The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-11-25
NOTES AND. COMMENTS.

The News. Tribune alleges that
Hon. Chas A. Towne may be
puv up by the Frsionists against
Senator Davis for U. S. Senator.
The U. S. Peace commission
has practically said to Spain
*"Heads I win; tails you lose."
And now the commission awaits
the pleasure of the Dons, with
but little interest as to which
they may choose.
Eugene V. Debs, the great la :
Dor leader and orator, is making
a.tour of the country, lecturiDg
at Bessemer, Mich.. this eve
ming.
B. J. Mosier, of Saltwater, is
reported as being the prospec.
tive appointee of Gov. Lind as
surveyor of logs for the Still
water district. Mr.. Mosier is
known to scores of people on the
ranges as a hustling cigar agent,
and an irreproachable democrat.
A novel bet is reported to
have been made in Duluth on
Saturday, a prominent Repub.
lican of that city wagering SO
to 81 that John Lind and Chas.
A. Towne would in 1900 be the
Republican nominees for Cover
nor and Congressman from the
Sixth District, respectively.
| M. H. Martin, Of Virginia, who
was a candidate for county treas
urer on the Fusion ticket,
aspires to the position of assist.
ant dairy inspector, the birth
now occupied by A. Snyder,
says the Duluth Herald. Mr.,
Martin says that he considers
himself qualified to distinguish
between butter and oleomargar-
inc.
A year ago the Duluth harbor
was filled with ice, but thus far
this season the boats have come
and gone and ole loading has
been conducted with the same
ease as during the summer
months.
Power & Simpson, who are
building about IS miles of rail-
way from Hibblng northwest,
will be running trains over the
line soon after Jan. /. This Will
make through line from Du-
luth to the waters of the Big
Fork, navigable for small craft,
and connecting directly by that
river with the Lake of the Woods
and Rat Portage.
Boys playing in the Northern's
pasture Monday afternoon, says
the Cloquet Pine Knot, were not
a little surprised to behold fine
antlered buck contentedly graz :.
ing with John ODonnel's COWS.
Much excited they took after it,
but for time the stately animal
paid no attention to them. Then
it lazily leaped the pasture fence
| the paling of which it cleared at
an easy bound. At a gentle
lope it leaped the pickets again,
and trotted leasurely down the
road to the lake.
This year the corn husks are
uncommonly thick, the fur on
the muskrat is long and heavy,
and the goose bone has more
spots on it than a leopard. All of
these are signs. Tue winter is
going to be extraordinary cold
or long, or it is going to be mild
and open and hot, or perhaps it
is going to be neither. These
signs Can never 'be read Alright
until the winter is about over.
Then they come out with START
ling plainness and every one can
see just what they mean. In
this respect the moon is good
guide to go by. When she hangs
low with both horns up, it is
either going to be wet or else it
IS going to be dry No one has
ever decided which one is cor
rect. We take great account Tin
these signs, but just what they
mean we are unable to state.
/ The Duluth Herald desires 10
know what should be done to
enhance The prospects of Du.
luth's future. Kill off the po-
lltical- hogs; start a reliable,
morning paper; get trades union
ism-which is perfectly right so
long as its principles are used,
not abused--to that point where
foreign investors do no fear
them; cultivate the acquaintance
and friendship of your range
neighbors and impress upon
vonr hnsinaSS fratornitv that