The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-02-14
Miscellaneous News Notes.

| organized
| The census of Boston shows is, 303 more fe-
males than males.
! st. Paul officials say the Northwestern Traf-
| fc association is doomed
Ex-Gov. Fairchild of Wisconsin saws Ameri-
can farmers spread over too much ground -
I Mrs.. White Of Macon, Ga, aged fifty years,
has eloped With John ,Bodgers, agsd swnty-
lone.s - Z. :
Pasrine d Co, s9olen firm, Nsw Hprk.hsse;
Asg1gneG I1apniues, sII500O actual aaaets.-
80 ~ s. .:.;.sss3s.s -
Theirs Hasan Increase Of 46 900 90 81 insurls' Z
ans riitten il Minnesota ii 1855 ovsr ths pro
vioas yea. . . ssssSssss5 ssa u
F Anthony Kamm died in the Buffalo, n. Y,
| poorhouse from too much sleep, claiming the
Lord ordered him to sleep.
The Astor library has fund 81, 800 2S8, &C
eording to the annual report just made, and
| 2O8, ,429 books exclusive Of pamphlets
Mr.. Edwald Mcpherson has informed Chair
ship of the republican congressional committee
George F. Miles has brought suit to recover
$4,000 damages from the city of Winona for
damages received because of q defective side
walk.
The civil rights bill of the Ohio legislature
has become law It is the same as declared
! unconstitutional by the United States supreme
court.
Charles Palmer, baggageman on the Pitts
burg & Fort Wayne railway, has received $685.
600 for injuries resulting from; a collision Of
two trains.
Augustus Hail. sole surviving partner of the
firm of F. E. Jaeger & Co.,, crockery dealers,
Chicago, has assigned Liabilities $68. 900:
assets, $4,000
Business failures of the past week reported
to r. G. Dunn & Co. number in the United
States, 232, and Canada, 46. Total 27S; pre-
vious week, BIZ
Paymaster Wasson, now i'll the Kansas peni-
tentiary, will be released by order of the presi-
dent He will test the finding of the court
martial by which he was imprisoned
James A Grinstead, of the late private bank
ing firm of Grinstead & Bradbury, Louisville,
Kv. has assigned Assets, $4,000 to 1000:
liabilities, unknown, but supposed to exceed
the assets
Mrs. Hardy of England, on the advice of
clairvoyant. came to st. Paul in search of her
lost daughter, only to learn that she had COM
mitted suicide at home. The mother is now
destitute at Milwaukee.
Bradstreet's March book will show an increase
Of $50 names in Minnesota for the three months
covered and of these 100 are residents of St
Paul. During the time named fifteen new post
Offices have been opened in this state.
Sullivan was Kissed at San Francisco because
he did knock out Taylor, and showed his abili-
ity to knock out the kings English, as fol-
lows: ''Them that hisses is loafers I am 2
who says he hissed"
oIol1 %l,o&%1 IL
Cullough trial in Milwaukee, which ended in a
large number Of prosecutions for perjury: In
spite of the fact that the prisoners made q con-
fession previous to trial, plenty of witnesses
swore to an alibi 1t is now proposed to sue
these witnesses orperjury.
The new ticket for the workingmen, after
repeated conferences at the national headquar-
ters, has finally been completed, and is: for
president, Gen. Benjamin F. Butler of Massa--
chusetts; for vice president, Carter 81. Harri-
son of Illinois. It is understood that the
greenback paper there, Buffers organ, will
soon hoist this ticket.
Articles of incorporation of the St Paul Base
Ball association were fled in the register of
deeds Office. They set forth that the object of
the association is to maintain and operate q
public park in St Paul, in which shall be played
the game of base ball and other games. The
articles bind the association for ten years. The
capital stock is 80 O06 divided into 400 shares
of $25 each, and the highest Indebtedness al
owed is $2,50O.
Edwin Chapman, president Of the Rochester
Manufacturing company, writes from Portland,
Ore, that a gold mine in which he is largly in
terested, near that place, has struck thick bed
Of mineral in payingquantties Mr.. Chap
mans house, with its contents was demolished
in the August cyclone, his mother was killed,
his wife is still confined to her bed from the
effect of her injuries, and his machine shops
were laid flat on the ground He writes that
Of late has seemed to Be against him.