The Northern Pacific Farmer du lieu suivant : Wadena, Minnesota • Page 2

fi Site A. H. BEREMAN, Publisher. WADESA, MINNESOTA The fact that we have to go to England to buy two ships with which to organizes Arctic expeditiqn is a striking illustration of the poverty of our own country in this respect. If time permitted we could no doubt build the 3els desired, but a crisis finds us wholly barren of resources.

There arc, it is co be a few staunch shipsleft in the American whale and seal fisheries, but they are mostly of antique type and illy adapted to the service of cruising in polar latitudes. The experience with the Yantio seems to have satisfied the government that no ship in the navy is adapted for this work. The destruction of property during the winter by fires, floods, tornadoes and other causss bien almost unprecedented, and to this calamitous records must be adtlad serious I03S Mr. Valentine, agont of the Wells, Fargo Express company, estimates the gold product of the last year at $28,296," GiO, and the silver at The protraction of silver does not vary ma terially from that of years. Recent important gold discoveries in the northwest, and more efficient mining in other sections, are expected to make the gold product almost if not quite equal to the silver.

Whatever may be said of silver there is no danger of a glut of gold. The precious yellow metal promises tc hold its old time relation for many years to come. The vast amount used in plate and ornaments is not likely to be decreased as the country becomes richer aqd more populous. There is a good deal of dissatisfaction in Manitoba arising from various causes, and sensational newspapers are endeavoring to make a few pennies by inculcating the idea that a revolution is at hand that wiil disconnect that province from the Dominions and annex it to the United States. This is the boldest as Greeley would say, that can be imagined.

The same sort of stufl formed the staple of unprincipled newspapers in regard to the Riel outbreak, a few years ago. Sensible people should not be deceived by such nonsense. The integrity of the British Empife is not at all endangered. It will be maintained at any cost of treasure and blood and against all odds. This is a fact, lament able, perhaps, but nevertliless a fact.

Tho iutemperate use of spiritual liquors, in some of the larger towns, is not so common this winter as usual. Nearly all the first class saloons are provided with Liebig's extract, and men when asked to "take a drink" do not hesitate to repudiate five cents and call for a glass of "boef tea." The hot water craze has also been a good Nothing is more common than the call foi goblets of hot wator, which is leisureiv sipped, and a nickel handed over the counter. Steady drinkers confess that hot water is soothing to a stomach tliat has been inflamed with liquor, and that its effect in cleansing the kidney sis marvelous. Be this as it may, thousands hug the belief that bsef tea and hot water is better than who shall sav that it is a delusion. When the Forty-sixth Congress passed the act cutting the duty off quinine the dealers threatened that tha price should not be reduced, and for years an effort was made to retain through a business combination, the charges which legislation had interfered with.

The monopoly was successful for a time, but has now come to grief, owing to the copious supply of the drug which has become too large for control. The break in the confederation has been followed by a drop in the wholesale price of the drug about fifteen and still further reductions are looked for. As quinine in some parts of the country may be said to rank as one the necessities of life, and as it is everywhere in use as one of the most valued remedies, this failure to neutralize legislation and keep up prices is a source olwide rejoicing. The Washington monument at the national capitol has now attained a height of 410 feet, and there is on hand a sufficient amount of money, about $150,000, to complete the obelisk to its apex, which, at the total height of 555 feet above the base line, will overtop all other structures in the world. The aggregate amount of the various Congressional appropriations for this work is $900,000 and about $200,000 has been contributed by private citizens and local organizations throughout the country.

A late number of Harper's Weekly had a page picture of over fifty of the tallest structures in the world, showing the relation of each to the others, and the Washington monument reached far above all the rest. Yet, seen anywhere save at it3 base, its height is hardly realized, portly from the fact that it is on the lowest ground in Washington. Were it on an elevation, like the capitol, or even the White House the effect would be different. But it is observed by all observers, with wonder and delight, and probably will continue to arrest the attentions of many generations of patriotic Americans as well as people of other lands. The following is from the San Francisco Commercial Herald and Market Review, which speaks in enthusiastic terms of the future of California as a wheat producer: "In the great valley of valleys watered by the Sacrainento and San Joaquin rivers there 30,000,000 61 acres of lands suitable for wheat, and al least 20,000,000 of acres can be depended on in good seasons to produce twentyfive to thirty bushels per acre.

Some of the lands that now yield that haye been under cultivation for thirty-five years. In some instances the lands hare produced thirty to fifty bushels per acre. By plowing a little deeper every yeai they will continue to yield folly and without fertilizers, which hare nevei been employed in California. The soil of the valleys is practicably inexhaustible. The wheat of California is hard and dry by nature, and is preferred is 'England and the contiment of Europe for purposes of mixing to most others so that there is a never failing market.

The summer and fell being dry, then is no special ae4d of or graneries andthesettlerissaved these expense thatafe abaoluj4y Ftomnfis of life, ticularly at the Shutli. And added to all is the long list of business misfortunes which have produced a great deal of apprehension for the future and much actual distress. It has not been a cheerful winter, by any means, and every body hails the advent of spring with delight and with exulting confidence in the prospects of better times and of measurable exemption from the troubles that have attended the rigors of the winter season. -r gneci In the senateon tho 25th, a Joint resolution ru offered appropriating for sufferrs by the recent southern cyclones. The KcPherson bill providing for the circulation of lational batiks to The McPherson bill, as it passed the Senate, saB follows: Be it enacted, eta," That upon any deposit ilready or hereafter made by the United States bonds, bearing interest, in the manner required py law, any national banking, association making the same shall be entitled to receive from she controller of the currency circulating notes different denominations in blank, registered tnd countersigned, as provided by law, and not exceeding in whole the amount ox par value of bonds deposited provided, that at no time shall the total amount of such notes issued to any rach association exceed the amount at such dme actually paid in of itsvapital stock, and that all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions or this act be and the same are hereby repealed.

That associations organized for the purpose jf issuing notes payable in gold, under the provisions or section 5185. Bevised Statutes of the United States, upon the deposit of any United States bonds, bearing interest, with the treasurer of the United States, shall be entitled to receive circulating notes to the amount and in the manner prescribed in the act for other national banking associations. Senator Harrison introduced a bill of great importance to soldiers and their widows. It provides a pension for all soldiers who served luring the war of the rebellion in the military yt naval service for a period of six months and were honorably discharged, provided they are aow disabled. The President sent to the senate the following nominations: Horatio C.

BurchartL Illinois, director of the mint Commodore William Q. ple, rear admiral of the navy. Begisters of Land C. Tiffany, 3rand Forks, Alonzo H. Church, North Platte, Neb.

Edward S. Butler, Neligh, Neb. Receivers of Public J. Forks, Dak. William B.

Lambert, Neligh, Neb. Samuel W. Sherify.Los Cruces, New Mexico. The Senate confirmed Frank C. C.

Lord, collector of internal revenue, district of Nevada William B. Wheaton, register of land office, San Francisco Emanuel G. Swanstorm, receiver of public moneys, Duluth. A resolution was adopted in the house for ap inquiry as to whether the act of the Dakota legislature taking railroad property does not conflict with the organic act establishing that territory. A joint resolution was presented appropriating $80,000 more for the Ohio river flood sufferers.

Bills and resolutions were introduced prohibiting foreigners from acquiring or owning lands in the United States authorizing the coinage of silver dollars and fractions thereof under the metric system, gold metric dollars and other coins establishing an inter-state railway transportation bureau for the regulation of commerce with foreign nations and unong the states appropriating 9500,000 for persons made destitute by the overflow of the Mississippi river and tributaries. The pleuropneumonia bill was discussed, and Mr. Hatch of Missouri, a democratic member, ridiculed the Democrats for always following the wake of the Bepublican party. A bill by Mr. Nelson, to provide for the examination and survey of the Bed River of the North and Minnesota nver, with the view of improving and connecting them with the navigable waters of the same, and to appropriate a sufficient sum of money therefor.

A bill by Mr. Washburn in the house to-day authorizing the construction of a foot carriage, and railroad bridge across the Mississippi river it some point between Fort Snelliag and St. Anthony falls in Minneapolis. A bill" was reported to the house to-day providing for a civil government for Alaska also a bill requiring Pacific railroad companies to pay the cost of the survey of their lands. Mr.

