The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-07-16
Miscellaneous News Note @


There is to be a railroad from Chadron.
Neb, to tho Black Hills:
Bradstpeet $ estimates, ll6, 900, 900 BUSH
els Of old wheat on hand July /.
The Northern Pacific Ia trying the exper-
iment OF chartering steamers from Japan
for Portland.
The New Hampshire legislature passed to
a second reading the bill to establish a whip
ping post for wife bcaters.
Capt. I. w. Griffith OF Des Moines, has
been displaced rs deputy revenue collector
by D. H. Hooker OF Dallas county.
The statue of Garfield, by Mediums, was
accepted by the committee at Columbus,
oAid and Se il9 was paid $4,000 for tho
work.
While excavatins On his farm 94 the
Sioux, about four miles northwest OF Sioux
Falls, Dakota, Il. II. barrow discovered a
four-foot ledge OF mica. The mineral is re-
markably clear.
Harry Elmere, g middle-aged widow OF
San Francisco has commenced a breach OF
promise suit for $225,O0O against Moses
Hopkins, aged seventy, brother Of the late
Mark Hopkins, the raj lroad magnate, from
whom he iRherithd $9,0o0,Q0Q:
Forty-six railroads reporting their earn
ings through the Financial Chronicle, show
total for june OF $14, 800, 900, a decrease
OF $4,000 or 5 per cent on mileage OF
roads earned $SS,391, S02, a decrease OF
$1,679,S48.
Cholera-stricken Murcia has it's hero in
Count de Vale, one OF the wealthiest land
owners OF the province. He goes fearlessly
about among the sick. and has already
given away all his ready money and has
begun to mortgage his estates to aid the
helpless victims OF the epidemic.
Miss Carrie Worther OF Salisbury, Mass,
has brought Il suit for $1S, 600 damages for
breach 0f promise, against Dorsey w. Hyde,
a distinguished resiqent Of Plainfeld, la:
She claims that Hyde promised to marry
Clark OF New Jersey. The Hydes are very
rich.
Warren Potter, postmaster at Aitkin,
Mimi, who distinguished himself by paying
an election bet with Barrett by wheeling
tho latter about town and to the depot, &C.
companieq by brass band and yoke OF
oxen has been Permi to step down and
out OF his office, and the place filed by Mr..
Barrett.
At Hagerstoyn, Nd, Rose Hager's M other
was opposed to her marriage with ] C. Whit:
more, and locked her in another room on
her wedding day, the expectant groom be-
ing summarily dismissed. The followingday
she was sent to her aunt's, but followed her
lover to Chambersburg, Penn, where they
were married.
At Jefferson Iowa, after the performance
Of Sells Brothers circus, the entire company,
headed by their brass band, marched to the
grave OF Yankee Robinson, the veteran
Snowman, where, after music by the band
an grafton was delivered by Harry Eyarts
and donation was made for the purpose
oi purchasing a monument to mark the
resting place Of the deceased Snowman.
Cyclone pits have promoted schism in a
Milton county (Ga.) church. Some Of the
members had dug and fitted up such places
OF refuge which were considered by the ma:
jority Of the brethren asa fragrant violation
OF their doctrine and 9 temptation to God
the pit qiggers are more fearful Of cyclones
than OF the wrath OF God, they organized
themselves into q church under the name
OF the Cyclone Frimitives.
The Missouri Republican OF recent issue
says: ''Parson' Davies, who is plotting
Burke around the country, says he will
match him against any man in the country
except Sullivan. slack is the only man
who tells the truth about Sullivan" he
said. "He was eager to meet the big fellow,
and they met and now Jack is frank
enough TO say JnaC 0ulHFHn can Wnlp MN
or any other man on earth. After the Sec
ond round in the Sullivan fight, Jack said:
'41e CANT whip me- But after the third,
when he was knocked downs or seven
times, he" thought differently. You see
Sullivan has got just as much science as
any other man, and he is a good deal lar
ger, and consequently has heavier hitting
we can't.
During the progress OF q free Meth dist
camp meeting near Coldwater, Michigqp,
q respectable lad y got the 'power, "apd lay
in trance for several hours, whelnq. a ply
stefan advised her rem oval-at which pro
eseding the minister, he Rev. Robert Clarke,
objected, and resorted to forcible meassures
to prevent: 4 com plant for assault and
battery was lodged against bins him, and whepq
arrested by the sheriff Re readily accepted
the situation and prepared TO accompany
the officer to town, when the Rev =;
Matthews the presiding elder, interposeeq
and proposed to rescue Clafke: Duringths
melee both the sheriff and Matthews Werg
quite seriously bruised, and blood was
drawn on both, and with drawn revolver
the sheriff and his deputy took Matthews
als9 into custody for resisting an officer.