I'he tie Smet Leader. PUBLISHED SATURDAYS BY THE Leader Publishing Co. M. A. ISKOWN, Editor. TF.K MS: >nc* Year $1 f»0 Ux Months 75 'tree Months. in ’ I The cold weather in March luih trou- HH)leil some people a good ileal, especially MMhose who cannot ri-merntier from one |; year to another. We are not apt to have ’Shine weather in March, ami nobody (really expects it. ■ I ■ I Norway is having a tierce political jjjptrumrlo with the kin" and his ministers. {(■The entire cuhinet has Iteen impeached ■And the result of the trial is expected to I vance Norway ahead several decrees ■in political government. The two leginla aMtivo bodies are overwhelmingly liheral, land the upper brunch, composed ofthir ■ty libera’s and ten judges of ttiesupreme ■ court, who are conservatives, will try ■ the impeachment. The trouble ari>es from an attempt, of the legislature to amend the constitution, which was ve toed by the king: who claims an absolute veto in the premises. Europear travel will ho more genera! this summer than ever before. State rooms in all the first-class steamships have already been taken up to tin month of July. The question, What will a trip abroad cost? is being discussed with great eagorne-s. It depends, of course, upon whole and how one goes. There is not much difference in expense between travelling in America and in Europe. From $4 to fri per day for each person will pe a fair amount for all ne cessary expenses. Indeed, some people manage to ‘‘do” Europe much cheaper, but the large majority of people throw their monev away in high-priced hotels and first-class railway ears, when second class arc almost as good, and in going over the same ground twice. California at the present time is in os anxious for rain. Without it the crop: [will he very short. The bulletin savs: rfhe acreage in most of these counties (sown to wheat is larger than before. rThere is less actual suffering from [drought than had been supposed. It spring riins should be abundant, it is Iprobanle that the yield of wheat at the [next harve-t would not be much short U*f T>o,arl«*y and oat crops would be cor re ypondingly short. The demand fhr the publication of the ‘■pension lists is about to be answered by Ibe government by the issue of a work pf 4VKI pages, containing a complete list bf the pensioners, their post office ad* kites*, the amount of pension m eaefi i'case and the reason whv it is granted. [Much a volume cannot be placed in th hands uf every hodv, luitit will undoubt jedly tie placed within reach of all, and if the list contains fraud,the pension bu reau w ill be likely to bear of it. As mat ter of public information, the newspa pers will be likely to reprint such por tions ot the list as pertain to tln-ir con stituencies, and a good deal of light will be thrown upon the system which is tak ing so tiiiinv millionsanmially from the national treasure. At tin* next meeting of the senate of tin; t nited States, important changes will l»e made in the committees, owing to the large number of senator*. The committees are made up, as far rs practicable . under a system. A new member assigned to a committee goes at the foot of tbe majority if bo belongs to that side, and to the foot of the mi nority if lie represents tnat sid«*. His name is tlie las in the list of bis side, and lie advances bv 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, it Ip* desires it. If that sena tor has the chairmanship of another committee which be prefers, lie’ can re tain eho latter, and the next one to him on the majority list assumes the vacant chairmanship. In this way each change advance* every senator one step. The met nod is closely followed, and hence, by taking a committee list, it is enough to indicate maut* »-«t did not put to sea, and two ocean steamships sailed from New York with five passengers and tho oth r with none. The outward bound shipping waited in the lower hay and the damage to commercial interests in New York alone is estimated at a million dollars. The credulity and.alarm among toe 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, lie did not