Raymond of Dakota introduced a bill authorizing the city of Aberdeen to purchase a quarter section of land near that city also a bill granting to the Chicago, Milwaukee St Pauf railway company the right of way through the great Sioux Indian reservation also a bill to create anew land district in Dakota. In the senate on the 36th the bill for the re lief of Fitz John Porter was reported favorably and made a special order for March 12. The bill which recently passed the house was referred to this committee which amended it by substituting the bill passed by the senate last session. By the terms of the latter Gen. Porter is simply placed on the retired list with the rank of colonel, and prohibited from receiving any pay, compensation, or allowance, prior to bis appointment.

In the house bill he is to retain "the rights, titles, and privileges held by him at the time of his dismissal from tho army but this clause is eliminated from the amended bill A joint resolution was adopted thanking the zovernmentof Great Britian for it3 gift to the United States of the steamer Alert to aid in the relief of the Greely party. The bill abolishing the military reservation of Fort Rice, was reported adversely and indefinitely postponed. Fhe bill authorizing the construction or additional steel vessels for the navy was debated In executive session the senate confirmed: Boratio C. Burchard, Illinois, director of the mint: Eugene O. Fecht, Michigan, consul at Paso Del Norte Daniel B.

Dyer, Kansas, agent of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians, Indian Territory Henry Lawton, Texas, agent of Indians, Guapard agency, Indian Territory. Postmaster, William J. Sullivan. Leon, Iowa. In the house nothing but routine business was done, and the greater part of the day was devoted to the discussion of the pleuro-pneumonia nilL Mr.

Cox (N. asked unanimous consent for the immediate passage of the senate joint resolution expressing the appreciation of congress and the peooleof the United States of the genarons act of her Britannic majesty's government in presenting to the United States the arctic steamship Aiert Mr. Robinson (N. was on hand, however, to interpose objecnons On the 27th Mr. Blair introduced a bill to axtend the time for the completion of railroads west of the Mississippi river to which grants of public lands have been made, which in good faith, are prosecuting the work of construction, without the forfeiture of Buch grants.

The debate was participated in by Messrs. Jones McPherson, Hale, Cockrell and Beck. The latter criticised the management of the navy yards and referred to the statement of Admiral Porter, that on one occasion 980,000 had been charged to. the wrong ship. He said no one could tell but what that money might have been given to Dorsey to take to Indiana.

In the house Mr. Phelps, of the committee on foreign affairs, reported back the Barnum resolution directing the committee to inquire whether the minister of any foreign power endeavored to nullify the effect of the unanimous resolution of the house by reflection on the honor and integrity its members. The resolution was accompanied by a report stating that the committee made an investigation, but had been unable to obtain any information on the subject, and asks to be excused from any further consideration of the resolution. The report was agreed to without discussion, and the committee discharged from further the subject Mr. Bingham, committee on postoffices and post roads, reported adversely the bill to prevent the use of the United States mails to advertise noxious and compounds.

Laid on the table. The house went into committee of the whole, with Mr. Cox (N. X) in the chair, on the pleuropneumonia bilL Mr. Throckmorton moved to strike out the enacting clause of the bilL to 114.

debate continued all the afternoon, and was rather dreary. The consideration of the bill being concluded, the committee rose and reported it to the house. The first question was on the amendment striking ont the fourth section. Pending action, the house adjourned. In the senate on the 28th Mr.

Ingalls introduced a bill to remove the injunction of secrecy from the court martial that tried Gen. Fitz Joh Porter, in order that members of it may give the details to ihepublic and testify to the case if called upon. The senate resumed consideration of the bill to authorize the construction of steel vessels, Messrs. McPherson, Jones (Fla.) and Miller taking part in the debate. The latter was in favor of making a liberal appropriation for building a navy.

Senator Sabin presented a number of joint resolutions adopted by the Minnesota legislature, asking congress for an immedate adjustment of lands granted to railroads in Minnesota urging the necessity of appropriations for the improvement of the Mississippi river: asking for a bill making the laws of tne United States conform with the laws of the state with regard to Judgment liens en Teal estate asking for an appropriation for the construction of a bridge across the St Croix river nearly opposite the village of St Croix Falls asking for the passage of an act fixing the head of navigation of the Minnesota river at New Ulm, Brown county, Minn. asking for an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor at Duluth and asking that Big Stone lake be included in the reservoir system. In executive session the senate confirmed Consuls: Max Weber, New York, Nantes H. B. Trist, District of Columbia, Mozambique George B.

Clark, Georgia, San Luis Potosi. Cornelius Palmer, Vermont, associate justice of the Supreme court of Dakota Byron C. Tiffany, register of the land office' Grand Forks, Dak. Samuel M. Sherfey receiver of public moneys, Los Luces, N.

lux. In the house on the 28th Messrs Duester and Guenther spoke on the resolutions of the Liberal Union of the German parliament regarding the action of the house of representatives on the death of Herr Lasker, and declared that they, and not the words of Bismarck, reflected the true sentiments of the German people. The pleuro-pneumonia bill to the quarantine section (the fourth)had been stricken out The bill provides that the commissioner ofagri culture shall organize a bureau of animal industry and appoint a chief thereof, whose duty it shall be to investigate and report upon the number, value and condition of domestic animals in the United and also the causes of contagious and communicatable diseases among them: and means for the prevention and cure of the same. He is authorized to appoint two competent agents, whose duty it shall be to report upon the bear method of treating, transporting and caring for animals and means to be adopted for the suppression and extirpation of contagious pleuropneumonia. The commissioner of agriculture may expend: so much of the money appropriated by this la may be neoeesaxy in paying for it Is deemed necessary to slaughter and in rach disinfection and other means that may be neoessary to extirpate disease, the authorities of: the sute ahalLnay one-half of the expenses of tba boat of iSimractton and oare of herds of oattle.

It prohibits the transportation from ana state to another of any live stock affected witfr any contagious disease, and provides for tbe proaecutton of any person violating this dollars Is appropriated ttKcarry Into effect 'the the bilL In tto senate on the 29th, Mr. Harrison, cotomittee on territories, reported favorably tfeV original providing for the-admission of the territory of Dakota. Ordered printed and recommitted. Mr Ransom of North Carolina committee or appropriations reported back adversely the resolution introduced by him last Monday ano referred to that committee, providing for an to aid sufferers by the great storms in Southern statds. The joint resolution for appropriation to aid sufferers by the recent cyoloncs in the South was on the gronnd that lo cal and state aid would suffice.

The bill for construction of steel cruisers was debated, and passed by a vote of 88 to 18. Adjourded till Monday. The president sent in the following nomina Stabel, consul general United States, Shanghai D. Wells. St Louis, James Stephens, Heckman, George W.

Keebaugh. Hunteville, Mo. James Hodkins, Appleton City, Ma In the house on the 29th, a sharp debate ove the retirement of Gen. Alfred Pieasanton occured in the house. The report from the mili tary committee was explained at length by Col.

Bayne of Pennsylvania, who made a strong argument in favor of it The bill contemplate Pleasanton's retirement as brigadier general, but the opposition manifested in some quarter compelled the friends of the bill to reduce the rank to that of coloneL This is what Pieasanton would be to-day were his name still on the army register. gallant cavalryman.is in tho in poverty, and is unable to provide for himself. The postoffice appropriation bill was reported to Mr. Townshend and referred to the committee of the whole. The house, at the evening session, passed about twenty pension bills and adjonrnea.

Tlie markets. No. 2, 2, 2, 32c. 93c bid May 1, No. No.

2 spring, No. 8 spring, c. Flax 61 ST. No. 1 hard, 99o: No.

2 hard, No. 1 regular, 90o No. 2 regular, 2, new mixed, rejected, 2 mixed, No. 3 extra, 48c No. 3, 88c.

2, 53c. Ground 18.00@18.50. Corn Baled timothy, Live Dressed Timothy Clover A RECLAIMED HERMIT. Bow Connecticut BEan Passed FortyPour Tears in Soltitude. Dingman's Ferry, Letter to the Phila.

Press. Austin Sheldon, the famous Pike county hermit, has abandoned his cave in the moantains and returned to his birth place in Connecticut to spend the remainder of his days. For many years Sheldon, the hermit," has been one of the curiosites of this region, and his cave has been visited by thousands of people. He was born at Sunnyside, in 1802, and is consequently in his eighty-secorffl year. In his boyhood he learned the blacksmith's trade, and arriving at man's estate, was married to a comely, respectable, young woman, who became insane shortly after their union.

