St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-22

! the place has the reputation OF showing it
hospitality is also an indncement to the sol
dierS. Also its churches and variety thea
J tiers.
Col. Thompson. the early pioneer and
veteran Democrat at Bismarck. has me-
with great success i'm growing tame grasSe:
the past eight years. He thinks blue gras:
! is indigenous. as il comes up of itself wheT
I the prairie sod IS subdued.
The complete census of Hanson county
shows a population of 4,047. 1t had les
| than !. 800 i'm 1880. and is, with one excep
ton, the smallest county in the territory
/ 1t has but twelve townships. Its chic
/ town is Alexandria City with $50.
The members of the colony of Russians
/ that went from the South to Campbell
county left prescriptions uncovered in Boz
/ Homme county and they are now being
| jumped. They are quite valuable and the
/ Russians will be likely 10 lose them.
In Lincoln county parties will have hun.
dreds of bushels of excellent apples thi:
year. There is no doubt that apples can bt
grown successfully in nearly all parts OF
/ the territory. Extra effort may be needed
in some sections 10 give them start.
There is 4 vast scope of country between
| the Black Hills and the Northern Pacific or
the west that is almost valueless now from
| lack of water. 1t is believed that arteSiau
wells will supply this deficiency and make
/ il productive section, but a railroad will
be needed first.
Although Judge Mcconnell, at the open
ing of the United States court at Fargo.
charged the grand jury to investigate
charges against various land officers. it is
generally believed that the fellow feeling
among federal officials will give the matter
small results.
Douglas is one of the few of the older
counties of the South that has no railroad.
1t is a fine and well-improved section, and
/ il is believed that both the Chicago, Mil
waukee x st. Paul and the Northwestern
will soon build into it. They will strike
Grand View. the county seat.
1t is pretty well understood that MavoI
Burke of Ipswich and Col. Barrett OF the
| Aberdeen Republican have their hats
chalked for the land offices at Aberdeen.
and it is only question of time. They are
genial. capable and handsome men and
! recognized leaders of that section.
There was much more damage done from
late hail storms than at first supposed. The
insurance companies find quite number OF
fields of wheat in Sargent, La Moure and
other localities in that section needing Their
attention. On the line of the Northern
Pacific there were few fields destroyed
near Wheatland.
1t has been denied that Hon. Mark Ward
and Miss Barnard, the latter the Mitchell
lady who served Lawyer Crow so STABILITY.
have married, but Vermont paper records
the performance of the ceremony July >.
1t makes the novel statement that the
preparations for marriage with Lawyer
Crow ''were against the wishes of the lady
and her parents and entirely unknown to
Mr.. Ward" 1t adds also that the love that
ripened into niatrimOny was the growth OF
the trip from Dakota TO Vermont. Mr..
Ward is politician, and all is fair in love
and politics, it is said.
Maj. Butts, the eccentric reluctant bach
elor and ex-congresSman of Lisbon, Is fel-
low of infinite jest. The past week he was
visited by Col. Mabey, better known as
Ramsey Dick of Fargo, and the major Sc
cured the colonel an introduction TO we'll
known but harmless and very ungraciOuS
''lung" of the place, who held the unsus-
pecting young Mabey two hours i'm pause
less flow of talk, nearly driving the latter
insane before he was rescued. He was so
indignant that a full key of beer was re-
quired to appeaSe his wrath.