speak with any authority or es tabiished reputation. He had not been know u as a scientist an I 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 destruction of the world, and the weath er prophets will, doubtless, experience the same fate. But the stock of human credulity »s inexhaustible and, we may be rpiite as sure that there will lie some other form of prevalent delusion to meet the dm and for sensation «nd mystery Tho Earl of Dudley, whose income from his various mines often amounts to moio t Imti t*o,imo,OOU, is in a condition boid* ring on imbecility. THE DE SMET LEADER. VOLUME I. I'HE NEWS IN BRIEF. EVENTS IN WASHINGTON. Senator Angus Cameron will remain here til! 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 he a very quiet one A leading topic will he the presnlental succession. Senator Hoar’s hill he thought, would he pissed. Another leading question is David Davis’ hill providing tor the establishment of an intermediate court o( appeal. The hill, he thought, could he 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 sec rat that the president and secretary of the treasury think the number of internal revenue districts should he re duced to correspond with the abolition of the taxes. It is thought that the number of districts wi 1 he reduced from 126 to 110. The **ulk 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 vet. as there is n good r the benefit <*• mllufuru l.y Ika rweent Hoods ill tbc United States. The government bonds in which the Jap anese indemnity fund has been invested have been sold to the treasury department, and the f7*5,000 will be paid Ino Japanese minister. Kx-surgeon General Barnes is quite ill at bis residence in Washing on, and his friends fear tin* worst. Secretary Folger is quite ill, but is expect ed to recover. RAILROAD RUMBLINGS. Articles of incorporation of tbe Minneso ta Transfer Railway compinv have been tilled with tbe secretary of state. The bus iness of the company is to be conducted in both Ransey and Hennepin counties, with the principal office at S’. Paul. The amount ot eap;ta) stock is stated at $;J00 000, divi ded int*) 3,000 shares ot sloo each. The highest amount of indehtedmss to which t lie cor|K»rati« n shad he suhiect is limited to SIOO,OOO, exeluri' e ot indebtedness secur ed by mortgage. The lollowing are tin* incorporators, who are also named as direc tors: Hherburn 8. Merrill ot Milwaukee, William H Truesdale of Minneapolis, and James S Hill, Edwin W. Winter, and Her man Haupt of St. Paul. THE CR l MINA L H ECO Rh. On Saturday Frank Jones, alias Hoffman, was arrested in Uhicago, cn complaint ot a woman named Nellie Hoffman, the charge being bigamy. Hodman is a goldworkcr. He and a woman named Melville came on from Fargo three weeks ago. Hoffman acknowledges that he once traveled under the name of Jones, and that he was arrested once in Dakota on the charge of rot lung a stagecoach and murdering one of the pas sengers. A dispatch from Uniontown. Pa . says : N. L. Dukes arrived here from his stepfath er’s last night, ami thi> morning a commit tee of citizens wait**! on him and presented nim a reso ution adopted by the in lignation meeting recently held. They also gave no tice that he w< old have but 21 hours to transact his business and leave town. If fie a*tempts to remain it is thought there will he trouble. In the case of Edward Reokert. a newspa per reporter; who went to St. Louis from Chicago, got. a position on the Globe Demo crat, and soon after shot and killed Selina W'l«ot* h married woman, with whom he had held very close relations, the Jury fallen to agree. Dav*d Hefti, an old and well known citi zen of Stillw.ter , committed suicide on Sunday last. Some time since his wife left him and went to live with Peter Wick son. rids so preyed upon his m nd that he threatened to shoot Mr. Wick son. The detict ol Kay, late bookkeeper of the Merchant’s and I*l inter’s hank Montgom ery, Ala, who tuiculed, is placed at $ GO,- (XMJ. The bank meets all the lous. Amedee Bigot of New Y<»rk who killed Harriet Kanault, in 1880, and was declared insane, has been returned to the tombs bis reason being restored. Burglars blew open the safe of W. F. Ma son ol Willow Hill, 111., arid secured SI,OOO, most o' which was country taxes. Tney mused a package ot sboo. GENERA 1. SEIVS NOTES. During service at St. Paul’s cathedral. Ijondon, on Saturday, a well-dressed man ran up the altar steps with his hat on, leaped upon the altar and dashed the cross, cwndlesiicks, vases and flow* rs to theground The dean and several others secured the man after a struggle, and him into the custody of the |M>iice. In the excite ment m»ny persons left the church, horn ged at the sight. Excitement was occasioned at the Pitts burg Oil exchange yosterdiy over the fail ure of Samuel B. Thompson to meet his DE SMET, KINGSBURY COUNTY, DAKOTA, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 188#. contracts and the subsequent selling out of 50,000 biurets of his oil by President Coch rane. Thompson was treasurer oftheex changeand one of the heaviest and most reliable dealers on the floor. Charles Beckman of Baltimore was en gage! to the daughter of his employer, Jacob Heinan, a dry good merchant, and absconded on the eve ot the wedding because his prosj*ective father-in-law would give hint only $5,000 Instead of $1(0,000, as he wished. Tlte girl a belle in German society is ill in consequence. A kite was recently made at Rochester, N. Y., with 250 square feet of surtace. It was flown with a threr-eiguts inch rope 5.000 feet long, ami shot into the air like a balloon. Alter floating a m : le high for two hours it was brought down only by means of a pulley and team. Winter wheat promises well in the south west. Illinois expects a loss of 25 per cent, from the Hessian fly. K uisas figure pre dict a yield of from 30,000,000 to 40,000,000 bushels. At Boston the is announced of the well known wool house of Harrison *fc Si onds. Liabilities, $75,000. It is under stood the firm will settle and not resume. The Apollo commandery ot Knights Templar, Chicago, think of going to Europe in addition togoing to the triennial conclave at San Francisco. Gov, Bate af Tennessee© has signed the bill to piy the state debt at 50 cents on the dollar,*and 3 per cent, interest. The lust seat sold in the New York stock exchange brought $28,u00. Eugene Dewey w.is the buyer. Four tons of Easter cards wen through the New York posiotlice. 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 ct, omitting no means to provoke French hostility to England. The result of his repeated interviews with Mr. Henri Roehtford is apparent in the Intransigi* lam’s open advocacy ot war with Great Britain. He condemned thePhu iiix park murders, declared that Carey was a govern m« n» agent Who had controlled these mur ders and led astray the poor fellows who committed them, and that he had received f.'ki,odd reward. He attributed tlte London i-xplosion to freethink* rs. When parlia ment resumes its sessions Parnell will he n?ktd either to cdntlim or deny these state ments. Henry August Varroy. who died Satur day in Paris, was minister of finance u derDe Freyi inet from January until August. 18*2, and was succeeded by Tirard. He was an intimate friend of De Freyeinet. He had been three times minister of public works. He was born in 18*20 at \ ittel, in the Vos ges. He was til ) four and looked much older. He. wish IK* Freyeinet, organized the transport service during the war. Yar rov hel|**d to complete (lie magnificent rail way scheme which De Freyeinet planned. The Chronicle of Maryborough, Queens land. has an account of the arrival there ol Bernard Uilfoy of Buffalo. N. Y., who leP San Francisco, Aug. 111. 1882, in an eighteen foot dory Tor Australia. The voyage was prosperous until the latter part, when he capsized twice, lost his instruments and had his provisions damaged. He was picked up Jan. 2D by a coaster, 100 miles from the coast ot Queensland, in an exhausted condition. The French Revision Constitution league has published its programme. It attacks the pre-ent constitution a> framed in the inter est of oligarchy, and declares that reform or a durable g ivernment is impossible with two legisla.ive houses. Lord A Munti, produce shippers, keep up tin* Montreal record with a $250,000 failure. Tbe health of Kmj*eror William contin ues to improve. i'E IISONA L FA RAG RA FIIS. Ex-Senator Kellogg is feeling xery ner vous over th** aPitod" of Brew. Her who threatens to have him indicted. Last year when the matter came up, Kellogg cracked th** whip over Secretary Chamber. The lat te r used his influence and saved Kellogg. Now it is arid that ('handler does not fear Kellogg, and is willing for the law to take it** course Kellogg “ays he has documents in his possession which will make it "hot ■*s h —ll” for all concerned. John Howard Payne’s body arrvied Satur day morning, s.ml was placed in the chapel at Oak Hill cemetery, where it will remain several days before being remove*! to ttie vault. It will probably be interred in tbe lawn facing the entrance, where a monu ment would be very conspicu »us. Paymaster C. H. Smith has been retired under the sixty-four years-of-age rule. Maj. Smith was the appointee of Hayes, and his nomination called forth a storm of obj*c tions, on the ground that 1 e had done nothing deserving of such substantial re ward. The funeral oftlie late <'«pt. J. R. Hatch er took place from St. Paul’s Episcopal church, Winona, un*l**r direction of the Masonic fraternity. The brother and sister arived from St. Louis and Cordova. 111., to attend the Mineral. Major General Strange and family ot Kingston accompanied by Lord Bayle, Hon. H. Bayle and Mr. Wilmont of Eng land will leave Ottawa Wednesday morning next for the northwe t, intending to take up (arming lands. W. Pitt Washburne. son ot Klin.i Wash burne, told his friend-* at Galena the other day that his ’ather had entirely recovered from his injuries in falling from ahorse and was in better tiiati usual health. It is an o|»en secret that I)r. McCosh will retire from the presidency of Princeton col lege in June, There is talk ot his having charge ot a school of philosophy connected with the college. i Ex-Senator Sharon has paid over tc the widow of Btuker Ralston $120,000, which he bad borrowed. Ralston’s family are in destitute circumstanciß. Win T. Hentmenway, a well-known Methodist of New York, has given nearly Idoo.tiOO to tt e church and charitable in stitutions. Joseph Cook is to lecture in St. Paul, April 28. Fx-Representative Dunnell is ill in Wash ington. Export or Breadstufft. The reports of the exports of domestic breadstuff's for the eight months ending with February shows an aggregate increase over the th it members of the 'am* ily were telegraphed for to come on the first train. HecwntiMiiei to grow worse, until about 2 o'clock t 'is afternoon when he pass *'d away without a struggle. He was in the fu I possession of his Masoning faculties, until about 10 o’clock this morning Alter that he was at times s -in* what flighty, nut recogniz'd his daughter, wht> ar rivtd at 11 o’clock from Washington, hav- ing started before the summons was rtreived lie made no mention of hi* approachit g .b aih. ami it is not known whether he real i/. d that death was ao near at hand or not. I’he remains will be interred at Green Bay in the family plot, by the side of h * wife. A Green Bay special says: He had sjtont just a week here and his vigor and spirts were remarked by friends. He had been engaged quite actively during the the Week looking after Various private fnt* rests, including one or two farm? he ha* taken pli a ure In having oper ated. He contracted the cold which termi nated his life hi re on tlie liut day of his 'day, adding to it, friends here have harried, during the rid** on the cars when leaving here. Judge Howe, as he was universally know n here among his old neighbors, wa* among the oldtst ciUzons of Green Bay. and certainly among the best kt own. During all Ins long public life, and the shifting scenes that have called him from here, lit* has riling to the as>oe a., parents, and supplemented this by private research and close study, which fie peise vered In throughout Ids’ life. When he at tai ed maturity he studied law in the office of Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, afterward virc presl lent, in Paris, Maine, and admitted to the bar, led the life of the usual provincial lawyer until I:-<4. when he entered politics and made his Jlist legislative appearance in 1845. having been elected to the state legis lature in the campaign of the fall before. In the autumn ot I*ls he removed to Wis consin, the scene ot his middle age forensic triumphs, arid settled to the practice ot his profession in Green Bay—h s Lome ever since He held distinguished positions in Wis consin and in the national government. In lMsuhe .*as elected judge of the circuit court. At that early oate thecir euit judges sitting in banc, constituted the suprtine cour* of ike Slate, and of that supreme be eh Judge Howe was. for a time, chief justice but resigned in 1h55 to asuine his practice. In 1857 he wan a candidate f or the Senate Against various competitors, the prize being won by Mr. Doolittle. When the legislature net in January. iMil, M r. How* was enabled to change bis prefixed appellation from Judge to Senator. In jst>7 Sir Howe was reelectid to the senate ami egairi in 1873, in the for mer campaign without any, and in the lat ter with hut little, opposition. Senator Howe and General Grant were warn* friends, and in 1874 when Salmon I\ (’base died Howe was otiered the* chief jus ticeship of the United States. This he de clined, In 1870 Senator Howe was a participant in the well-remembered and ex ceedingly interesting senatorial contest known us the triangular fight, Mattt’ar penter and E. W. Keys being his oppo nents. By good formneand persona' mag netism ami n host of other favoring circum stances Carpenter won, ami Howe returned to Gr*en Bay. In 1 S'*l he was api*o nted pO'tmasDr general by President Art Mir. Senator Howe married comparatively tar ly in life, and his wife Ji d in 1881 He hail two children, Frank, now a i racticing lawyer in Wa-hington ami for a short time chi*f clerk in the |x.stal depart ment, and a daughter wt o man ini ."olotiel Enoch Totten, of WasMn ton. It was at her house the late postmaster gcurtl as sisted at the brilliant receptioi *of last win ter. His other surviving relatives are a nephew. Colonel Janies 11. Howe of Keno sha, a d a nboe Mia* Grace Howe, of the same p!«'e. While not in poverty by any means, d* erased was not wealthy, and nothing h is ever heen whispered against hi* probity and integrity. Changes In Revenue Receipts. Tue internal revenue receipt the issr ti«eal year were $l4O 400,000. The receipts from July 1, 1882. to March 21. 18H3. exceeded the receipts tor the corresponding |>eriod last year by $72,200,000. Kstima’ed receip’s for cur rent ti-cal year, il there be no reduction in taxation, will amount to $148,025,0 0. De duct on account of changes in revenue laws. $5,000,000, the total estimated receipts of the cu’fent tDoal y**ar are $143,025,000. The estimated increases or decreases of revenue for the remainder of the current fiscal year compared with last year, are as follows: Increase on spiriis $1,500,000 Decrease from banka and bankers. 2.400 000 Decrease from sneeial taxes 1,000 000 Decrease Irom a*lhesivc status 500 000 Decrease from tobacco 2,000,000 Total decrease 1.5n0.0n0 Total decrea e 6,500 ttOO Net estimated decrease 5,000,000 Devil's I*ake Hand Office. Washington Special A good deal of anxiety is manifested among those con cerned in Dakota land matters, to know the location of the land office in the new land district of Devil’s lake. The matter has not yet l*een settled by ihe department, arid communications are still being received in behalf of certain localities. A gentleman who had a talk with the secretary of the interior on the subject said to-day that Cree'e City had a great many friends. “But,” said he, “if I were to guess, basing my gueaa upon the information I have ob tained, which is more or less likely to be reliable. I should say that it is to he lo- cated at some place on the west side of Devil’s lake, at a pi ce perhaps not yet named, where there is a junction of two railroads, the Northern Pacific and another branch, or some other road near the lake.’’ Frosliela In Nova Scotia. A Halifax dispatch says that reports con tinue to arm® from all sections of damage to projxirty from freshets. While the losses have not l>eeu 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 statement* of widespread inundation and disas’er. The Halifax A Ca|»e Bieton railway is seriously wished near Antigon i*h. The bridges Ht West River and other parts of Picton county are gone. Sher brooke is flooded. Families moved to the tipper stofies of their d. ellings. All mining has ce**ed and all small bridges have been carried awav. * A Freight and tvraonal ftagfCAU**. The Northern Pacific and the Manitoba railways have issued a joint circular to agents and connecting lines, informing them that large quantities of miscellaneous freight are being checked through as hag gsge to [mints on and tia thei* road* Hence they are conWellei! to eivo notice that hereafter they w'ill decline to receive in iheir luggage cars anything which Is not strictly baggage and all mi-c*lfaneouJ mat ter faring through checks will he turned over to the freight department or express company. The Land Grant Merisi* ns, The Washington National 14qu liran Ims an editorial his m irning criticising an article published in the tPcago Tribune charging that the interior department lias,for several \ears, been used by the land _*rant railroad companies. I'he 14 ‘publican says: “The Tribune is in err >r in most of its state ment of fact, a*, for example, when it states that the Kuiskern case in Minnesota had been permitted to stand in favor of|the railway company; whereas Secret *ry Teller overruled that order, and |cave the£land to the “ettler. The decision in th’s case is one of those which will save their homes to hundred* of families. In the Graham case also in Minnesota, lie has also dteided against toe railroad. During thejlast y«ar, 75 per ot the » m*cs brought between set tlers and railways have been‘decided against the railways." Why Minion H Paige Suicided. An Oshkosh (Wis.) Special says: The theory that financial difficulty was the di rect cause of the death of Simon B. Paige at Davenport recently is pretty well Authenti cated, though strenuous efforts have been made to keep Die trim condition of his affairs from the public bv drawing aMention nr other problematical causes. However much these causes hut! to do with Mr. Paige’s death, the r®al cause is now prettv well es tablished a* a “tress of tin ncial di* culties. The three banks here field ihe firm’s naner to an amount b (tiering on SXkiOUO. Other I anks are in the same predicament, loeattd In Sr. Paul, Duluth, Sui»efiof City, Green Bay. Ntcnah, F*.»*;*i du Lac, Berlin, Daven- I»*mi, lit , mi*l -a I*'<*.,*«*<•»» nnnpcrn In ('on* Cofd. Th® liabilities oftlie firm are believed to he from liXXLOon to sooo,o<>o ami two thirds of the amount Is In paper held by these banks. The total assets is rather a difficult matter to get. COMMERCIAL* Chicac.o Market. Flr>ur.nni**t amlancltungoil VMiea', uuaettied and l< w* r; $l.Ol 4 s March: Hii4 , l April: $I.O0V'!l 10 May: *llit' 4 -/ t lo'„ June; Jmv: No. 2 Uhic.tg" Hpruig. $1 N<>. 8 Chicago ring, OJ *}jo; N". 2 red winter, if J.oB cash. Corn, un-ollled «n lower; so' v •t52?4C rasti; 50*ac March; 50? 4 * Ai*r l l; 55*4 May; 50c June; 57V<*57V* Ju y. Outs, cgetied w**ak and lower; closed firm: outside (irTcs, 4oc cas*'; 30**sc March and Ai»rd; 42 : S <*<42Hjo May; I2(g42*ec June; 41c July. Rye, lower; si*c. Harley, nomiiully unchanged Flax »eed. higher; if 1.41 ($1 42. Pork, untu-o ed and higher; !f17.05«i1H cash and March; sl7.o7hii*J l*.\ ril: +i hi 2*a "I*ls May: *ls.:to,'i ih :t2' y June: iflH.4 » iIH. 17*g July. Lard, unv t* I**1 ].o7*a April; sll 22*_* " 11.25 Ma\; ifl 1 27*g'U1.30 June; July. Du k meats in fair demand; ribs, slt 05; do clear, $10.35. Butter, s’eadj and unchatiged. Kggs, nominally unchanged; 15; Jun-, fl.loq; No. 3, HOc; No 4,75 c; rejected, 03c. lorn, noud nul y weaker: No. 2,53 a Ojt*. *|Uiei, n unina ly uncha’g-d; No. 2,30 Die; Rye. qun t and un change.: No. 1,50 c; No. 2. 