Sheldon put his wife in a private asylum, where he supported her until she died. In 1840 he came to Pennsylvania, where he expected to engage in stock raising, but he fell into the hands oi some of the wild-land agents who infest this region, and they relieved him of all his cash and deeded him a tract of wildland in Lehman township that was not worth 10 cents an acre. "When Sheldon saw how he had been swindled out of his hard-earned money he raved like a madman and partly lost his reason. Ha took up his abode in a cave on the premises, and there he has remained ever since, desiring no human companionship until within the last few years. In 1878 he became enamored of a pretty girl living not many miles from his subterranean home, and asked her to marry him.

She indignantly refused, and her parents forbade him to come near their house. Since that time the old man has been thinking of returning to Connecticut, and when a few days ago his sister, a woman eighty years of only living to see him, she induced him to accompany her to Sunnyside, where she has a comfortable home. When, in 1877, the writer first visited the hermit's cave, the recluse was a most horrible looking object, although since then his appearance has altered for the better. He is as deaf as a post, and those who desire to question him are obliged to do so in writing. The cave in which he spent forty-four years is twelve by fourteen feet, with a gravel floor.

The furniture consists of four blocks of wood, which serve the purpose of table and chairs, and one old rocking-chair in which he sleeps. He has not slept in a bed for forty-three years, he says. He has about an acre of ground which he calls his garden, in it he grows a little com and a few potatoes. Upon these vegetables, and fruit, dried roots, and such game and iish as he can trap, the old man lived for nearly half a century. He has an old Bible which he reads every day, and he can quote chapter after chapter with wonderful accuracy.

For thirty-six years the old man never shaved or had his hair cut. He wore curious looking clothes, which he kept fastened to his person with hickory "withes" secured about his waist. He never wore a hat. For his defense against wild beasts he carried a long knife, sharp as a razor, which he made by grinding down an old file. He never read a newspaper since he came to Pike county never heard of the civil war, and never heard of Lincoln or Grant.

He asked who they were and what they did, one day last summer. Fire was discoveved early Thursday morning in the furniture store occupied by H. P. Wieland Co. and in a few minutes communicated to three other buildings adjoining it, one of which was the Merchants hotel, totally consuming three frame buildings and completely gutted the Merchants hotel.

The losses are as follows: W. Meinharts, Merchants hotel, $25,000 Thomas Whitaker, store and stock of liquors, $5,250 M. Brosseau, boarding house, $3,600, Wieland store, $1,400, stock, $5,000. The insurance on the Merchants hotel, in various companies, is $19,200. Thomas Whitaker, has $3,500, M.

Brosseau, $2,400, H. P. Wieland $2,500. Philadelphia Inquirer: Ex-Gov. Cushman E.

Davis of Minnesota, has written a "legal concordance" of Shakespeare's plays, to prove that Shakespeare was a lawyer and that Bacon could not have written his plays. Minnesota is the state of Ignatious Donnelly, the philosopher of "The Lost Atlantis." It is becoming famous men of original minds. At a recent meeting of the Lake Traverse, Sanborn Carrington railroad in Minnepolis, it decided to make Sanborn the general distributing point during the building of the road. It is now thought probable that the road will be extended north to the coal and-j timber reigons of Bottineau county, which will lengthen the road to emit 500 miles. H.

H. Matteson, publisher of a small daily sheet at Fargo, called the was up before "Judge Hudson TIE P1TI Of TBI flEWS, GoKsiu j. A. poetmaater of A bill has beea introduced to give a pension tothd iiridow of the late Gen. Kilpatridk.

seiiate Mnlirnled Corndlius Palmer as associate justice -Of the supreme court of Dakota. was recently commissioned as 'rightj Iowa. in reduced circumstances, and congress asked to grant her a pension. Postoffices established: Langlade cottnty. Postmasters commissioned: Edmund Cavileer, Pembina, Dak.

The following postoffices were recently established: Bondurant, Sawyer coUntyr Iowa ManWaring, Sawyer county, Wisconsin. The nominations of B. C. Tiffany, register, and W. 3.

Anderson, receiver at Grand Forks, have been favorably reported to the senate. The name of Hon. James Tyner is being mentioned in connection with the governorship of Dakota, after Gov. Ordway's term expires. The controller of the currency has authorized the St Paul National bank of St.

Paul, to commence business with a capital of $50,000. Louis Tasiatro, the ex-translator" of the state department, is prostrated with paralysis at Washington. He is eighty years old and starving poor. CoL.Boyal of the Forty-Eighth United States cavalry is in the city. He is detailed as president of the board of officers to consider cavalry equipments.

It is said the proposed news copyright will have no chance of going through the house, as enough members are already pledged against it to defeat it. Ex-president Gowen, of the Reading road, is succeeding in his law practice. He has a yearly retainer of $50,000 from Yanderbilt and the Reading road. Special mail service was recently discontinued to Darlington, Dakota: Mingo, Jasper county, Iowa Hillsdale Gallatin county and Lewis, Meagher county, Montana. The secretary of the treasury has given notice department will redeem bonds embraced in the 126th call prior to maturity May 1, with interest to date of presentation.

Hon. Milo White of Minnesota asserted positively that there would be no compromise in the Owatonna postmastership matter, and that he will not withdraw Judge Wheelock's name. J. B. Butler, formerly of New York, appointment clerk of the treasury department, recently mentioned as successor to Assistant Secretary New, has resigned his present position.

The movement to secure the appointment of Postmaster General Gresham to the circuit judgeship in the Seventh judicial district is a serious one, and is undoubtedly made with his consent The American government has received an invitation through the Imperial Gel-man legation at Washington to participate in the exhibition of dairy products at Munich, from 2d to 12th October, 1884. The house committee on invalid pensions has agreed to report favorably Representative Matson's bill increasiog the pension of widows and dependant parents of deceased soldiers and sailors from $8to $12 per month. Senator Sabin introduced Wednesday the Nelson bill as it was reported from the house committee on Indian affairs, to open up the Red Lake Indian reservation. This will very materially facilitate action on the bill by congress. An application has been received at the postoffice department for the appointment of Miss Lizzie Nutt as postmistress of Uniontown, Pa.

Bhe is the sister of young Nutt, recently acquitted at Pittsburg on the charge of murdering Dukes. On the mutual application of the officers concerned, the following transfers in the First infantry have been ordered: First Lieut H. T. Reed from Company to Company I First Lieut. M.

P. Mans from company I to Company B. Acting Assistant Surgeon W. H. Faulkner, U.

has been ordered to proceed from Washington to Fort Snelling, and report in person to the commanding general of the department of Dakota for assignment to duty in that department Representative Brewer was directed by the house committee on manufactures to report favorably his bill to impose a fine of not more than $100 or imprisonment of three months, on any person interfering in any way with a commercial traveler selling goods by sample. Gen. Longstreet, United States Marshal of Georgia, testified before the Springer committee recently. He denied that he was a defaulter to the government, and said, on the contrary, a proper footing of his account would show the government was indebted to him $1,000. The senate committee on public lands reported the bill for allotment of lands in severalty to Auckaro, Grosventres and Mandan Indians on Fort Bertholdi reservation, Dakota, giving each head of a family 160 acres, each single male above twenty-one, eighty acres of land, to be held in trust for tnem twenty-five years.

The postoffice appropriations bill, as prepared bythe subcommittee, which was considered Wednesday by the full committee, appropriates $45,071,900. The estimated revenues of the next fiscal year are $47,104,000 amount asked for by the department, $50,062,189 appropriation for the current fiscal year, Postoffices established: Chippewa county. Postmasters commissioned: Daniel F. Roger, Alpena, Dak. Robert Campbell, Buffalo Grove, Iowa William S.

Sevanson, Crescent, Iowa Jane Tan Antwerp, Dennis, Iowa Alfred Frazier, Honey Creek, Iowa Henry Haller, Selection, Iowa, Enos C. Kayton, Strahan, Iowa. The house committee on accounts is investigating the practice which has long been a scandal, of spending enormous amounts of money at congressional funerals. It usually costs from $4,000 to $6,000 to bury a congressman, and it very seldom costs less. More than half, in many cases two-thirds, of the money is wasted in uaeless extravagance.

The bill repealing the test oath, which recently passed the house, has been passed by the senate, after being modified by an amendment proposed by the senate judiciary committee, providing that no person who held a commission in the United States army or navy before the war, and was afterward engaged in the military, naval or civil- service of the socalled Confederate States, shall be appointed to any position in the United States. On Friday Senator McMillian presented a petition from the common council of Duluth, asking for the improvement of the Duluth harbor. Petitions were presented to the house by Mr. Nelson from Burdick in favor of the Iwagan interstate commerce bill from C. H.

