St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-25

go. PLUAIMER has been intending to
get I'm some vocal work in the SPRINGER
district, and, by the way, he has amend
ed his phraseology and DOW speaks of
MOODY as the supercilious old ass, but
the S. o. a. is trying to steal march on
him. He wants the notoriety to be OBJ
tanned by throwing Dakota at SPRINGER
at his home. 1t is to be hoped PLUM
MER will manage to slide down into
Illinois, also, about the time MOODY is
there. If they tell what they think of
each other they can at least make their
periods pointed.
The impression that Dakota is not a
corn country is not consistent with the
statement of the local paper at Alpena
that one of the most dainty damSels OF
the place was able to eat twenty-one
young ladies of Dakota are quite ro-
bust and have good appetites. the de-
mand for this staple must be enormous.
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Gen. HUGH j. CAMPBELL is given the
credit of developing a scheme for a
mighty canal system in Dakota. Its
precise location is not stated, but it is
probably big ditch between North and
South Dakota.
There is a suggestion of old gang
times in the report from Hyde county
that a written contract existed between
the chairmen of the Republican and
Democratic county committees to share
all the public Doodle. and as the county
is Republican this required the 2epub-
lican to sell out to the Democrats. The
special novelty of the transaction was
that the trade was put in writing.
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One of the most notable of Col. PLUM
MER's witticiSms in his Grafton speech,
his master effort in Dakota, was the ref
erence to the Democratic party as "a
good judge of imported Holland gin"
The colonel was a Democrat a good
many years, and if there was any man
III the party an adept in sampllng bev-
erages, he wore PLUMBERS shoes. But
gin was never popular Democratic If
rlgant, and the veteran imbiber was
perhaps about changing politics when
he acquired his knowledge of gin. He
always wipes his mouth unctuously as
his mind dwells upon the little brown
jug down in Maine that makes him glad
once in four years. Whether it con-
tains Holland gin or plain New England
rum is not stated. The colonel is there
n n RI q
tive job for the campaign from the ma
tional committee. He has good many
friends in all parties, who are pleased
when he gathers in his harvest. If
these national elections came oftener
the jolly old chameleon would revel in
fairness.
Judge BENNETT, of BOttineau. on the
northern border, was in st. Paul this
week. He stated as singular fact that
while there was no frost to speak of in
his vicinity, there was quite severe
one some distance south. There is
hardly precedent for frost in that sec
ton so early as this season-the Sth of
August. AS it is an occurrence seen
but once in lifetime, and the big crops
pull through robustly i'll all other years,
it cannot be scored against the country.
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The talented young attorney at Fargo,
l.. G. JOHNSON, feels aggrieved at the
mention in GLOBE Fargo dispatch that
some parties there had prefixed anarch-
list to his name. He has often been re-
ferred to in that way in Fargo papers,
but no one SuppOseS the word is used in
the Chicago sense. He has probably
been disciple of the heavy man run
ming for the council, and became dis
organizer of political parties. He is a
nominee of one of the new elements,
and it is hoped will prove an iconoclast,
if no anarchist, among the ancient polit-
ical crCckery.
The railroads have always been the
most vigorous advertisers of the at
fractions for settlers, and have sue
ceeded i'll settling the regions along
their lines very rapidly. The past year
or so the Northern Pacific has given
special attention to Washington and
Oregon. and has had its cars crowded in
the long haul through Dakota and Mon
tana, not altogether to the satisfaction
of the two latter. Some of these home
seekers have returned to Dakota, dis
satisfied with the coast region. They
report some valleys of great fertility
and attraction, but not in the reach of
the man of small means. His best hold
is unquestionably in Dakota. 1t is
thought time for the great road to give
its special attention to the Dakota
country. 1t will undoubtedly consult
the interest of the newcomers by so
doing, even if it does not gain the I'M
mediate advantage of the long haul.
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There may be no scientific theory to
support the claim, but the observation
of the settlers during the short period
the country has been occupied seems
to warrant the assertion that the eli
mate west of the Missouri is undergoing
a change. Rainfalls were once almost
unknown in the growing season; now
they are frequent, and this year copl-
Gus. Large crops are now grown on
lands once supposed to be incapable of
cultivation for lack of rain. A Black
Hills paper, in noting this fact, also
states that it is attended with the disad-
vantage that winter range for stock is
becoming a thing of the past. The
character of the grass changes. The
buffalo grass that cures upon the ground
and affords winter forage disappears,
and is followed by the blue joint of the
prairies of the South. This will bring
in farming era to take the place of
grazing. The country will fill up and
develop as it would not otherwise.
Probably no part of the territory has