The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-09-10
AIiScellaua0uSN News ItemE.

| New Bedford, Mass, has IL sensation in
the sale OF 10000 pounds of whalcbone at
| So: 1Oapound. The last sales were at So. .25.
The Massachusetts, state board OF health
has unearthed another large baby farm at
| Bedford.
r. D. Hawley, a scotsman OF Hartford,
! Conn.,, has collection of old riolins val
ued at 100000.
Oil has been struck at Zaliski, Ohio, at a
depth OF 2, 113 feet from the surface, boring
through a cave 200 feet deep.
| St. Paul business men say that the open
ing Of the gambling houses will nccessitate a
stricter watch on their clerks.
There are indications that Tom Davis,
the dead New York crook, left number OF
widows who will fight for his estate.
Poundmaker is allowed to wear his hair
in the penitentiary. lie is studying botany
under the tuition OF Mr.. Alexander Fisher.
Aayor Vaugan, OF Council Bluffs, paralyzes
| local sports by issuing a proclamation
closing saloons, gambling houses and houses
Of ill fame.
| Senator Hoar delivered {, speech in Bos-
ton taking substantially the same position
as that enunciated by Senator Sherman in
Ohio recently.
The chairman Of the Iowa. Sate hrohibi:
tion committee has issued 9 call for state
eonYention at Cedar Rapids Sept. 23 to
Nominate a candidate for governor.
Speaking of the death penalty, the
Minnesota is worthy of the attention Of
those who hold that the death penalty
should be abolished.
At a meeting called at New Haven by the
mayor 10 raise money for the Grant memo
| rial fund, only the mayor and the janitor Of
the hall present. The call for the meet
ing had appeared in all the city papers for n
week.
Ahe cowboys are very vigorous in their
denunciations of Gen. Ed. McCook, because
he first called Secretary Lamars attention
| to the fact that the cattlemen were illegally
| grazing the land of the Cheyenncs and Ara
pahoes.
Controller Durham will hold back the
salary OF Counsel Cresswell, OF the Alabama
claims court on the ground that this is the
| only means the government has OF protect
ing itself against improper disbursement
authorized by him.
At public temperance meeting held at
Madison, Wis.,, President John Bascom Of
the state university denounced high lieenee,
to be voted for throughout the state Sept.
Is, as sorbia subterfuge to delay the pro-
gyosa of the prohibition g ointment.
The unpleasant weather of the past two
weeks eliminated in snow storm at Dead.
wood. 4he OUTLOOK for grain "a gloomy in
the cxtrepe. Four-fifths of all the crops
are cut, and the bulk is lying on the ground
heating and growing, much that is stacked
being destroy ed even for feed.
For some time past there have been
rumors in Boston to, the effect that heavy
defalcation had occurred in the house of
Jordan, Marsh & Co. This much is known,
that the firm has recently been called upon
to pay $247 900 for goods which it did not
know it had ever bought, or which it sup.
posed had already been settled for in full.
Kossuth, Marx e. Co., wholesale dealers
in jewelry and importers 6f diane nds, in
New York, failed, and the partners, Kos
suth, Ad6lphus and jacob Marx, made; an
assignment for the benefit iofcteditors The
total liabilities are reported at from $4OO,-
900 to 5000, 900, with large assets. No es-
innate of'which would be given either by the
firm or assignee. i.
The Iowa state board of health, in cir
cular, calls the attention OF local boards
and physicians especially to the alarming
outbreak of smallpox ih Montreal, and the
necessity of great vigilance to prevent it's
appearance in this state. All suspicious
cases Stimulating smallpox should be
promptly isolated and prompt measures
be taken for protection by vaccination und
revacciaatiop,