow. If not over IS per
cent. of the best kernels terminate, the
seed should be rejected, but in any
case you will know how much to allow
for worthless seed at planting time
Rural New Yorker.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

Cyrus Field of Ottawa, ILL.,, has received
e. 100 pension arrears for twenty-five years.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

warmers Safe Cure has saved my
boys life. Doctors pronounced his the
worst case Of Bright's Disease they ever
saw" E. B. BUCK,
Editor Macoupin County Enquirer.
Carlinville, Ills, March LIST.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17
An Open
Secret.

The fact is we'll understood
that the MEXICAN NUS
TANG EMINENT is by far
the best external known Tor
man or beast. The reason
why becomes an "0pen
secret =" when we explain that
g Mustang' penerates skin,
flesh and muscle to the very
bone, removing all disease
and soreness. No other lini.
ment does this, hence nO1e
other is SO largely used or
does such worlds Of good.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17

Owing to the high temperature of the
room in which I worked contracted o
terrible cold that produced serious kid
ney disorder. Warmers Safe Cure re-
stored me to health"
Exeter, N. H. JAMES BRUCE.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17
totes FOR THE FARM AND HOUSE,
Agricultural Items.

The Scottish Farmers Alliance is a
vigorous organization, with membership
# over 1000. s's@'''.'
Maury, in Tennessee, is the banner
County of the United States for mules.
It's annual shipment is from 1000 to g.
600.
To remove rust from tools, first scour
them with emery moistened with sui
rhuric acid diluted with six volumes of
water; rinse dry, and finish with oil and
emery flour.
The man who is dependent upon
Natures methods for his crops, cannot
afford to be ignorant of Natures laws.
Kind words and gentle patting on
the head will go much further in tanning
a timid heifer, than a score of milk
stools. =
You will soon need all the work the
horses are able to perform. See to it
now that they have the best of care and
little extra feed.
If you would succeed in horticulture
you must be observant, unsleepingly
vgilant, always. ready to go where
needed; to go quickly and have ready
hand to assist soils, trees or attend
ants-and always carry sharp prun-
ing knife in your pocket.
An early Spring pig kept growing
and fattening on pasture (mostly Red
Clover during the Summer and early
Fall, and then rapidly fattened on grain
for two months, is the most profitable
hog.
Every farmer owes to his brother
farmers knowledge of each event that
occurs to him, in his business, that
would be of interest to them Farm
er's Review.
If as much money were spent in de-
veloping the walking gait of our horses
as is devoted to bring out their trotting.
pacing and running qualities, the real
value of our horses would soon be very
materially enhanced National Stock
man.
Mules are much more economical than
horses for farm work. They eat one
half less, will do as much work and live
half longer. With this data do your
own figuring Farm Journal.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17
WHY Endure It.

Distress and anguish why endure
When there is found perfect cure,
That stops Rheumatic aches and pain
And or;uoo tho srfforor ooeo oroint