Bearbin, relative to Indian traders fromW. P. Todd and others, relative to the improvement at Lake Traverse and Big Stone, and the head waters of the Minnesota and Red Rivers in Minnesota. Department of state has received information from the United States consul at Birmingham, England, that the foot and mouth disease is among cattle in almost every county in England. The secretary of the treasury has requested the secretary of state to notify United States consuls in Great Britain not to certify invoices of cattle unless after an examination of the animals by a veterinary surgeon they are satisfied that the animals are free from disease.

Senator Sabin gave a dinner party Friday evening to some Minnesota friends. It was. social gathering of old acquaintances, and was extremely enjoyable. There were present: Senator McMillan, Gen. John B.

Sanborn, Gen. R. N. McLaren Dr. David Day.

Judge Greenleaf H. R. Brill, CharleB E. Otis, W. D.

Cornish. Horace Thompson, R. F. Crowell, W. R.

Mernam of StPauL C. H. Nelson and S. R. Stimson of Stillwater, Charles Johnson of Minneapolis and J.

Bookwalter of Pembina, Dak. Pensioners in all parts of the country are sending mammoth petitions to congress protesting against any change in the present manner of disbursing pensions. A bill is pending providing for a consideration of severrl of the pension agencies and this has raised a great commotion amongst those interested. Members of congress, beside being requested to present the petitions of Grand Army and other soldiers' organizations, are personally appealed to by pensioners to use their influence to prevent any such step being takea Points. Wah Lee of Louisville has married a Dutch woman.

The steamer City of Chicago took over $500,000 gold. Mrs. Amer of Philadelphia left to the Catholic schools. Capt Dozier of Winterville, has 15,000 cigars thirty years old. Lieut Schwatka, now in Portland, thinks Lieut Greely and party are safe.

limit Schultz can have a sf berth on the president's steamer, the Dispatch. W. G. Rooeeboom, a Union college student, has inherited $2,000,000 from his father. Admiral Shufeldt, recently retired, is to go into the service of the emperor of China.

Mrs. Mary Brown, widow of Brown of Harper's Ferry notoriety, died at San FranCisco. xf uen. mienas maaing -nuwauicee ms with publishing matter calculated to in- future home, and his family will arrive there terfere with the court in the prqseoiition June. of its duties.

He pleaded: hot John Gross and Polly Poytheoess were marand was given time show" why ne tied Tuesday in Sylvania, alter a forty should not fined and imprisoned far courtship, contempt. lbs. Boss, Philadelphia, eighty-four, is heir Gen. Malmroa predated tion as assistant secretary bf.stateflQ Mrs. John A Logan has been elected ptesithe 28th inst.

was dent of the Ladies? Garfield hospital assodaF. Nordin pppointed in his plMe, tion in place of Mrs.Windom, whoisinEurope. latter was qualified and fciftdptfofi the frt sod suit for Gen. Pope intends making Milwaukee his Ex-SeutorSpmcer has retainedGor. Bont- $50,000 dances, against Attorney Brewster arrest Leader a son of Albert I).

Richardson, killed by McFarland, was York Monday the25thito Miss Lillian Helen Stewart William Zinkiam saved Mrs. iftarnuMrs life when she slipped, in the river at New York. She lias sent him a gold medal and 4 ring containing three diamonds. Mrs. Shanks df' Milwaukee wants $10,000 from a Chicago flnn Who accused her of trying to pass- baa half dollar, the same being one they had given her in change.

Fred Douglass made some sort of settlement with Miss Sprague, his housekeeper, and the suit against him has been withdrawn. The terms have not been disclosed. A ninety-twd-year-old citizen of Clay county, N.C., carries the name of-Alexander Gumbleton Ruffleton Scuffleton Oberda Whittleton Southenhall Benjamin Franklin Squires. It is reported that Ex-gov. Gear of-fowa is about to re-engage in the wholesale grdcery business in Burlington, a business which he abandoned upon entering public life.

Mrs. Paran Stevens has caused an excitement in a New York art gallery, necessitating the sending for a police officer by the proprietress, Mrs. Gibbons, who averred that the niiU lionaire widow used outrageous language. Lieut Harber was sent to Annapolis nineteen years ago by President Garfield. A banquet and ball was given the lieutenant at Youngstown, Ohio, his native place, to celebrate his safe return With the bodies of theDe Long party.

The death of Nellie Hazletine Paramore, at one time the belle of St Louis, is now said to have been caused by narcotic poisoning. Mr. Paramore states that his wife had taken twentyone grains of morphine, which of course, was a fatal dose. Leila Cahir, countess of Glengall, Scotland, was married the 22d, at San Antonio, to G. W.

Baldwin. She lost her estate bythe failure of the Bank of Glasgow, and has been a clerk in the immigration office of the Galveston San Antonio road. CoL Terrell of San Antonio, paymaster of the department of received a letter from Gen. Mackensie, written in a clear and concise manner, in reference to business transactions. The general states that he is improveng greatly every day, and expects to be.

able to return to duty Patti tells how kissed by Gov. Crittenden of had just finished "Home, Sweet Thursday evening, when a nice-looking old gentleman, who introduced himself as Gov. Crittendon began congratulating me, and all of a sudden he leaned down, put his arms around me drew me up to him. and kissed mo. He said, 'Mme Patti, I mav never see you again, and I cannot help and before I knew it he was kissing me." At the dinner given at Wormley's Friday night, the 29th, by Senator Fair, the following notables were guests: Secretaries Lincoln, Teller and Chandler, Postmaster General Gresham, Attorney General Brewster, Lieut Gen.

Sheridan. Senators Anthony, Bayard, BecS, Butler, Colquitt, Cullom, Farley, George, Hale, Ingalls, Jones, (Fla.) Jones. (Nev.) Palmer, Piatt, Pugh, Hill, Logan, Sherman, Wilson, Williams and Vest, Justice Miller, and Gen. Beale. Foreign Flashes.

Parnellites condemn dynamites, and say they are Americans. Montreal has sixty French Catholic churches and the largest cathedral on the continent The betrothal of the Princess Elizabeth of Hesse with the Grand Duke Sergius of Russia is officially announced. The government has descided to send a courteous dispatch to America relative to the action of Americans in countenancing and assisting the dynamiters Martin Turner merchants of Glasgow engaged in the East India trade, have failed. Liabilities roughly estimated at between £400.000 and £500,000. The Spanish govern jnsnt prohibited a meeting of the republican press on March 1, for the purpose of endeavoring to harmonize and unify the barbarous discordant factions of the republicans.

The United States government presses its claim against Spain for $498,000 as a balance of awards due on account of American losses during the rebellion in Cuba, and also $600,000 for estates embargoed at the same period and not restored to their American owners. Ex-Collector Bradley, of the Emerson Manitoba custom house, and under bond on the charge of embezzling $10,000, died at Winnipeg on the 28th at the residence of Dr. Codd. He was taken seriously ill after his arrest, and the matter preyed so upon his mind that apoplexy put an end to his sufferings. C.

J. Watterbe'rg kept a hotel in Antwerp, Belguim. His wife disappeared with some 15,000 francs and $600 worth of diamonds. Franz Wonters, a physician, disappeared at the same time. Wattorberg traced tne parties to New York, and found them living together in apartments up town.

They were arrested on a charge of bringing stolen property into tho country. Wonters was held in $10,000 baiL. Mrs. Wattorberg was The London Times, speakipg. States Minister Hunt, saysVMr.

Huut wasa Southerner, honest and sturdy, and of venerable presence. He- might well have sat to a painter as a type of Puritan father. His was a prominent head amongst the crowd of diplomatists present at the coronation at the Kremlin last May. Hospitality was nowhere more freely or graciously dispensed than at his elegant villa at Moscow, over which waved the stars and stripes. A terrible tragedy was enacted the 28th, in the south of France.

A gardner named Chave, employed at a convent at Sarviane, near Marseilles was recently discharged for laziness. While the Sisters were walking in the convent grounds, and at the moment when they were in a secluded spot, Chave suddenly appeared before them, the lady superior asked mm kindly if he had found work, and Chave, without replying, drew a revolver and discharged six barrels killing the lady superior, and mortally wounding one of her companions. He then killed himself. Generals Schramm and De Wimpffen are dead. The former entered the army in 1799) when only ten years of age, before completing his twenty-fourth year was brigadier general De Wimpffen, during the Franco-Prussian war, received an order on Aug.

28 appointing him commander-in-chief in case Marshal MacMahon should be disabled. On Sept 1 during the battle of that MacMahon was wounded, he produced ms commission and assumed chief command. He at once reversed the orders for capitulation, already given, still hoping for victory. The order directing a retreat came from the emperor, and ng. from him.

Lord Randolph Churchill inquired whether the government intended to ask further powers in regard to the dynamite fiends, and whether they would ask permission to expel from Great Britain persons suspected of having connection with recent discoveries of dynamite. Several Parnellites strongly condemned the dynamite proceedings, and declared no excuse valid for such attempts upon life and property. They declared conspiracies of this nature are in no wise associated with the Irish cause, but had been hatched in America, and attempts to carry them out had been made by agents Bent from the United States. He cord of CassnaAties. The Salmi Morse inquest resulted in an accidental drowning verdict Amandas JJoyer, superintendent of Henninger's mine at Allentown, was killed by a cave-in.

Fire at Loraine, Ohio, damaged the Joel Hayden Brass compan's works to the extent of $35,000. The flouring mill of Swain Co. at Eldorado Ohio, was burned. Loss, $20,000 insurance, $15,000. Quimby's hennery at White Plains, N.

burned recently and 300- pairs of fine bred fowls worth $30 each. A fire in Memphis burn4d the store of A J. Vienna guns and amilnition. Lobs, $24,000 insurance, $18,000. A mob stopped a Louisville Nashville train to search for a prisoner they wanted to lynch for committing an Barricklos' sack factory, Brooklyn, was damaged by fire $100,000 insurance smalL Over 100 men are thrown out of employment A large warehouse filled with hemp grass seed, belonging to Thomas Brent, at Paris, was burned.

Loss, $20,000 insurance, $15,000. Thebreaking of a flat car at Cedar Creek, threw Brakemen Farrell under his train and he was fatally crashed His body was sent home to Mendota, TIT. A fire at Merrimac and streets, caused a loss of over $100,000, of which the Hawkins Machine company loses $40,000 insurance about $70,000. Maj. Gen.

Luard, commanding the Canadian militia, lies stricken paralysis at his residence in Ottawa. He had resumed his command in Canada to retain'to the British army. With examining a revolver R. T. Cromley of Winnepeg playfully poifited it at comradeThomas pulled the trigger.

The pistol was discharged and Holt was instantly killed, the bullet penetrating his heart During a funeral service at Knoxville, a porch on which seventy-five poople were standing, gave way and all fell in amass to the gronnd, a distance of fifteenfeet About thirty of them were injured more dr several very seriously. j. The opera house" at 00, Pa totally by fire. Neighboring buildings were saved with difficulty. The opera house was ojraed by Bejmoldsviile.

4 Prope and cost was whose avowed object waa to: reform the drama, and who $40,000 in that yain endeavor. $100,000, left teen miles below worth MAmity township, the 90th Jft drive against the cold wind chilled Mm The oarriage arrived at a hotel but he failed to move. Van Rex was lifted from the carriage and soon died. A snow between Gardiner Moni, SUd Ifipnmqth Hot Springs, as a sled and seven' meU were passing. The'slide carried the team and men down the mountain side a distance of 100 yards, burying them all underneath the Four were dug out safely a Swede, was dead when found, and the other two will recover.

At Omaha, the 26th, Steele, Johnson powder house, a short distance south of the southern city limits, exploded and killed four Madzen, Jack and William being over seventeen yeafs old. They were hunting around t'-e powder house and blown to pieces. The he-'-1 of one was blown off another's legs were go another's arms, were torn off, and anothers mains were scattered in every direction. How the accident happened is a mystery. The Criminal ualendar.

The Jones brothers were hanged at Ohio, for the murder of Luban Stephens. George H. Mills has been found guilty of the murder of his wife in Brooklyn a few months ago. Mrs Mansen of St Paul reported that she feared her better half had gone dn a Minneapolis spree with $9,000 in ms pocket At Geneseo, I1L, Parson Spurlock has been suspended from ghostly ministrations, because of naughtiness with a Sunday school teacher. At the Whitcomb Rochester, N.

Mrs. Bussey of Troy shot another woman, Whom she alleged was her husband's mistress the wound is not fatal George W. Wilson, who two months ago killed Policeman Bullard, of Detroit, while resisting arrest, has been convicted of ntUrdcir in the Becond degree. Mrs. Emma Jardinai received a caller in New York recently who said her husband was dead.

In the' lady's confusion he tore a diamond ear ring from her ear and rushed away. James O'Brien one of the men arrested for tho murder of William PUgh, in Philadelphia, on the night of the 9th inst, has confessed that William Casey, another of the prisoners, struck the fatal blow. George H. Fryer, who discovered the new Discovery mine, now worth $2,000,000, and sold it for $40,000, committed suicide at Denver, on the 24th. Fryer Hill, Leadville was named after him.

W. W. Davis of Monticello, 111, blackmailed W. H. Hamelle, charging him with seducing his wife, and made him sign a note for $1,000 at tho muzzle of a revolver.

Davis goes to state prison for five years. Ex-Marshal D. M. Harris was released from jail at Hillsboro, Ohio, on bail in $10,000. Harris was recently indicted by the grand jury for murder in the first degree for taking the life of Jftm Doggett, Oct 23.

William H. Haigh of Port Hope. Ont, a passenger on the Circassian from, England, was robbed on the passage of $3j000 worth of jewelry and other valuables, The theft was not discovered till the passengers landed. There is much excitement at Elizabethtown, over the outrage of Miss Corar Vannort, a respected lady living near that place, bv a negro, Miles Petty. A mob organized.

The officers barely saved Petty, hurrying liim off to Louisville. Samuel Liebachutz, a letter-carrier of the Cincinnati postoffice, has been arrested for appropriating money from letters. Evidence of his guilt was found on his person. He made no defense before the United States commissioner, and was held for trial in $1,500 bail The latest advices from Cheraw, S. are to the effect that W.

B. Cfsh has eluded the vigilance of those who were watching his father's house, and has escaped, it is thought, into North Carolina. It is rumored that the governor will issue a proclamation offering a large reward for the apprehension of Cash. Tho trial of Rev. M.

Spurlock, at Geneseo, 111., charged with falsehood, immorality and undue intimacy with Mrs. George, until recently a teacher in the Methodist Sunday school, was brought to a close the 29th. After being out fifteen minutes the committee returned a verdict of guilty. This suspends Spurlock from the ministry. George E.

Smith, corporation attorney of Union City, shot himself and will probably die. He had trouble with insurance companies for which he was agent, they alleging crookedness in his manner of doing business. A fresh agent arrived to examine into affairs when the shooting took place. Smith is married and moved in the best of circles. A special to the from Fort Yates, says Private M.

B. Swepstone of the Seventeenth United States infantry band, shot himself through the head the 21st inst, with a revolver. He was found the next morning in a shack near the post in a dying condition and conveyed to the post hospital, where he is expected to die any moment. He left a letter stating that he was tired of life and directions as to tne disposition of his personal effects. In an affray at Winston, Preston White was killed and Henry Witt and his son Tillman mortally wounded.

White and a companion named Prichell were both drunk and created a Young Witt, in attempting to'1 quell the fuss, was attacked and shot by White. Witt senior came to his assistance and was shot by Prichell During the scuffle between young Witt and White Prichell attempted to shoot Witt, but shot White through the head, killing him instantly. Prichell was arrested. Passengers who arrived at Nashville, report that when the Louisville Nashville train was near Moline station it was stopped by fifty or more men, who boarded it. All were armed with shotguns and pistols and were masked.

The leader, who was welldressed and wore kid gloves, explained that they were after a negro who outraged a young lady, and whom the sheriff was conveying to Sonora for trial The mob quickly searched the train, and not finding the prisoner fired a volley and disappeared. The sheriff had heard the mob was gathering, and had left the prisoner in jail at Elizabethtown. Miscellaneous Hews Notes. Helena, settles at 50 cents. Gen.

Gibbon is in command Gf the department of the Platte in Gen. O. O. Howard's absence. The trustees of Dartmouth college have voted to erect a library building at a cost of $50,000.

Newport, relief soup houses still dole out 3,000 loaves of bread and 6,000 pounds of meat daily. All goods hereafter made by New Jersey convicts will be stamped "Made in the New Jersey state prison." Henry Ward Beecher Baid at a high license meeting in New York that it is impossible to enforce total abstinence. E. Detrick (E. Detrick and J.

H. Nicholson), dealers in bags and twine, in San Francisco, assigned on the 29th to Jacob E. Faber. liabilities. $380,000.

Mrs. Roosevelt Schuyler of Philadelphia has begun suit for divorce. She charges her husband with desertion. Both parties are widely known in New York society. In a Boston beer saloon, with free drinks for the crowd, a wealthy New Yorker, named Col J.

Fox, was married to Hannah J. Slverett, on one day's acquaintance. The banks of New York have since Wednesday drawn $3,100,000 in gold coin from the subtreasury evidently in the belief that the yellow metal is soon to leap to a premium. Resolutions were introduced in the Mississippi house, looking to the impeachment of Gen. J.

Argyle Smith, state superintendent of education, on account of his intemperate use of whisky. Joseph Duffree of Cleveland, Ohio, has brought suit against a syndicate of West Virginia men, headed by ex-Gov. Farnsworth, to recover $30,000, the value of some land whose title proves defective. A Yenstreforeninghas been organized at Eau Claire for the purpose of collecting $1,000 as a gift to Johan Sverdrup, the untiring leader of the Liberal party in Norway. The plan is meeting with general fovor, and one man has subscribed $250.

Frank Young who was sentenced to be hanged at Helena, for the murder Dan McCarty last July, has been respited by President Arthur unt i)Dec. 27, in order that his attorneys, Vivian and Mayhew, can take his case to the United States supreme court Samuel McElroy, the well-known engineer, has let out the fact that the big Brooklyn bridge is not entirlv perfect He says: "That the cables of the East river bridge nave very considerably lengthened is shown by the fact that the suspender bands have been slipped nearer the towers by several inches. Further advices from the Cceur d'AJene district confirm the opinions already expressed as to the advisability of waiting for better weather before giving way to an atttack of the gold fever. At present the cost of livingis excessively high, accommodations are extremely bad, ana the cold weather and deep snow preclude any efforts in the search for gold. At San Francisco, two women horsewhipped D.

L. Regenberger, a prominent attorney. Regenberger was walking on Kearney street when the pair Bp rang out of a carriage, performed the deed, re-entered and drove away. The. cause is said to be expressions of the attorney resen tine the intrusion of the women in his society at a Mardi Gras ball the night before.

Two weeks ago Wiggins, the weather prophet advised Canadian and United States papers along the seaboard of two heavy storms, dangerous'to shipping, that would happen in the near future, one beginning the 27th of February, and the second and greater of the two the 26th of March. The first was true, and Friday, the 29tfc, a blizzard almost unprecedented took place, and is now blowing 13ieie were 237 failurse reported to Bradstreets during the past week, nineteen more than the proceeding week, which had one holiday twenty-three leee than the corresponding of 1868, and more than seme week in 1883. This is the first timein current year that there has been any material decrease compared with the corresponding week of 18831 About 85 per cent were those of small traders, whose capital was under $5,000. Col Goodwin of Milwaukee has returned from -Washington, where he went to take steps toward securing a George Dauber, convicted of securing a United States pension by fraud and sentenced to fiye years imprisonment He reports that the matter is well under way and promises to result successfully. vubner has served six months of his term at Chester.

HI His friends assert that his health is failing, and, that he can not long survive a life, of confinement Great excitement prevails over the discovery of a gold mine at Erin, East Tenn. While out hunting A. H. Bernathy found a cave and evidences of gold. He took a lease of, the land and is Belling lots at big profits.

0ver worth of nuggets are on exhibition in a store. Miners and railroad men are flocking in. Already there are over 200 strangers in town. Picks and shovels are in demand. The hotels are crowded.

Erin is a small place on the Louisville Nashville road, near the Tennessee river. George Booth, superintendent of J. Famechon's oil factory at Prairie du Chien, died Tuesday night from the effects' of a dose ol morphine. He had been out the night before at a ball and was considerably under the influence of liquor. Tuesday he went to his business as usual, but shortly after commencing work a sudden dizziness seized him, after which he went into a stupor and thus remained till he died.

No cause has been assigned, except that he had been of a melancholy disposition for some time, which is said to have been caused by unrequited love. The case of Robert Bailey, colored, was tried at Toledo, for marrying a white girl, contrary to the law of 1840, which imposes a fine of $100 and three months imprisonment for a white person marrying one or negro blood, 01 vice versa. A demurrer was filed by the defense that the law was unconstitutional under the fourteenth amendment The judge dismissed the demurrer, holding that tne law did not discriminate-in favor of the white race, imposing the same penalty on the person of either race marrying a woman of the opposite race. Bailey was found guilty and given the full penalty of the law. Mrs.

Jane A. Brooks, a widow said to be worth half a mill arrested at the Palmer house Chicago, Thursday night on a warrent sworn out on the allegation that she was about to leave for parts unknown. A number of years ago her husband went on the bond ol one Henry Curtis as administrator of the estate, in which Stanley B. Seaton, then a menor heir, but now a well known amateur athlete, was interested. Subsequently a suit wag brought againsji the Brooks estate, Brooks having died, as surity for Curtis, it being alleged that Curtis was a defaulter.

The jury Thursday verdict for $02,000 against the estate. Mrs. Brooks was arrested, as stated, on the allegation that she was about to leave the city for the purpose of escaping the penalty of the verdict The lady went into hysterics, from which Bhe has not rallied, and it is feared that she will die. Ball and Biver ZTotes. The widow of A.

T. Stewart has sold the Stewart Tjuilding on Broadway and Chambers street, New York, to Judge Hilton for $2,100,000. The Massachusetts legislative committee on election laws will report a bill providing thai the poll tax, as a perquisite for voting, should be abolished. Gen. Manager S.

S. Merrlil, of the St Paul system, is still confined to his residence in Milwaukee by an illness that has kept him indoors for the past week or ten days. Articles of incorporation of the Kansas City, Des Moines Northern railroad company were filed at Des Moines recently. The object is to build a road between the cities. The incorporators are chiefly residents of Missouri and Iowa.

The annual meeting of the Stillwater St Paul was held at the office of the St Paul and Duluth, by which road it is controlled. The only business done was the electien of officers and aboard of directors which resulted as follows: James Smith, president P. S. Harris, secretary and treasurer, and J. J.

Hill, S. Merrill, E. W. Winter.F. W.

Davis, D. J. Callahan and Messrs. Smith and Harris, directors. Death of a Great Defaulter.

Intelligence has been received of the death of Marshall T. Polk, ex-state treasurer, in East Nashville, Tenn. He had been ill for some days, but his death was unexpected. He was lying on the bed talking, as usual, to his family, having been up and down all day and apparently in tho same health as for eeveraJ weeks. Even his family hardly knew when died.

His son, James Knox Polk, saw his arm fall, and went to him and saw he was dead. Several physicans were called and pronounced it heart disease. He was part proprieter oi large silver mines in Mexico, which it is understood, were recently sold to a New York syndicate for A few days ago it was hinted that, through the wealth he would thus acquire, Polk could pay to the state the amount which ne had taken. A Million Fire toss. At Philadeiphia, five fires occurred during the night of the 28th, and owing to the lence of the wind and the great distance between the various alarms, the firemen found much trouble in keeping the flames under control The most disastrous was at the chemical works of Powers Weightman, the largest of their kind in the country, which were totally destroyed.

The loss will be over $1,000,000. A Chicago special says: The all-absorbing topic in drag circles was tho advance of 25 and 30 cents an ounce in quinine, caused by destruction of the Powers Weightman Chemical laboratory in Philadelphia. The jobbers there are very unsettled as to prices, but sales were made recently, at $1.65 ana $1.70. Advices from the eastern drug brokers indicate that the market there is "crazy," An Honored Name Disgraced. Thomas Crittenden, son of ex-United Marshal Crittenden, the noted Kentucky statesman, was sentenced at Louisville, to three years in the penitentiary for killing a negro boy, Rose Mosby, at Anchorage, Ky.

Crittenden was a wild, reckless youth, continually getting into trouble. The negro had testified in court against him, and when they next met Crittenden killed him with a shot gun. The sentenced man is also related to the govenor of Missouri, and on account of his family the best legal talent of the state defended him. The case attracted much attention. It was doubtful if the jury would convict a Crittenden for the murder of a negro, and the decision was watched with interest Premier Gladstone introduced in the commons a universal franchise bill designed tc strengthen the Btate by enfranchising people capable of exercising the rights of franchise.

In proposing the bill, Mr. Gladstone said: This measure, by greatly extending the franchise and placing voters in boroughs and counties upon equal footing, would increase the voting power of the United Kingdom about 2,000,000. Of this number England would furnish 1,300,000, Ireland 400,000, and Scotland 200,000. This result was certainly worth attaining. If house took abroad view of the matter, enfranchisement must bo considered desirable.

The people were trustworthy, and, as voters undei the constitution, were the strength of the constitution. If this measure should become a law, then their constituents would form a compact mass, who would rally round the throne which they all loved so well, and to support the constitution, which would be stronger than ever. Attempted Double Murder in Dakota. Parker, town is excited over at attempted murder at Finlay, five miles southeast of that place. A man named Matl Miller has been living during the winter with an old couple in Woodbury county, Iowa, and induced them to sell their farm in Iowa and come with him to Dakota, representing that he owned a farm that they could work, tfhej bought two teams, took the rest of their money.

and aU three started for the territory, arriving at Finlay, he induced them to go to an 'ola house which has stood vacant for along time. telling them they could stay in it all night and in the morning go 00 to his farm. Miller alighted from the wagon, and as the old gentleman gol out Miller dealt him a heavy blow on the head with a club. A squabble ensued, during which Miller procured an ax and attacked the man, knocking him senseless, and then attacked the woman, knocking her down. Ho did not get any money, but turned to run away just as the old woman waa reviving.

She soon found hei husband, who was also recovering his senses, and the two went to another house over a mile away, giving the alarm to the neighbors, whe immediately came to the place, and notified the sheriff, and he is now in pursuit It is supposed that Miller intended to murder them both, take their money, and leave the country, but was frightened some way. A Great Express Suit. The Wells Fargo Express company has notified the Northern Pacific that they shall require cars and conveniences for doing an express business throughout the entire line of the Northern Pacific commencing March The latter has direcied its officials to eject all express matter from its trains belonging to the Wells-Fargo company. If the latter succeed by legal process in forcing the Northern Pacific to cany their matter, retalitorv measures will be instituted by the Northern Pacific Express company, by establishing express routes on railroads now controlled exclusively by Wells. Fargo Co.

There is great excitement in railroad circles where the facts are known. A hard fight is expected. The raMroad a mutaallj Defective Page upon terms which are equitable and juiit Bnninam. 1 he gmaiiircws. Ames announces himself as an independent candidate for the Minneapolis mayorfdty on the broad-gauge system.

The Minneapolis Armory Fair closed with Between $5,000 apd $6,000 in the treasury In the legislature of Connecticut an adverse report Was made on the bill permitting sayings banks to invest in bonds, those of the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis and of the Illinois Central railroads and leased lipes. The chairman of the explained that -Minnesota repudiated her debt'some years ago, and Elg aid only 50 cents on Concernother bonds, the committee was not satisfied of the expediancy of allowing investment in-them. Matta Miles of Austin, route agent on the La Crosse and Sioux Fails run, will be transferred to the Chicago and Minneapolis run. W.

W. Street of La Crosse to Sioux Falls. As an east-bound passenger, wasnearing CokatO, about one and one-hal miles west of town, on the 20th, it struck and instantly killed an old man named Peter Peterson, who lived three miles west of Cokato. Peterson and another man, Andrew Peterson, were returning home from Cokato when they met the train. The unfortunate man's neighbors tried to get him off the track, but did not succeed.

He was partially blind and intoxicated. At the meeting of the board of rectors of the St. Paul Northern Pacific on Thursday an important contract between that company and the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie Atlantic was approved, and to-day executed by both President Hffris and President Washburn. This contract was agreed upon and proposed last fall, before Gen.

Washburn's departure for Washington but it had not been approved uutil this meeting, on account of the unsettled condition of things in the Northern Pacific board and the change of officials. The contract provides for the joint use of all the termninal facilities of the Northern Pacific in Minneapolis, including the new iron bridge. Capt. E. C.

Babb, of Minneap ol commander af the G. A. R. department of Minnesota, has received a communication from H.P. Lloyd, commander of the department of Ohio, appealing for aid in behalf of members who have suffered during the great flood.

Posts and members can forward contributions to Capt. Babb, for which receipts will be sent promptly to the proper destination. Adjt. Gen. McCarthy has issued three commissions from his office.

Sergeant William Dawson, of Company St. Paul, First regiment, was commissioned second lieutenant of that company. Second Lieut, O. J. Clyde, Little Falls company Second commissioned first lieutenant of the same company.

First Sergeant Close of the same place and company was commissioned second lieutenant, vice Clyde, promoted. Paid Gutherz, the St. Louis artist, who spent a portion of last summer in St. Paul and is well known in art circles here, has painted a large picture representing a Dakota farm scene. Mr.

Gutherz found the material for his sketches on a wheat farm of 15,000 acres near Fargo. The painting is to be sent to Paris to be exhibited in the Salon of 1884, and will be shipped immediately, as the Saloh opens iu a few weeks The picture has been photographed. H. H. Young, setcreeary of the state board of immigration, states that the prospects of a large immigration into Minnesota this year are much better than at the corresponding time last year.

Mr. Young recently received a letter from Amsterdam, the writer of which stated that there was every prospect for an unusually large immigration from Holland this On the night of the 15th of last October Charles A. Lipe, operator, and station agent of the Manitoba company at Pelican Bapids, was reported robbed of $615 in money, belonging to the American Express company and the railway company, No clue was found to the burglary, but last week one William S. Agnew of Aldrich, Wadena county, made some statements which led to the arrest of both himself and Lipe, and a hearing was given Lipe here to-day. Agnew turned state's evidence, and testified that Lipe came to him, made the statement that he was short in in his accounts, and that he should help him out by going through his house and feigning a robbery.

The doors were left open according to agreement, and Agnew went through the programme with masks, pistols and all the accoutrements. Lipe's clothes were carried off and laid beside the road some distance from the in a pocket which was intended for the would-be robber. Deupty Sheriff Ege of Hennepin county put in State Prison the following persons, commited and sentenced: James McConnelly, burglary 3 years. Robert Armstrong, larceny in a dwelling house. 2 years.

Louis Croix, larceny in a dwelling house 1 year and '6 months. James Burke, larceny from the person 2 years. Jacob Lininger, larceny in a shop 2 years, and Charles Schultz, larceny in a dwelling house, 1 year and 9 months. Thomas J. Walton of Minneapolis, who labors under the idea that parties desire to lynch him, was adjudged insane and committed to St, Peter.

Mrs. P. C. Mansen of St. Paul says her husband has lighted out with all his money $9,000.

Ernest Bandrmoe, who severely shot and attempted to kill his wife near Detroit, has been released from jail, secured a reconciliation with his wife, and the twain have departed for parts unknown. The district court sustains the appeal in the Walshburn will case. Ole Bogn was arraigned before Justice O. S. Beishus at Sacred Heart for the murder of his wife.

He pleaded not guilty. The Connecticut legislature refuses to permit savings banks to invest in Minnesota bonds. The Minnesota Horticultural society vrill offer premiums to hardy fruit raisers. A negro named Johnson, of 'Wright, was jailed in Paul, charged with murders in Indianapolis and Lexington. At Minneapolis Gambler Shaw pleaded guilty and paid $500 in finos.

Will he now shut up shop? In the -senate Monday the 24th inst. the nomination of E. G. Swanstrom as receiver of public moneys at Duluth, was confirmed Capt. Daniel Beed of Battle Creek, and his Woodbury, of Le Sueur county, met in Chicago last ween: for the first time in' fifty years.

The new Moorhead board of trade has perfected its organization and adopted articles of incorporation and by-laws, The following were elected the first board 0 terests as far as it is able. The officials Bay Mills, O. C. Buck, H. A.

Brans, James the company will not refuse the Wells Fargc H. Sharp, W. Allen, Daniel Titus, is the intention of the railroad company to pros, officers were elected: James H. Sharp, ecute the matter to the utmost limit, and it ii F. D.

Larabee. first vice generally expected that testimony will be ad- The Union block and two adjoining nesofta Land convention will be held at Ijoss, the sohool house in Heron Lake pn 'm directors, to. serve until the tZtT SI" following 0 Beck duoed showing some inside history of expresi preswent, v. u. JJecK, second vice concerns, and their manner of doing business president (Jeorge W.

ljampner, seethat will interesting to those in- rotary Samuel Partridge, treasurer, A meeting of the Southwestern Min- second vice THE casus IVALEKE mWGttit'k At Spokane Among Tfcedf Boot Car the Trails lata st X-iglm the District. Sfoxahk Falls, Special Correspond ence, Feb. waiting here Jtpr th weather to moderate before airing anothc start toward the mines, there is little to but to listen to the talk of those who are go. ing or have been to Eagle City. The fcote3 and saloons are daily and nightly thronge! with these travelers, and acquaintances ar.

easily made. This is a very moral town, witl no open gambling games, nor other evidence of vice, except such as may be found hi a bar, room with a back room for whist There foing none of the mining camp appearance abov it, which characterizes most of the startiB points to the mines from the railroad. The stores are full of goods to be sola and packo! into the mines, and the citizens are makin. preparations to secure as much of the incident to the excitement as may bu turned their way. They are watchful of opportunity, and liberal in expenditure.

Thii) morning a sled went up loaded with mea pad supplies for the building of bridged pn the new trail from Jackass Prairie tq 'Eagle City. The money for this work was easily raised among the business-men and they believe that theirs will be the first) way in for freight Whether or not travel will take this longest road before the waterways are open is a question for the experimenters to answer. The trail will be hurried along, and a road will follow as fast as possible, though time will be taken to hunt a still shorter way. The engineer who went over the trail, a Mr. Hall, told me this morning that he spent a day and a night in the camp at Eagle City.

He saw no mining going forward, but there was speculation inj town lots, and the houses were going upt with a great clatter and He raid was demand for men to haul logs and woric on the houses, but many of the though idle, prefer to take it easy and draw! on their "grub" rather than work at anything! but gold hunting. The logs are hauled byj man power, and the work of buildingi requires many hands. The houses now up are mostly of a the nouses there are, here and) there, stoves with stovepipes running upj through the roofs but this article of fuznH ture is very scarce. One man told Hall would give $250 for a good box stove. Two Were started from here yesterday by minersgoing- in.

They took them apart, and so hopej to get them safely in on their pack The old sawbuck pack-saddle is just nowj doing a railroad business in this It is so cold on the roads into the mines that there are many who have camped om the trail, and the number arriving at Eagle City each day will not exceed A month ago the arrivals were about fifty a day. The cold is BO severe that feet are frozen even when under blankets. Mr. Hall said the worst night he spent was In a wellchinked though abandoned cabin. His Btruck it late at night and they could find no1 wood for a fire, so they turned in.

One byi one they gave up the attempt to sleep, ana! went tramping for wood, which they at about 3 o'clock in the morning. Not one! of them got over an hour's sleep. On another occasion, camping outside, they built good fire in the woods, and slept sitting with! feet to the blaze and heads resting against' trees. He said he saw no one there wanted to come away, or expressed any re-! gret at having come. Such is it musi be mainly a matter of hope, sincei nothing is being done to assure themi that they will find what they came for.

The1 town lot business is good. There was agreement, I am told, among a number of first-comers to the effect that they should layi off a town, and each one who would, fence and otherwise improve a lot should have it: and the first bloodshed came of a quarrel! over one of these town lots. There was some disputing 9s to what constituted "improvements," and when one of these lots' "jumped" the jumper was shot. From1 these circumstances the story grew until ifo was told that a man had been shot dead for jumping a mining claim. The man is stilli niivp and his jump was a small house not if mining claim 1 LOCAL LAWS.

There are many wags of the head and predictions that there wiJl be shooting and cutting and much trouble of all kinds over the claims but I am told that the men who tooki twenty-acre claims, fearing this, are unloading a part, taking partners, or in some way dividing up, so as to escape the charge of being hoggish in the matter. In view of the amount of talk there has been about posaieible troubles in the spring, I have taken pains to secure a copy of the by-laws of the miners These were adopted early in the history of the camp, and have, it may be, been somewhat modified since. I am quite certain they have never been printed in a daily paper, and they will help your readers to understand the preparations ted precautions necessary for the government of a mining camp: Local laws of the Coeur d'Alene mining district, Iccr.tcd on Pritchard and creeks, Shoshone county, Idaho territory. BY-LAWS. Sec.

1. All locations on or veins of quartz to conform with the United States laws of May 10, 1872, as nearly as practicable, Fifteen hundred (1,500) in length, by six hundred feet in width. Sec. 'J. Placer mining claimants shall be al' lowed twenty acres, to be located so that the' length shall not exceed eighty rods.

Sec. 3. Each location shall be represented by the locator or his authorized agent in locating and recording. Sec. 4.

No person will be restricted to one claim, but may locate one claim in any stream' or gulch where vacant ground may be found.1 But no person snail le allowed to locate more than one claim on the same stream or gulch. Persons shall not )e prohibited from holding claims acquired by purchase. Sec. 5. Claimants shall have one year from the first of January succeeding the date of location work their first annual assessment, which shall be $100.

Each year thereafter claims shall be represented by $20 worth of labor each month' after the first of June untU the first of November after the first year's assessment. Furthermore, all claims shall be considered laid over from the first of November to the first of June. All necessary work, such as making roads or trails, building houses or any improvements in opening or working a claim will be allowed $5 per day as assessment labor. Sec. 6.

Claimants will be required to record their claims in the district record within fifteen days from the date of location. Sec. 7. The oldest or first claimants shall have the first privilege of water, but shall not prohibit others from using the surplus water. And all claimants shall be requested to return the water to the channel of the stream for the benefit of those below.

Sec. 8. Several miners may form a company for the purpose of opening and working mines in placcr claims, when such claims are contiguous and the labor performed by said company shall represent their claims, althongh the amount ot labor for the convenience of opening and working may be done on one claim. Sec. 9.

Difficulties arising between parties In the mining district shall be settled by arbitration. Each disputant to be allowed an equal number of arbitrators, and in case of a tie on decision, said arbitrators will have power to call an assistant. Sec. 10. All claims located, prior to the date of the adoption of these by-laws shall be respected just the same as those made after the Danbury Correspondence Boston Very mamy of the tiny screws used in this country in watchmaking are turned out on three little automatic machines jn this place.

One of them, while turning out a perfect screw at a fair rate of speed, is considerably improved on by its companions. The machine takes up but little room. A man could carry it under his arm without much difficulty. A wire is fed through a tube into the machine. It is carried forward by revolving teeth.

As it appears, a knife cuts away the surplus metal to make the stem for the thread, just as the chisel operates at the lathe of the wood-turner. As this is finished, a small tube, in which the thread is formed, advances and clasps the stem, forms the thread at lightning speed, and falls back. As this is done, two knives cut that portion of the wire off, and the completed screw falls down. The wire again advances and the process is repeated. The marvel of the machine is best grasped when the size of the screw formed is understood.

This week the largest size are being made. They are an eighth of an inch in length, and it would require 200 of them to weigh an ounce. The thread of the stem is so small that it is 'scarcely discernible to tho naked eye. Each machine will make 5,000 screws a day. The machines have been at work a little more than a month, and are the result of years of patient investigation.

4 said date. Sec. 12. On the written application of twelve or more miners, the chairman shall cause three notices to be posted up in three conspicuous places, giving ten days notice of a meeting. Said notices to specify the object and business to be transacted at such meeting.

To make any changes in the present bylaws between the first of November and the firist of June the following year shall be illegal. Section 13. These laws to take effect from this date, and any laws or regulations previously enacted that conflict with these laws shall be considered repealed. Most of those now in the mines are from Montana and the Black Hills men predominate. Those from the west coast are holding back for milder weather, trusting to their chances for successful prospecting in the gulches and lodes higher up the streams.

L. 8. H. Wonderful Automatons. Assistant General Passenger Agent Pavis of the Northern Pacific has received the following telegram from C.

S. Fee of that road: 'The excitement in Montana in regard to the CiBur I' d'Alene mine is intense, and is growing day. Rich quartz-bearing rock from this re-Hikggion, shown nere to-day, assays $50,000 to the ran. There is every prospect now that the mining, rich as it is, willgive way in importance, before the end- of the year, to Quarts mining, and that the future of the region in and Idaho traversed by the Northern Padfio railway is assured, and is. swpl.