St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-29

$4,000 to the benevolent Institution
at New Orleans called the Louisiana
State lottery. 1t does not matter
whether crops are good or bad, times
hard or as easy as floating down the
big river, the regular monthly stream
flows to the Southern absorbent. About
six years ago 10000 prize was report
ed to have fallen to military man i'll
the Bismarck region. and this has been
a leading cause for the contribution of
probably ten times that amount from
North Dakota. There have been Occa-
Sional small drawings in that section,
but it costs on an average over ten dol
lars to secure one in return. If it took
ten bushels of wheat on the average for
the producer to grow one, the produc-
ton of wheat would soon cease. There
are hundreds of persons in North Da-
kota who contribute their one or two
dollars month to this lottery, year
after year, with more regularity than
they pay their preacher.
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The story about grading wheat as
frosted where there had been no frost
has a chestnut flavor, but there is
slight change in the case of j. Ii. Nc
ROSTIE, of Blanchard, as vOuched for
by the HillsbOrO Banner. He sent
samples of last years wheat to Min
neapolis which came back graded
Badly frosted, grading No. 3" while
sample of this years was thought pretty
fair quality and graded No. l.
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Some of the papers are troubled
because Mr.. HARDEN is not talking
much about division and admission in
his speeches. Are the Republicans
voluble on that line since the nOmina-
ton of MATTHEWS? Who has heard
even CAMPBELL open his mouth on the
subject? 1t will be time enough to take
up that subject after the election.
There should then be determined drive
made for statehood in some shape. The
situation will be easier to define after
the 9th OF November.
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Since the result of the Maine election
has been known Col. PLUMMER most
ungenerously spOils the compliment
paid him of modesty and proximity to
facts. He initiates the oracle, BLAINE,
in fanciful boasts, asserting that the
Republican majority was over $4,000,
and the plurality $4,000, the largest
since the war. He adds 1000 to the
true figures. This is not very impOr-
tant in itself. An inch more or less on
mans nose is not much, but it affects
its contour very materially. In Maine
it was not the fact of majority that
was important, but its size, as a straw
showing the popular current. When
the colonel deliberately adds 1000 in
order to sustain claim, it causes
painful loss of confidence in his veracity.
AS a sounding cymbal of the great ter
ritOry, all parties took pride in Col.
PLUMNIER. 1t has been believed that
he could use facts when Voluminous,
but a shade of lachrymose doubt is now
thrown over that belief. 1t is possible
that the little brown jug came in use
after the election, and its exhilaration
has affected his pencil, as well as
mouth.
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Some of the papers are still repeating
the absurd little fiction that Mr.. HAIR
DEN refused 10 address the Farmers
alliance in one of the counties until he
was paid SIS for the effort. That isn't
as good as the story that the candidate
requires his wife to work in the field
while he travels. Somehow Candidate
HARDEN is disturbing the political
comfort of good many people just at
present.
1t is claimed that Mr.. MATHEWS
should receive the vote of the farmers
because he has stock in creamery at
his home. Can he make butter?
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The Mouse river region seems to be
one of the few sections where chicken
hunters found plenty of game this sea-
son. One party of railroad men are
said to have brought away 600 of the
fayOrite birds.