The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-07-02

Great interest is felt here about the con.
dition OF Senator Sabin, Says the Washing
ton correspondent OF the Cincinnati Times
Star. He made q good many personal
friends here during his two winters in the
senate. lie has never essayed any orator
ical efforts OF any consequence during his
term thus far, but has been as attentive to
duties as the embarrassed condition OF
his finances would permit. Personally,
Sabin is q very agreeable and companion
able gentleman. Coming here as a mil
willingness to treat everybody, whatever
his station or duty, kindly, and in a way
that made personalfriends for him wherever
he was known.
report has been received at the navy
department from Admiral Jouett, announ-
cling the failure by the parties interested to
settle the disputes in the United States OF
Colombia. He says: The political differ
ences between the two parties are OF such a
allure that a peaceable settlement is quite
impossible at this time. Hostilities are
likely to continue indefinitely. Govern
ment troops are marching on Barrouquil.
leaders OF the liberal party in Colombia.
The troubles on the isthmus result from
local politics and from the fact that many
depraved characters congregate there. He
anticipates hard fighting in Colombia.
The receipts from internal revenue for
the fiscal year which will end this
month will not exceed $4,000, 900,
which is 100000 short OF the esti-
mates made by the treasury department.
Had it not been for the postponement for
seven months OF the collection OF taxes due
on spirits in bond, the receipts would have
reached nearly $118,OOO,O0O. For the
eleven months ending with May the total
receipts were over $4,000, 900 short OF the
amount received for the corresponding
eleven months OF the preceding fiscal year,
the entire loss being in the receipts from dis
titled spirits.
As u result OF the recent adjustment
OF salaries, the postmaster general has rel
egated 134 presidential postOffices to the
grade OF fourth offices. This is done through
the decrease in receipts Of the postofices.
Among the number thus set back were the
following: Mayville, Pembina, and Tower
City, OAK; Chatfeld, Kasson, Little Falls,
and Redwood Falls, MINI. The president
has appointed Samuel B. Evans, at Ottun-
| wa, Iowa, vice A. H. Hamilton, suspended,
and V. E. Brewer, at Portage, Wis, vice G.
T.. Dow, suspended. These and other post
masters were suspended for partisanship.
Bradstreets Journal OF the 9th, in it's
commercial summary says: From the
leading business centers, reported by tele-
graph to Rradstreet's, word comes that
trade continues quiet and singularly free
from speculative movements. Surplus funds
at the banks at New York, Boston and Chi
cago, show no signs OF growing smaller, and
the demand for money at the interior has
| not yet equaled the expectations. The vol
ume OF merchandise moving is made up Of
hand to-mouth purchases.
-
bers' convention in St. Louis is said to be
! George r. Phillips Of Providence, r. /. He
represents the oldest plumbing establish
ment in America, founded in 1903. Mr..
Phillips is fOrty-fOur years old, and an &C.
tive participant in the affairs OF Providence.
He is a member OF the Squantum club, an
exclusive society, whose 1870 members re-
present $40, 100000.
When Buffalo Bill applied to Secretary
Lamar for permission to take Sitting Bull
around the country as part OF the show,
the secretary consented, and said ne wished
that he would also take Red Cloud and DR..
Bland. So far as Sitting Bull was concerned,
the secretary thought it would have a good
effect upon him to let him travel, see the
country and minge with the people.
The cost Of the stationery to be supplied
for the interior department. during the next
fiscal year will be $47,S91 a reduction OF
over $31, 900 as compared with the ex
penditure for the same purpose last year.
The supply OF gold pens upon requsition
is regarded by Secretary Lamar as extravar
gance, and will be discontinued.
Miss Ellen Dempsey, daughter" of the
New York Seventh reg ment, at the re-
quest of her mother has been placed in a
mental life is not exercising a very salutary
influence upon the girl. Ellen is adorned
With q great amount of red hair.
At the commencement at Yale College,
| New Haven, Vice President Hendricks ad.
! dressed the law students on the subject,
1.-THE Supreme Court OF the United States
| and the Influences that Have Contributed
Is Make it the Greatest Judicial TTribu !nAas1
in the Worla:'' - - go: $50 : '.'''''
E. 3. Palmer OF New Haven, student,
aged twenty-five years, who left that city
for Jersey City on June II, and who was to
have returned Sunday night, appeared at a
| farm house in Albany county, N. Y, Wednes.
! day, In a dazed and helpless condition, hav
ing been drugged and robbed.
Under the French enQliatiQp aet re
Gently passed by congress-, James Anderson
and Ills sister, Lille Anderson, of the Falls
| Of Schuylkill, Pa, grandchildren Of Capt
which tell into the hands Of the French, arr
entitled to s7o,a|a,o.
The postm aster at Beaufort, s.. G., q
colored man named P. e. Ezekiel, has given
such satisfaction that no Dem ocrat is try
ing TO get his place, and the community are
opposed TO q fhangR:
Judge stallo OF Cincinnati, when asked By
q reporter 1.-The would accept the mission tc
Rome, remarked quickly, u must first cor,
cult my wite, = $3.50;
Roscoe Gonklin has been in the habit g
working mil g g; and d F3siag st a ;;1P
Neyertheless his health j. 81. impaired thai
be has had to 90 abroad: