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for. I#^i |:*VV 1&& .* S%:., •m $ v. J?* & Ufo* JMtoftitt*. •. P. MILLER, Pablisher. WOIiTHINGTON, MINNESOTA. The cold weather in March has trou bled some people a good deal, especially those who cannot remember from one year to another. We are not apt to have June weather in March, and nobody really expects it. Under the new postal act the limit of single money orders has raised from $50 to $150, the following scale of prices being adopted: not exceeding $l'», 8 cents $10 to $15,10 cents $15 to $30,15 cents $30 to $40, 20 cents $40 to $50, 25 cents $50 to ?60, 30 cents $60 to $70, 35 cents $70 fo $80, 50 cents $80 to $100 45 cents. The redaction on sums under $10 from present money-order rates is one-fifth. Sams not exceeding $5 will be but 3 cents, or a reduction of about two-thirds the present rates. Norway is having a fierce political struggle with the king and his ministers. The entire cabinet has been impeached and the result of the trial is expected to advance Norway ahead several degrees in political government. The two legisla tive bodies are overwhelmingly liberal, and the upper branch, composed ofthir ty liberals and ten judges of the supreme court, who are conservatives, will try tho impoaohmont. The trouble arises from an attempt of the legislature to amend tho constitution, which was ve toed by the king who claims an absolute veto in the premises. Cotton is still King in our export list, the figures for 1881 and 1882 being re spectively $247,695,746 and $199,812,644. In 1882 this was the order of ouraleading •exports: Cotton, $199,812,644 wheat, $112,929,718 illuminating oils, $44,588, 854 bacon, $42,124,602 wheat flour, $36, 375,055, lard, $28,975,902 Indian corn, $28,845,830 leaf tobacco, $19,067,721 cheese, $14,058,975. One can see from the above one of the chief factors of prosperity that now prevails at the south and one which incidently contributes in no small degree to the welfare of our common country. European travel will be more general this summer than ever before. State rooms in all the first-class steamships have already been taken np to the month of July. The question, What will a trip abroad cost? is beiug discussed with great eagerness. It depends, of course, upon where and how one goes. There ia not much difference in expense between travelling in America and in Europe. From $4 to $6 per day for each person will pea fair amount for all ne cessary expenses. Indeed, some people manage to '"do" Europe much cheaper, but the large majority of people throw their money away in high-priced hotels and first-class railway cars, when second class are almost as good, and in going over the same ground twice. California at the present time is most anxious for rain. Without it the crop: will be very short. The Bulletin says: The acreage in most of these counties sown to wheat is larger than before. There is less actual suffering from drought than had been supposed. If spring rains should be abundant, it is probable that the yield of wheat at the next harvest would not be much short of 50,000,000 bushels. But if dry weath er were to continue from this on the shrinkage of this aggregate would prob ably be 50 per cent. Twenty-five mil lion bushels of wheat lost by dry weath er would be only one item. The hay, barley and oat crops would be corre* spondingly short. The demand for the publication of the pension lists js about to be answered by the government by the issue of a work of 4500 pages, containing a complete list of the pensioners, their post office ad dress, the amount of pension in each case and the reason why it is granted. Such a volume cannot be placed in the hands of every body, but it will undoubt edly be placed within reach of all, and if the list contains fraud,the pension bu reau will be likely to hear of it. As mat ter of public information, the newspa pers will be likely to reprint such por tions of the list as pertain to their con stituencies, and a good deal of light will be thrown upon the system which is tak ing so manv millions annually from the national treasury. At the next meeting of the senate of the United States, important changes will be made in the committees, owing to the large number of senators. The senate committees are made up, as far rs practicable under a system. A new member assigned to a committee goes at the foot of the majority if he belongs to that side, and to the foot of the mi nority if he represents that side. His name is the last in the list of his side, and he advances by regular promotion. When a chairman of a committee leaves it from any cause, the next senator on the majority list advances to the chair manship, if hi* desires it. If that sena tor has the chairmanship of another committee which he prefers, he can re tain che latter, and the next one to him on the majority list assumes the vacant chairmanship. In this way each change advances every senator one step. The metnod is closely followed, and hence, by taking a committee list, it is enough to indicate many of the changes that will occur in a coming reorganization of the committees. The excitement and alarm at the east over the predicted great storm of "Pro fessor" Wiggins, did not extend to the west. There was a good deal of curiosi ty in this section as to whether the storm •would make its appearance at the time predicted, and that is all. But at the east, several persons of week minds and nerves, were made crazy by fear. The fishermen along the coast did not put to sea, and two ocean steamships sailed from New York with five passengers, and the other with none. The outward bound shipping waited in the lower bay and the damage to commercial interests in New York alone is estimated at a million dollars. The credulity andlarm among the people, and even the degree of curiosity among the more in telligent, are even more singular than the delusion of Wiggins—admitting that he was sincere in his predictions. He coins ation aid not speak with any authority or es- the heart at tablished reputation. He had not been known as a scientist an 1 was still dis credited by the failure of the February storm which he predicted would make its appearance. The Millerites have been discredited by the continued fail ure of the predictions concerning the w? s^ift S ,Jt *. *s *&" »$ THE NEWS IN BRIEF. EVENTS IN WASHINGTON. Senator Angus Cameron will remain here till April 1. Mrs. Cameron will remain till May 1, and perhaps until June 1, as her delicate health will not permit her to take any risk. Mr. Cameron said that he thought the coming congressional winter would be a Very quiet one. A leading topio will be the presidental succession. Senator Hoar's Mil he thought, would be pissed. Another leading question is David Davis' bill providing Tor the establishment of an intermediate court of appeal. The bill, he thought, could be passed by the democrat ic house, particularly as it was now well un derstood that the president would give half of the judges to the democrats. It is an open secret that the president and secretary of the treasury think the number of internal revenue districts should be re duced to correspond with the abolition of the taxes. It is thought that the number of districts will be reduced from 126 to 110. The bulk of the consolidation will come in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, with here and there the elimination of a single one. Nothing is definitely fixed as yet, as there is a good deal of cutting and drying necessary before the new lines ean be adjusted. An order has been issued by Acting Post master General Hatton directing officers of bureaus and divisions aad officers of the de partment to observe and enforce the law providing for the use of penalty envelopes by senators, representatives and delegates in congress. These penalty envelopes are used for forwarding or answering£offlcial corres pondence. The civil service commission expect in a day or two to receive from the heads of the departments a classification of the clerical force of each department. After the receipt of this information the commission will fully oiganize by the selection of a chief examiner, and the adoption of rules for the government of the commission. The president has appointed George R. Sage United States judge for the southern district of Ohio, vice William White, de ceased also D. B. Russel, United States mar shal, Eastern district of Arkansas, in place of James T. Brown, against whom charges of forgery and perjury are pending. Judge Thoman has been appointed the disbursing agent to the civil service com mission. Treasury officials say that a bond for one year will probably give the govern ment sufficient security, as they expect the supplies to be cut off by the democratic con gress next winter. The act to readjust salaries of certain post masters makes no provision for carrying ont its requirements. It is said that the law cannot be executed without an appropria tion and an additional force of clerks. The readjustment of salaries will require at least $2,000,000. A. B. Mullet, formerly supervising arch itect of the treasury, has filed a petition in the court of claims for the adjudication of bis claim against the United States for $23, 000 on account of salary alleged to be due to him. The government bonds in which the Jap anese indemnity fund has been invested have been sold to the treasury department, and the $785,000 will be paid the Japanese minister. Samuel McKee of Louisville, Ky., and Gilbert Mayers, Memphis, Tenn., have been disbarred from practice in the department of the inter ior. The president has designated Paul Stra bach to act as United States marshal for the southern district of Alabama, vice Osborne, suspended. Secretary Folger is quite ill, but is expect ed to recover. RAILROAD RUMBLINGS, Articles of incorporation of the Minneso ta Transfer Railway company have been filled with the secretary of state. The bus iness of the company is to be conducted in both Ransey and Hennepin counties, with tbe principal office at St. Paul. The amount of capital stock is stated at $300,000, divi ded into 3,000 shares of $100 each. The highest amount of indebtedness to which the corporation sball be subject is limited to $100,000, exclusive of indebtedness secur ed by mortgage. The tollowing are the incorporators, who are also nsmed as direc tors Sherburn 8. Merrill of Milwaukee, William H. Truesdale of Minneapolis, and James 8. Hill, Edwin W. Winter, and Her man Haupt of St. Paul. Ex-Senator Windom was elected Friday and without any deadlock agonies, either. His office is president of the Texas, Topola bamko «fc Pacific railway. Ben Butler, U. S. Grant, Jr., Senator Brown and C. M. Los ing of Minneapolis are associated in the en terprise. RECORD OF CASUALTIES. Thomas Waine, who registered at the City hotel, St. Louis, March 10, as from Milwau kee, was found in a sick, helpless condition in the water closet of the Southern hotel, that city, yesterday. He was taken to the City hospital, and died last night. It is supposed he had taken morphine, From papers on his person it was learned that he had several United States bonds in the Safe Deposit company's vault, and nearly $100 was found in his pockets. THE CRIMINAL RECORD. The Bismarck Tribune of Sunday last is responsible for the statement that GeoigeH. Stokes and B. F. Barney, two tiavelini men of St. Paul, were unceremoniously bounced from the Sheridan house in Bismarck last Friday. The Tribune further states: It is said of those gentlemen that they so insulted the dining room girls that two of them threatened to quit work rather than submit to it, and that tbe new clerk, Sbaw, was al so insulted by the same parties. Thomas G. Greenleaf, a farmer at New Durham, N. Y., became possessed of the idea that he was afflicted with a tape worm. Fri day he went to a woman named Mclnimy, who professes to cure all kinds of ailments. She gave bim five pills and a capsule, which she required him to swallow in her presence. At supper time that evening he was seized with convulsions and continued to grow worse until Sunday noon, when be died. Herbert Eaton, sitting in a livery-stable at Calais, Me.,' engaged in ordinary conver sation Wednesday, suddenly drew a pistol and shot his brother Joseph and Samuel Kelly, Jr. Joseph was not dangerously in jured. Kelly's recovery isdoubtiul. Eaton fled to his summer residence, seven miles away, and threatens to resist arrest. In the case of Edward Reckert, a newspa per reporter who went to St. Louis from Chicago, got a position on the Globe-Demo crat, and soon after shot*nd killed 8elina Wilson, a married woman, with whom he had held very close relations, the jury failed to agree. l. C. Sauches, member of an eld 8panish family in California, and a musician, en tered tbe National Concert hall, San Fran cireo, where his mistress, Clara A. Kenick's was waiter girl, shot her fatally and killed himself. Jealousy. John G. Wilson, in his delirium tremens, paraded the streets of Cincinnati clad only in drawers and undershirt and barefoot, danced for an hour or so on top of a Wh house, and was taken by the police after great difficulty. The defict of Ray, late bookkeeper of the Merchant's and Planter's bank Montgom ery, Ala., who suicided, is placed at $ 00. 000. The bank meets all the loss. Burglars blew open the safe of W. F. Ma son of Willow Hill, 111., and secured $1,600, most of which was country taxes. They mhsed a package of $600. Benjamin Bates, grand nephew to Lin coin's attorney general, shothimt iebmond Monday. r-—r»»»» wuvwuiug we candlesticks, vases and flowers to the ground destruction of the world, and tbe weath- dean and several others secured the er prophets will, doubtless, experience °ian *"CT. »"Juggle, and gave him into fthaaame fate ttnt th« the custody of the police. In the exdte !, the stock of human ment many persons left the church, horri credulity is inexhaustible and, we nay g®d at the sight. bequite as sure that there will be some Letters from Baseman and Mil—City give pther ftwmof prevalent delusion to meet the Judgment of th« dnalew fhodeu^ai^for sensation and m^st^ry UftbeYellowHone valley as to losses last GENERAL NEWS NOTES. During service at 8t. Paul's cathedral, London, on Saturday, a well-dressed man ran up the altar steps with his hat on, leaped upon the altar and dashed the cross, iVi- -3* winter. It is that,generally, the percentage of losses is small, less than 5 per cent. The conditions this spring are peculiarly favor able to stock which oomes out in fair con dition, and will soon feed fat on the early sprouting grass. Charles BeCkman of Baltimore was en gaged to the daughter of his employer, Jacob Heinan, a dry good merchant, and absconded on the eve of the wedding because his prospective father-in-law would give him only $5,000 instead of $100,000, as he wished. The girl a belle in German society is ill in consequence. The Baltimore conference of the Metbo dist Episcopal church (south) reports the possession of 383 churches, with a value of $763,000 parsonages, 82, with a value of $127,000 indebtedness, $8,000, amount raised for builoing and improvement, $37,000 in debtedness, $22,000. Miss E. H. Ober, manager of the Boston Ideal Opera company, which began a sea son at Boston recently, has been warned by D. Oyly Carte that it she performs any of Gilbert & Sullivan's without paying 5 ceipts, be will en, works'" as advertised, cent, of the gross re- The latest prayer cure was effected at Hudson, Mo., where Annie Teevey, nine teen years of age, helpless from paralysis, has recovered, it is alleged, through the reading of prayers by Father Rear don. A lot on the corner of Fourth and Mar ket streets, Ssn Francisco, belonging to the Lick trust, was sold Monday to James C. Flood for $450,000.. Tne procend* will go toward building fr» public batbs. Winter wheat promises well in the south west. Illinois expects a loss of 25 per cent, from the Hessian fly. Ktnns figures pre dict a yield of from 30,000,000 to 40,000,000 bushels. Minneapolis lumbermen estimate from returns received from a few streams, that the log out on the Upper Mississippi valley this winter will be about the same as that of 1882. William Collins, a Brooklyn bootblack, has got a verdict of $5,000 for being put out of a ferry-boat cabin on the supposition that he was stealing a ride. The Apollo commandery of Knights Templar, Chicago, think of going to Europe in addition to going to the triennial conclave at San Francisco. Gov. Bate afTennesseee has signed tbe bill to pay the state debt at 50 cents on the dollar, and 3 per cent, interest. The last seat sold in the New York stock exchange brought $28,000. Eugene Dewey was the buyer. TTp to last 8aturdav tbe Duluth company had logs to the amount of15,500,000 feet in the water, BRIEF FOREIGN NEWS. Smalley's London Cable: Mr. Parnell's visit to Paris had various objects. He took great pains to secure publicity in numerous French papers for complaints against the land ict, omitting no means to provoke French hostility to England. The result of his repeated interviews with Mr. Henri Rochefordis apparent in the Intransigi lant's open advocacy of war with Great Britain. He condemned the Phoenix park murders, declared that Carey was a govern ment agent who had controlled these mur ders and led astray the poor fellows who committed them, and that he had received $30,000 reward. He attributed the London explosion to freethinkers. When parlia ment resumes its sessions Parnell will be asked either to confirm or deny these state ments. The Chronicle of Maryborough,' Queens land, has an account of the arrival there of Bernard Gilfoy of Buffalo. N. Y., who left San Francisco, AUK. 19, 1882, in an eighteen foot dory for Australia. The voyage was prosperous until tbe latter part, when be capsized twice, lost his instruments and had his provisions damaged. He was picked up Jan. 29 by a coaster, 100 miles from theeoast of Queensland, in an exhausted condition. In the commons, Sir William Harcourt, home secretary, in replying to a question by Capt. O'Sbea, said the police were carefully inquiring into tbe assault'on Lady Florence Dixie. The inquiry was owing to tbe inten tion of the Parnellito me.ubers to press lor an investigation because of the suspicions cast upon the land league in connection with tne case. All the Vienna socialists have been ac quitted ef the charge of high treason Pfleeer and Engel, joiners, Convicted of the robbery of Merstallinger, shoe manufactur er, were sentenced to fifteen years penal ser vitude, and Berndt, master joiner, partici pating in the robbery, was sentenced to two years penal servitude. In the case of Nugent and twelve other members of tbe Armah Assassination soci ety, the crown to tinsel has undertaken to prove the society was established by a jnan named Burns coming from America for the S'ugent urpose, and that after Burns' departure became director of the society. At a meeting of the British cabinet Mon day, Lord Carlingford took his seat as lord president of the council, in place of Lord Spencer, resigned, Carlingford will also as- Eume the duties of Minister of sgriculture which are combined with those or lord pres ident. London Dispatch: The greatest secrecy is maintained regarding the inquiry into the Westminister explosion. Unless evidence fastening guilt upon Irish extremists -hall be brought forth, the authorities will pro bably allow the whole affair to die out quiet- The French Revision Constitution league has published its programme. It attacks the present constitution as framed in the inter est of oligarchy, and declares that reform or a durable government is impossible with two legisladve houses. Judge Lawson, replying to an address presented by the grand jury of Belfast, said he attributed the explosions in London and the attack on Lady Florence Dixie to the final efforts of the scotched reptile, lawless ness. The governor of Moscow has received a letter, warning him thatfthe Kremlin, where the czar Is to be crowned, will be blown up during the coronation ceremony if the czar refuses to grant a constitution. The report that the dean of Canterbury had received a letter threatening that the deanery would be blown upon the occasion of the enthronement of the new archbishop is pronounced untrue. A considerable number of people fiom North and South Carolina are arriving in Winnipeg, to settle on Hums in the north west. Forty families are coming in two weeks. Tbe estimated expenditure cf the Domin ion for the finsncial year ending June 30. 1881, is $45,504,145 amount voted for tbe present year ending June 30, next, $54,877, 264. Lieut. Hunt has pasesd through St.'Peters burg from Irkutsk, where he left the bodies of Commander De Long and comrades for transportation to America in the spring. Right Hon. Vnthony J. Mundell, a mem ber of the British parliament for Sheffield, and vice-president of the council, is seri ously indisposed. R. Carrie A Co., wholesale drygoods at Toronto, Ont., have suspended. Liabili ties $80,000. An autopsy of Gortschakoff showed .he had not oeen poisoned. The health of Emperor William contin ues to improve. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Charles 8oehner, 8r., a music dealer ®nd prominent citizen of Indianapolis, Ind., died Tuesday morning. Mr. Soeh ner was born in the Grand Duchy of Ba den in 1818. He became prominently identified in the revolution of 1840, aad under the revolutionary government, held the office of civil commissioner of his duchy, beinpr the hiehest office in the duchy. On the overthrow of the govern property was confiscated, and with Carl Schorr, Gen. Hecker and other prominent revolutionists, he came to America and settled at Indianapolis in lofvi Bertram SchefiRer, a well-known resident of St. Paul led Thursday evening at the residence of his cousin, Alfred Scheffer, which Day ton's bluff Death resulted from typhoid —ioni» aggravated by severe asthma Mr. Scheffer had suffered for the last twenty years. The deceased waa fifty-one yean of age, and a native of Rhein berg Prussia, where hisftther fer forty years or iqoie, was burgomaster W* TVv^ fieforoanarmy retiring boani, of which Gen. W. 8. Hancock ia piesldant tea lowing offioers, well known in the depart ment of Dakota, have been ordered to ap pear for examination: CJI. George B. BnalL First infantry: Col. Thomas H. NdlL Eighth cavalry Col. James Von Voast Ninth in antry, and M^j. oseph Bush, Twenty-fifth nfantry. John Howard Payne's body arrvied Satur day morning, and was placed in the chapel at Oak Hill cemetery, where it will remain several days before being removed to the vault. It will probably be interred in the lawn facing the entrance, where a monu ment would be very conspicuous. W. Pitt Wsshburas, son of Elihu Wash bnrne, told his friends at Galena the other day that his father had entirely- recovered from his injuries in fslling from ahorse and was in better than usual health. Jacob Bchaefer, the billiardist, who wss recently divorced from his first wife, has married Miss Leve ef Newark, N. J. Jacob is two sizes larger than Tom Thumb, while his bride weighs 250. The will of the late John Holmes, of Pittsburg, Pa., divides his property, es timated at $450,000, into twenty parts, six of which are bequeathed to benevolent in stitutions of that city. It is an open secret that Dr. McCosh will retire from the presidency of Princeton col lege in June. There is talk of his having charge of a school of philosophy connected with the college. 1 Ex-Senator Sharon has paid over tc the widow of inker Ralston $120,000, which he had borrowed. Ralston's family are in destitute circumstances. Joseph Cook is te lecture in St. Paul. April 28. The Minnesota Statesman Inter viewed. Morning News' Washington Special: Sen ator McMillan thinks the year will be com paratively quiet and unministering so far as politics is concerned. An election for the state officers will be held in Minnesota this year, but there are no district issuea pending to make the time exciting. The election Will be confined to a mere choice of men. It is early yet to say what questions will be brought forwsrd for legislation next inter. The republican party has tsken the responsibility of settling the tariff question, and for that it is entitled to great credit. The democrats in one sense are gainers by this—they are spared tbe re sponsibility of passing upon tbe question, and are saved from having great divisions in their ranks made apparent by a forced dis cussion of the subject. Mr. McMillin thought that one of the great questions to be consideied by the next congress wou be the establishment of a department of commerce. He says: Tue department of the interior has become thoroughly unwieldly. It contains too many sub-divisions for the consideration of any one man, and that most of the other departments have become so well classified, so far as as their work is concerned, that they are easily controlled through perfect aystems. These systems are also simplified by tbe long lines of precedents for the regu lation of their actions. The interior de partment was made up of what there was left of otber departments It is constantly growing, and to-day it comprehends more great interests, and more troublesome ques tions than any other department of the gov erment. Mr. McMillan thinks that if apart of t^e department could be put into the depart ment of commerce,a better pnblic service would be secured without any extra expense. The question of regulating inter safe com merce, if taken by congrese, could be prop erly eatrusted to the department of com merce. Mr. McMillan thinks there are only two candidates for the speakership, Carlisle, and Randall. Tbe canvass will be made upou the lestion of tariff revision. Randall will be for ietting the subject rest, while Carliale iepresents the sgitators. Which every side wins, the results can be nothing, but agitation, for the senate is re publican, and the republican policy will be against any reopening of this vexed ques tion. Northwestern Inventions. The following patents haVe just been is sued: T. F. Ajrres, Yuba, Wis., churn E. E. Bunker, Dubuque, I-jwa, fire box lining N Butterfield, Monroe, Wis., roof M. Callan, Jr., Lyttle City, Iowa, check rower for corn planters C. C. Comstosk, Racine, Wis., platform spring connection L. Conner, Fox Lake, Wis., corn hoe H. V. Ducat, Portage, is., leg and foot protector E. C. Gillett, Western Union, Wis., sulky harrow L. M. Hoskins, Madison, Wis. windmill F. Kahn, Gladbrook, Iowa, seedei J. L. Langblin, Racine, Wis., adjustable barrow, also ciilti vator A. Lobell, Racine, Wis., harness thill strap F. D. McDowell, Clinton, Iowa, car riage seat E. S. Plimpton, Denison, Iowa, mechanism for converting motion F. Poll miller, Eddyville, Iowa, washing machine J. C. Schneider, Hudson, Wis., threshing machine J. Thomas, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, buckle. Changes in Revenue Receipts. The internsl revenue receipts the Isst fiscal year were $146,400,000. The receipts from July 1,1882, to March 21,1883, exceeded the receipts for the corresponding period last year by $72,200,000. Estimated receipts for cur rent fiscal year, if there be no reduction in taxation, will amount to $148,625,0* 0. De duct on account of changas ia revenue laws, $5,000,000, the total estimated receipts of the current fiscal year are $143,625,000. The estimated increases or decreases of revenue for the remainder of the current fiscal year compared with last year, are as follows: Increase on spirits $1,500,000 Decrease from banks and bankers. 2,400,000 Decrease from special taxes Decrease from adhesive stamps. Decrease from tobacco Total decrease Total decrease Net estimated decrease 1,600,000 500,000 2,000,000 1,500,0110 6,500,000 5,000,000 Fatal Railroad Accident. B. P. Squires, general merchant of Afton, Washington county, Minn., was killed by the southward bound passenger train on the Hastings road Tuesday evening, a mile and a halt north of the Afton depot. He had been to 8tlllwater on business, snd took the freight train for home about 6 o'clock in the evening, eing under the influence of liquor. When the train arrived at Afton he got off and walked along the track, until ne was struck by a passenger train. The beam of the engine struck him in the side, throwing bim upon the cow catcher, which tossed him upon the track, where he struck upon his head, breaking his neck. The engineer gave all necessary warning, and no inqnest was held. Squires wss forty-seven yean old and leaves a wife and six children. Freshets In Nova Scotia. A Halifax dispatch says that reports con tinue to arrive from all sections of damage to property from freshets. While the losses have not been enormous, the aggregate of damage will be most serious. In nearly every county the bridges are swept away. Latest r» ports from throughout the country give statements of widespread inundation and dissster. The Halifax & Gape Breton railway is seriously washed near Antigon ish. The bridges at West River and other parts of Picton county are gone. Sher broeke is flooded. Families moved to the upper stories of their el lings. All mining has ceased and all small bridges have been carried away. Export or Breadstnfft. The reports of the exports of domestic breadstufls for the eight months ending with February shows an aggregate increase over tbe corresponding eight months of Isst yesrofover $14,000,000. In Indian com there was a decrease of over 22.000,000 bushels, and over $13,500000 in value. In crease inausntity ot wheat was over 16,000, 000 bushels and in value over $13,000,000. In wheat flour the increase was 2,500,000 bands, and in value over $14,500,000. Fifty Dollars a Day Washington Spedsl: The gross amount paid on account of the tariff commission from the date of their appointment to the time the report was msde to oongressis$60, 000. Of this snm there was paid Jan. 9, $500 Feb. 13, $2,050. Thepayments were on the order of John L. Hayes, president and disbursing officer of the commission. The amount thus paid is about $50 a day for each member of the commission. The sal ary allowed by the law is $10 a day. What the remaining $40 a day foe each man was expended fat is jot known, as a knowledge oftee^ucbs»sisbarrfd^tbetw«RirJrS partment. Theiaw fixes no limit to the psnscs of the commission beyond the per dieih for each commissioner. $10 «.!- An Unexpected Advocate. Daviess county, in Kentucky, wss named after a brilliant, eccentric law yer, who fell at the battle of Tippecanoe. His popularity in the state waa un bounded. He wa8 genial, kind-hearted, an able lawyer, a powerful orator, and one of thel best of hunters. Such was his passion for hunting that, instead of "riding the circuit," as the other lawyers did, he would shoulder his rifle and range the woods between the places where court was held. Often he would appear in court dressed in the hunter's costume—dear-skin leggins, linsey hunting-shirt and coon-skin cap. One day, while thus roaming the woods in a part of the state where he wis not personally known, he came across a log school-nouse. A trial was going on. A poor young laborer, while wandering tnrougn that section, had been arrested oh the charge of horse stealing—a charge at that time about equivalent to a death warrant. The room waa filled with a rough-look ing crowd, whose expressions indicated that they would willingly aid in hanging the prisoner. The magistrate read the Warrant of arrest, and the prosecuting attorney began the production of his evidence. It Beemed doom the prisoner, who looked pitifully around, as if to find one friendly face among that hostile crowd. Something attracted him to the tall, stal wart backwoodsman, who, in hunting costume, stood leaning on bis rifle at the back part of the room. His face seemed to beam kindly upon the poor prisoner. Evidently he was a stranger, for no one spoke to him. The last witness was a big, double-fisted, loud-voiced bully. His testimony was so minute and circumstantial that it seemed to leave not a chance for the prisoner. "Have you," said his honor, address ing the prisoner, as a matter of form, "ifny witnesses, or do you wish to ask any questions?" he poor fellow had not a single wit ness, but he did ask the bully two or three questions. But tbe loud and hu morous replies so confounded him that he sank back, prepared to submit to his fate. "I would like to ask the witness two or three questions," said tbe tall back woodsman, laying aside his rifle and placing himself directly in front of the bully. Ina sharp, peremptory. tone, which upset the witness' confidence, he asked a few questions that showed him up as a liar. The prosecuting attorney, seeing his case melt away, hastened to protect his principal witness. Ttie bully strove to cover nis confusion by blustering threats of what he would do to any one who in sulted him. At last the magistrate, who had framed an impressive speech with which to sentence the prisoner, asked, with considerable asperity of tone, "I say, •stranger, what raougnt your name be?" "Joseph Hamilton Daviess," answer ed the backwoodsman, giving a name known to every man and woman in Kentucky. The judge became obsequi ous, and the big witness looked dis mayed. ous, and the big witness looked A few more questions, a brief, ringim argument, and the prisoner went out of the log cabin without the suspicion of being a hoise thief. He was an honest laborer, who, while making his way on foot to his relatives in a distant country, had been arrested on the false charge. As Davieps would not accept a penny lor his services, the young man insisted on carrying his protector's «un accoutre ments, as they walked together to the next town. "I was never better paid in my life than by the gratitude of that young fel low," said Daviess, in narraling the story. COMMERCIAL. CHICAGO MAKKKTS.—Flonr, dull and nominal. Wheat ..demand active: aoeetUed,Irregular, $1.04 @1.04^9 March $1.04*2(31.0456 April $1.09s @1091% May 8Sl.09ife@1.093i June Sl.oS^® 1.08% Julv: No. 2 Chicago ipriBgJ1.04ii@1.0i^ No. 3 Chicago soring, 91c Ma 2 red winter. $1.06%. Corn, demand active, unsettled, irregu lar: 54*2®56*80 cash: 54*2®5456c March 549ttc April 58X«959c May 58%c June COKc July rejected, 45®4714C. Oats, opened active but closed dull lower 40c cash 39^c March 39$fc April 42%c June: 41Xc July. Bye. quiet and lower, at (H)c. Barley, dull and unchanged at 75c. Flax seed fairly active, shade higher, at $1.35@l-35^. Dressed hogs, dull and nominal at $8.20(38.30. Pork, quiet: closed low er $18.10^18.15 cash and March $18.'22W April: $18.371«®18.40 May *18.57^ 18.60 June $18.70@18.75 July. Lard, opened higher closed lower $11.15011.17H2 cash and March $11.20$m.22»3 April $11.11.40 May $11.45C®lll47ifl June $11.52ia(g11.55 July. Bulk meats in fair demand shoulder*. $7.65: short ribs. $10.10: do clear $10.40. Butter, wnab creamery, 18@30c dairy, 14(325c. Whisky, steady ana unchanged $1.17. Freights.corntoBuf falo.nominally 3c. Call—Wheat, irregular $1.04^ I.04% March $1.04% April $1.09% May $1.0978 June $1.08% July. Corn, irregular 54%c March 5434@54%c All. April BABLET 587&@59u May 5878C June 60}&c July. Oats, irrtteular 39c April: 42%c May 42Hie June. Pork, weaKer $18.02ia March: $18.12a@18.20 April $l«.37»s May: $18 55®18.57H|June $18.7oretl8.80July. Lard, firmer: $11.10^11.20 March .$11.22^ II.25 April: $11.40 May $11.47^ Jane: $11755 811.57*3 July. Receipts—Flour, 17,000 bblsj wheat. 23,000bu: corn, 164.000 bu oats, 101, 000 bu rye, 9.R00 ba: barley, 33.000 bu. Ship ments—Flour, 430bbls: yheat, 9,000 bu corn, 85,000 bu oats, 101,000 bu rye. 4,200 bu bar ley, 36,000 bo. MILWAUKEE MARKETS.—Flour, In moderate supply. Wheat, steady Na 2 hard, $1.13 No. 2, $1.05a: March, nominal April, $1.04U: May. $1.09$fi June, $1.10& No. 3, 86c: No. 4, 75c rejected, 62c. Corn, weak and neglected No. 2, 56c so sales. Oats, firmer No. 2, 40'oc white, 432@45C Rye.entirely nominal: 58c bid"for No". 1 55c for No. 2. Barley, very quiet and a shade lower: extra No. 3. 51 x4c. Provisions firm. Mess pork, $18.30 cash and March $18.55 May. Lard, prime steam, $11.25 cash and March $11.50 May. Butter, dull fancy creameries, 26@30c. Cheese, a caret! and firm. Eggs, firmer. Receipts—Flour, 8.267 bbls wheat, 24.975 ba barley, 8,795 bu. Shipments—Flour, 12,890 bbls wheat, 1,000 ba barley, 8,800 bu. ST. PAUL. FLOUR—Quotations: Pa'ents, Orange Blossom, $7: Red Cross straights, $6.25: "Capitol" family, $5.75 XXXX. $4.50®5.50: in bbls'25c extra outside brands, 25®50c per bbl less, according to quality. Buckwheat flour, $6®6.50 per bbl. Rye flour, $4.50 per bbl. Graham, $5 per bbl. WHEAT—Tho market was firmly held, and move ments were light What is on hand ia mnstiy con trolled by operators holding for better prices. The millers are standing off for lower values, and thus there is but little doing. In the morning Chicago advauned, but later eased off. Receipts here are light. The market closed quiet No. 1 hard, $1.10 bid April, $1.11 bid: May. $1.15 bid Na 1, $1.05 No. 2 hard, $1.05 No. 2, $1 all bids. COBM—The market was quiet, Quotations were stronger in askiug, owing to light stocks, though the demand was light. No. 2, 52c: April, 53c May, 56c new mixed. 49c, all asking. OATS—Spot trading was light, but in May de livery, No. 2 mixed, there was good speculative ac tivity. Quotations unchanged. Year deliveries were called yesterday for the first time this season. No. 2 mixed. 38*90 bid, 39*sc a»kod April, 39c bid May,41cbid, 43c asked year, 32s bid, 34c asked No. 3 mixed, 37c bid No. 2 white. 40c bid, 40^c asked. Hales: 1 car No. 2 white, 40H!c 20,000 bu No. 2 mixed, p. t. —Market overstocked and prices weak nnder slow demand, though remaining unchanged in quotations. Na 2, 68c extra No. 3,55c No. 3,45c. RTB—No. 2,53c bid. MHX8TUFFS-Ground feed steady at $19 asked. Coarse corn meal, $18 buying. $19 asked bolted do, $25@26 per ton, incoming outgoing, $1.50@1.65 per 100 lbs, aacked. Bran, sacked, $13 aaked. Linseed meal, car lots, $20 per ton jobbing. $21. Sates: 2 cars ground feed, 19. SEEDS—1Timothy, $1.50bid. Clover, $7.20 bid. Flax seed ateady general range, $i. 15(31.18 for Na 1, on the basis of pure, with bulk of transac tions at the former. Sale: 1 car, choice, at $1.1 a BALED HAT—Market quiet, on light demand. Wild, $7asked timothy, $10@10.50. Receipts of wild fairly liberal timothy scarce. KTNNEAPOLJS. FLOUB—This staple shows bat little daily altera' tioa in prices, bat there is a growing feeling of more flrmess. A large number of mills are now idle, and the quantity of flour in the various mar ketv is very perceptibly diminishing, causing a bet ter outlook for the future. Local quotations: Patents, $6.50@7 per bbl straights, $5 5036.50 clears, $5.2505.70 p-r bbL Low grades are In fair request at $2@3.25 per bbl. MtLLSTum—While this product in various de scriptions was hardly so strong as last week, tbe actual selling price was bat little altered. Bran sold at $U$11.25 In bnlk, $12.50312.75 in sacks. Shorts rather weak and offered at $11.753 12 per ton. Coarse corn meal $18@19 oer ton in ear lota on track: $18.50^19.50 f. o. b. Mixed feed waa in moderate request at 50c@$l per ton above coarse corn meal. WHEAT—There waa a demand for Na 1 hard wheat at 91.11, and the market closed wi»h sellers at$l.UH. May was offered at $1.16, $1.15 bid: No. 2 hard waa quoted at 91.07H: Na 1 Northern was offered at if 1.07H: 81.02 waa bid for Na 2 Northern sample tots, without naming grade, sold at 68c@$1.01, Tbe tone of prices at tbe close was weak and the trading alow. COBK—51c waa bid for Na 2 spot 53se was bid for May, with sellers at *4 trading light. OATS—Were not offered freely. Prices were the asme nominally as on Saturday: 39i«cfor Na 2 411s@42c for choice white, and 38e for rejected by Br ide, and 35@39c by sample. RTB—53c bid for Na 2. BABUET—Nominal 4V bid for Na 3. «AT—Quiet at »7 f»Q(3«. 25 for wild. Jessie Issard of New Yon got $1,200 for JMTjaw brokep by her dentist, J-'-I'T.® MY HEART'S WITH THEE. Within tbe temple of my heart A shrine I've made for fhee^ Where, love of mine, thy faoe divine,. jj Still shineth ont on me, My song's sweet theme my soul'a bright dream! Ob, more than words to me Where'er I go, in weal or we* My heart is still with thee, My love! My heart is still with thee! captive heart! the chain of flowen That binds thee to thy fate Thou may'at not break, for thou would'st make The effort #11 too late. And, darling, e'en if thoa could'st bid This foolish heart go free, 'Twere all in vain—'twould kiss the chain, That binds it still to thee, My lovel That binds it still to thee. My dreams of honor, fortune^ fame Alas! Now where are they? Thine eyes of light, with glances bright, Have chaseJ them all awayl For what is honor, fortune, tame, Nay, what is life to tue? I only live, that I may give My life at last to thee, My love! My life at last to thee. MYBTIE'SLOYEB. Mrs. Mnrray was very much annoyed Donald Emerson had gone away. He was her only boarder, and for five years had occupied her best front chamber. She had taken him after much per sausion, for he fancied the location, the quietness, the beautiful scenery. Just the spot for a literary man, and Donald Emerson had settled down to his books and writing with no thought of change ever coming to bis quiet, lonely life. He was twenty-seven, though he looked older for a sad expression rested habitually upon his face. He was a Scotchman by birtli, though his life from childhood had been spent in America, and there was scarcely a vestige of ac cent in his speech. He had no living relatives, and meet ing Mrs. Murray, nn elderly lady, a for mer friend of his mother, and also of Scotch descent, had become an inmate of her house. Mrs. Murray had lived alone, save her servauts, for many years. They were two in number, a man and his wife who had .been with her since her husband's death. They were true and faithful to her in terests, and devotedly attached to their kind mistress. For the last three years her niece, Myrtie De Fore«t, had spent the sum mere at her house. Myrtle's own home was in a large city, and her Aunt Fan nie's rambling, old country house was a delightful retreat to the young school girl during her vacations. A place where she could romp and ramble through forests and meadows, and throw off completely the restraints of city life. Something of a hoyden was Myrtie De Forest at fourteen and among her outdoor amusements were number ed riding horseback and rowing. Her Aunt Fannie had given her per mission to ride, for she felt sure of her safety on steady, old Bess, but the row ing, when she first knew of it, gave her great uneasiness. Myrtie had done her rowing on the sly, and as there was a little grove be tween Mrs. Murray's house and the nond, she had become quite dexterous with her oars before her aunt knew of her risky ventures but one sultry afternoon Mrs. Murray walked down to the pond, hoping to find a cool retreat under the old maples, and seating herself in a rus tic chair leaned back contentedly to en joy the cool breeze that came off the water. Suddenly she descried her little boat, that she thought safely moored in its ac customed place, way out on the pond, while Myrtie seated in it her large sun hat protecting her lace, was rowing slow ly toward her. Mrs. Murray was frighten ad, but dared not call to the young adventuress lest soine accidunt should befall Her, while Myrtie thinking herself out of Bight and hearing, was caroling like a joyous bird as she paddled round amone the lilies, gathering a great cluster of the fragrant (lowers as she neared the shore. Reaching the little pier built out for fastening the boat, tbe secured it with lock and key, then came sauntering up the path, with her head bent low over the^ pure, golden-hearied lily cups, and had nearly reached the rustic seat before she saw her aunt, whose face was pallid with fear and nervousness. "Whv, AuntFanny," the girl exclaim ed, "I did not know* that you was here. Are you ill?" she asked, tenderly, as she noted her aunt's pale face, and when Mrs. Murray chided her from venturing alone on the water, Myrtie threw her arms about her aunt's neck caressingly. "Why, you dear, old auntie," she said, ''I've been doing it all summer. How did you think I got the beautiful lilies we nave all the time iu the vases?" ''I supposed John got them for ydu," Aunt Fannie replied. "I did not want to hinder John, fot what I could do myself," Myrtie said, quite proud of her achievement and in time, finding the girl was really cautious, Mrs. Murray forgot her nervous fears. Myrtie De Forest did not know that, had she been in peril, she would surely have been rescued. One window of Donald Emerson's chamber commanded a view of the little pond, and aiter seeing her one morning, •n the tiny at, way out from the shore, lie hail got into the habit of looking from his window toward the water, that would have annoyed Myrtia exceedingly, had B.he known that the keen eye ~ol Aunt Faunie's boarder was upon her. He seemed a grave, courteous, digni fied man, whom she met rarely, save at her Aunt's table, and she scarcely gave him a thought, school girl as she was, into tbe quiet, old country house, and nto Donald Emerson's lonely life Myrtie De Forest had brought light and sunshine, and her merry caroling echo '"1? through the passages and halls of Mrs. Murrav'a house was sweet music to his ears, and he would throw down his pen and listen to the clear, young voice till it passed out of hearing. Thrice Myrtie had come with the sum trier. Each time the house lost its brightness with her going. Aunt Fannie missed the winning, gleeful way and affectionate ca resses of her niece but Donald Emerson !ared not think how much this bright, young girl was becoming to him. She was a young lady, now, more shy and dignified, but quite as charming in the eyt of the grave, scholarly man though more hopelessly unapproachable She still loved her outdoor rambles her jaunts with.old Bess about tbe coun try roads, and her rowing on the little pond. Myrtie had become almost handsome as sne gre v. to womanhood. She had still the same bewitching smile the pretty dimples in her cheeks were not outgrown. Her hair of dark, rich brown, thick and lustrous, wasgath ered into a great coil low on her head, and a few sly? rings lay lovingly about the low, wide forehead. Scoteh songs were her favorites, as thev were. too. with her aunt and Mr. Emerson, wno never weari^OT listening to their sweet, sad strains. It was a sultry afternoon in August, not a breath of air was stirring, and the fierv heat was intolerable. Mrs. Murray was indulging in a nap in her own room. Mr. Emerson was prob ably engaged with his writing, and Myr tie De Forest, putting on a cool muslin dress, saunted down- to the pond for amusement. She stepped into the boat, and unfast ening it, picked np the oars and rowed lazily out from the shore. The heat was even more scorching on the water, and thinking she would go to the other side, where a great, over arching tree threw shade, she began to row more vigorously. A lew strokes, and then by some careless «r uncertain mo* 'lion, on* of ttaiwrs rlnwrti nwufcer grasp and passed fieyond "her reach, but she leaned frantically over in vain at tempt to regain it, and with her weight on pne side, the boat gave a lurch and she was precipitated Fiito the water. One wild effort to regain the boat, then all was a blank. When she me back to consciousness it was to find herself on shore with Don aid Emerson's strong arms about her *rd her he id resting upon his breast while with grave, anxious face he was looking for some sign of life. "My darling," he murmured, softly, and pressed a kiss upon her pale brow, while Mvrtie made an effort to prin, up, but her st ength was gone ana she sank back powerless. Then gathering her up in his arms a he would a child, he bore her to th house and laid her upon the lounge the sitting-room, and when he ha called Mrs. Murray, he went to hi chamber. Aunt Fannie proceeded to put a ver helpless, meek little girl into dry cloth ing then give her a hot draught an* sent her to bed two hours before sun set. The vigorous treatment averted am unpleasent results of the immersion i'i the pond, and next day Mvrtie was near ly recovered from the shock, a litt'« paler that usual, a trifle languished, b» a very interesting convalescent, Mi Emerson thought, when he entered tl sitting-room, and found her reclining upon the lounge. "Mr. Emerson, I owe my life to you,' Martie said, with emotion when hecami forward and took her hand in his, 'How can I ever repay vou?" and her dark expressive eyes filled with tears. "Dare I claim a reward?" Donald Emerson looked earnestly down in the young face, pure as the fra grant water-lilies in the vase on tin table. The look in his clear, gray eyes aske: the question he feared to put in word.v and a bright glow stainee the pale cheel of tbe girl, but when he asked witl voice husky with intense feeding, "wii you be my wife?" sha answered frank ly: I never thought of such a thing, Mr. Emerson. I am very grateful for youi the tears began to sparkle in her dark ayes. *"I will not distress you," Donald Em erson said "it foolish to think that you could care for me. We may be friend still?" he asked, holding out'his hand as he was about to leave the room. "Yes, oh, yes! I want vou always tc ie my friend," Myrtie exclaimed im pulsively. "Always, mvlittle girl," he answered, gravely, holding for a single instant bei little hand in his firm clasp, and then he left the room, while Myrtie, thought she did not love Donald Emerson the least bit, though it was rather nice to be loved. An hour afterward Mrs. Murray came in to fir.d .Myrtie's eras very bright and her cheeks very red, and questioned her anxiously, for she feared she was fever ish. "Not at all," Myrtie told Aunt Fannie /she was much better." "Mr. Emerson has gone away verv suddenly," Mrs. Murray remarked, afte'r a little pause, "to be uone an indefinite period, I should think, for he said it might be for a month or perhaps a year. Do you know any reason for his going, Myrtie De Forest?" Aunt Fanny ques tioned, with the sternness of a judge. "No—yes—well it might be what I said," Myrtie answered, with flushed face, and tearful eyes. Tuen she told her aunt what Mr. Em erson had asked, and her answer. "Foolish child," Mrs. Murray said, as she shut the door and left Myrtie to in dulge ina fit of crying. September came, clear and crisp, with its invigorating air, its breath of frosti ness. Myrtie would soon go home somehow she did not care as much for the country as she used to, she told Aunt Fanny, and perhaps she should not come next inner, at which Mrs. Murray smiled, when Myrtie's back was turned. "A letter from Mr. Emerson," Myrtie's aunt-remarked, carelessly, at the din ner table: "he has been ill since he went away. He writes that'he shall re turn when Miss De Forest goes back to the city, but he will not come to annoy her th his presence." "Auntie," Myrtie said, ina very per suasive tone, "write and tell him to come straight back. I don't want to keep him away from his home—and tell that—that—Myrtie De Forest wants him to come there, will that be an uninai denly message, Aunt Fannie?" "Quite the reverse, 1 should sav," Mrs. Murray replied, with a gleam of mirthfulness in her pleasant black eyes. Donald Emerson came back, and Myr tie, with the fickleness ascribed to wo men, had changed her mind, for to the same question again asked, she answered yes. Large and Small Heads. Lord Bacon says .in one of his apo thegms, "that wise nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceed ing tall men had ever very empty heads.'' This taying has often been used by way of a joke at the expense of tall people, especially those of wit, genius and repu tation. The same idea is thus quaintly put by witty old Fuller: "Often the cockloft is empty in those whom nature hath built many stories high." Bacon's notion may be true, though we doubt if facts eupport it. But thert is another certain saying which facts con tradict. It :is 'its that men of great intellectual power- a large and massive heads. GoMss!.. .1 brings out this vulgar opinion in the familiar lines about the village schoolmaster: "Amazed the gaping rustics ranged around And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small 4head knew." could carry all he A writer in the Journal of Science.says that the idea that a great intellect re quires a large head is not supported by facts: An examination of busts, pictures, medallions, etc., of the world's famous celebrities almost tends the other way. In the earlier paintings, it is true, men are distinguished by their large heads, but this is attributable to the painters, who agreed with the general opinion and wished to flatter their sitters. A receding forehead is mostly con demned. Nevertheless this feature is found in Alexander the Great and, to a lessei degree, in Julius Cfesar. The head ef Frederick the Great, as will be seen from one of the portraits in Car lyle's work, receded. Other great men have had positivelv small beads Lord Byron's was "remark able small." Men of genius of ancient times have only what may be called an ordinary or every- ay forehead, and Heroditus, Al cibiades, Pluto, Aristotle and Epicurus, among others, are mentioned as in stances. Some are even low-browed, as Bur ton. the author of "The Anatomy of Mel ancnoly," and Albert Durer. The average forehead of the Greek sculptures in the frieze from the Parthe non is. we are told, "lower, if anything, than what is seen in many modern fore heads." Postage on a letter from the United States to England is 5 cents: Russia, 5 cents Australia (except New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland)5cents China, via San Francisco, 6 cents Egypt, 5 cents. At the funeral of F. G. Stebbins, an ed itor, of Cuba, N. Y., by his request,there were no religious services, and on the way to the grave, his friends sang 'Marching through Georgia." In Winona, Friday, the jury in the ease of Carl McCormick, indicted for killing th* old man Rose In a saloon tracas last Sep* tembe^rrturnedaverdlct of MINNESOTA NEWS. l*w Supplement Error. By a typographical error in the pablica ion ofthe law cnpolement the words mort ager appeared in the ninth line of section 2 of law 101 and veader in line five, seetion 3 of the same law. Tbe words should have been mortgagor and vendor. Military Bummer Encampment. Whittf Bear, has been fixed upon as tbe spot for the annual encampment of the first regiment, M. N. O., which commences on Monday, July 9, and lasts until the follow^ i&g Monday. The St Paul & Duluth has ki dly agreed to furni free transportation for soldiers and impedimenta, and the site is unimpeachable in excellence, being near both St. Paul and Minneapolis, roomy well adapted to maneuvers. It is poesible that the second regiment will rendtzvous here and camp at the same place, but noth ing has been decided unon yet. A Soldier's Monument in Minnesota. Acker Poet No. 21, O. A. B., of St. Paul, proposes erecting a monument in the near future to the Union soldiers of Minnesota. The site selected is capitol square, St. Paul. At the meeting of the post Thursday night, the question was brought up and thorough ly discussed, the discussion finally ending in the appointment of a committer often, to conter with a like committee from Gar field post, and to take such steps in the mat ter as might be deemed necessary. Capt. Simonton was appointed chairman ot the joint committee. The plan of the monn ment is to be based upon that erectei sever al years ago in Manchester, N. H., and the estimated cost is something in the neigh borhood of $20,000. The money will be raised by subscription. A place will be left on the monument for the muster roll, and there will be inscribed thereon tbe names of those soldiers already dead nd those who will later pay the debt of nature. Frank Ennig, indicted for manslaughter, was acquitted by the district con at Worthington. The history of the deed is as follows: On Saturday, tbe 18th of last November, William uallagber of Leota township was on his way from Adrian. He stopped at the house of hia father-in-law George A. Beireis, in Lisinore township,' drove Mrs. B. out of the house, battered tbe doors and windows with an ax and at tempted an assault upon Frank Ennig, a German hired man, in-charge of the place during the absence of Mr. B«ireis. Galla gher left but soon returned, and wben a tew rods from the house Ennig fired at him with a shotgun, lodging about twenty buckshot in Gallagher's body, from tbe effects of which he died in a few minutes. Gov. Hubbard Friday pardoned Dr. M. E. Woodling of Minneapolis, convicted and sentenced on March 16 to one year's impris onment for assaulting and cutting George Knickerbocker, also of Minneapolis. The pardon was issued upon the receipt by the governor of a petition signed by over 600 business men aad physicians, and eleven of the jury who convicted Woodling. Knick erbocke- himself requested that the pardon be issued. By an act of the late legislature, the corpo rate «me of St. John's (Catholic) College, Stearns Co., Minn., has been changed to St. John University. The Ramsey county treasurer's books show a credit cash balancc ©f $156,925,94. Wednesday, March 14, was another red letter day in the annals of Carleton college a* Northfield, when the long-needed hall for the occupancy of the lady students in the college was formally dedica ed. This is conceded to be the finest structure of its kind in the northwest, and even compares favor ably with the extensive and elegant dormi tories of Yale and Harvard. Tbe building is 200 feet long, with north and south pro jections extending back 100 feet, and will accomodate 100 pupils, besides tbe lady teachers, matrons and domestics. Its 'oun dation is built of stone, the superstruc'ure of brick, and the interior finish is in natural woods, pine, butternut and oak. T. M. Slosson. who was nominated for city treasurer by the republicans in Minne apolis, is a brother of Slosson, the famous billiard player. A young :ran named Goliz, en-ployed in the planing mill of Messrs. Youmans Bros. & Hodgins, Winona, had one of his hands cut completely off by one of the saws at which he was working Tuesday. He is about eighteen years of age, and his parents reside in Winona. The unfortunate boy was at once conveyed to a surgeon's office and received prompt attention. At Fishers Landing, Polk county, the hardware store of T. A. Dunlave, tbe saloon ot Thomas Keely and the blacksmith shop and dwelling of James Brownlee were total ly burned. The loss is roughly estimated at $8,000. The insurance is: Dunlave, $2, 000 in New York Underwriters, $2,000 in Orient of Hartford, $2,000 in Springfield Fire and Marine. Keely had $700 in the Orient. The Ire started in the saloon. There was sold from the Maple Point Stock Farm, Dakota cornty, Leonard John son, proprietor, last week, a two-year-old imported colt to William Boothroyd of Welch, Goodhue county, for $1,800, and an imported stallion, fifteen years old, to P. H. Fockler of Independence, Iowa, $1,850. 1 A special meeting of the Minnesota Mil lers' State association will be held at the Nic ollet house, April 10. The election of offi cers and other business postponed at the an nual meeting will be considered. The Carleton college contest will take place at High School hall April 6. Five students will participate, and the winner will take part in the ^intercollegiate between the state University, Carleton and Hamline, April 19, at High School hall, Northfi«ld. The victor in this contest will enter the interstate contest at Minneapolis, May 3, on which occasion seven ot the Northwestern states will be represented. The bouse of John Carnegie of Preston was burned last Monday, with its contents. Loss, $1,500. 1 Levi Morrill, a respected citizen of Pipe stone died in that city on Monday, aged seventy-seven years. A Large Fire at Duluth. On Saturday last afire began at Daluth in the millinery store of Miss Merrill,on North Superior street, midway between Lake ave nue and First avenue west, and before it was nnder control destroyed half the buildings o' the square. It was caused by tbe explo sion of a coal stove in tbe millinery st re. From Miss£Merrili's millinery store tne fian-es communicated to Sullivan's restaurant, and soon on tbe east to Peter Dean's general store. After this, on the west, tbey attacked and destroyed Haug Bros.' billiard rooms. Hill's confectionery establishment. Geist's jewelry store, Ed. Wight's and G. Bird sail's saddlery stores and on the fast side, Sullivan's restauraut, 8. Weins' clothing -tore, Nil Hoff's shoe store. Dambruck's restaurant ands loon, and C. Porier's shoe 4ore. John Hoogb's dwelling house and other small buildings were also destroyed, and the entral house, a boarding house, *as about half destroyed. C. Porier, Nils Hoff, Matt Haug xnd others had dwellings over their mercantile establishments, l'he total losses agregate over $50,000, partially covered by insurance. A Virgina Bride and Groom. A bridal couple from Prince William county, ased 50 and 60, arrived on the local train at Alexandria Va., on Thursday afternoon, from Washington, and stop ped at an up-town hotel. Their "get-up*' was so remarkable that it attracted the attention of evenr one who saw them, and it is thus described: The bride's bat was of the latest design—a large black sundown, with a narrow band of purple ribbon around it, with a white pigeon wing fastened with two red rose buds and a black lace bow. The veil was of blue tissue, l'he dress was of the shade of terra cotta. Her shawl was of different shades. Her neck was adorned with a red polka-dot handkerchief, fastened with a red bow, and a pur of white cotton gloves covered her slender hands. Her shoes were low quartered Jeffersons. The^croom attired in black broadcloth, white vest, white tie, yellow buckskin gloves and linen duster. In one fund he carried a green umbrel la. and in the other an oilcloth ntcbel wWch lield the btfdal lnnch. 1 1 contest •r 1