50c bid. Barley, 111 fair demand; N" 3, ex ra. sD<*s7c. Provisinn*, miet; Mess pork, SIH 15 cash and Mar h: +l** 35 Mas Lard, prime ate. l tn, $1 1 1.5 cash ami March; $11.3.5 May. Butter, it"i” faumv. $5.7’»: \X\X. s4..'»«K<» 5. f*o: in bb* 25c. «'Xtr»i; otiinitle br.w> *, 25n50c nrr hb I«**, according to qual ty. Hnck f!-ur, $n «H.fm i»er bbi. Hve flour, $-1.50 jiet l>l»l. Oratiam. #5 |«*r bbl. WHKAT—Th»* n •’ket « «• v« ry dull, there twi»>e no particular demand. Offering* re only modul ate, receipt* being linbl. Chicago w.»» up and ilowu In th" market, but tin* mui la»t work’s figure*. No. 1 hard, ♦ 1 1«» bid, $1 I2a-k**d: May. $1.17 *«ked; No. - turd. $1.05 bid, $ ].07 aaled; No. V, o*»c •» ¥ 1 bid. ( ORN —Pull, but a little tv re ttrm!\ h id on light r« evil) a; No. 2, 4’to In), 3'2c i^ldhli May, 51c naked, i.« n lulled, 10c #«k'*d K»’e,: 1 e-ar No. 2, 51c. Oats —Nothing doing in drat band*. Local in* quirv moderate; market fairly steady at generally uiiciiiuiy d quotation*: No. 2 mixed, s**c bid, l<*c a-k'd: April, .We bid, 41c asked; M»y, 4tia ar Iretng worked off pretty fa>»t. buy era are not ready iu load up ak'iui Juat yet. Theft I* about two-fifth* of the car a< itv of the eity at work and still the d.d.y sales Un not equal the rla Jy ou pu*. I’a enta are quoted at s<>.&tH?».7; straight*, sjs so»r«fV-5: clears, yo.{. 25 per bbl, MILI.STUFF*— Bran wa* in a little better requeat yesterday. The sales of bulk on track were u-u.tlly at about $lO per ton. snd shor a at about $1 1 ; course corn meal at $ 17.50c* 11*. on track; s!Hrr 10.50 f o. b.; miaed feed, $1««<419.50 on track; sl* 50'<<21 f. o. b W eat—T here was a good demand for at.ot and for futures yesterday. Bpot No. 1 hard sold to the extent of alt offered at sl.ll>e. Bales to arrive in ten days brought the same as >pot. For May. $1.15 waa bid, and sllO was asked. No 2 hard brought $1.09; No. 1 Northern. »1.07«f*1 .OH; No. 2 Nortbetn, $1 «>4 «1.05; No. If waa offered at $1 02, and $1 waa bid. (Yhn—Weak and lower; No. 2 from afore war held t 51c in store, 52c f o. b. May waa offered in 5,0 i O bu lota at 52 '*<•• 52c waa bid for it Oath— Steady *t 40c lor No. 2. According to a w riter in the journal ot Mental Science, the popular belief that men of great intellectual powers have large heads is not borne out by facia. An examination o; bunts, Di lutes, me dallions, intaglios, etc., of the world's celebrities points the other way. NUMBEIt ». TERRITORIAL NEWS. Dakota Territorial Items. The five year-old son oi huneon Me- Mirnev of klk Point, bitten by a do#, died of hydrophobia. The federal gfrtnd jffrv in ML Louis re turned Hineiided indictments Martins: Russell, ( ameron and ( 'arpenter,charged with concerned in Dakota land st rip frauds. The farmers’ hotel at Big Stone City, was burned. Several people narrowly escaped with their lives. Loss, $3,000; partially covered by insurance. A prominent local politician insulted the w ile of a gentleman from Dakota on Mason street, Milwaukee, ami was promptly punished by the irate bus!mud But for the interference of the woman the politician would have been seriously hurt. Col. E. C. Geary of Plainview, Minn., lias entered upon his dfltiea as receiver of the Fargo land office. Ilis predeces sor, Thomas M. Pugh, will return to his business interests in Mi nkato. A melee occurred in Dawson a few days since, arising from the county seat vrar in Kidder county, and Mike Mc- Laughlin vfas shot in the ear, and per haps fatally wounded. A Coach load of passengers, and twen ty-five car load of immigrants’ movables, will leave Grand Rapids, Mich., for Da kota tbs week. Their point of settle ment is New Buffalo, which they will reach by way of the Northern Pacific, seven car load* of furniture, agricultur al tools and passengers took the North ern Pacific one evening for Dakota. The total land sales of the Northern Pad fie for February are stated at $224,{120, ot which $02,250 were for tow it lots. The sales to actual settlers areof very gre>M importance as an indication of the course oi business, not on this road only, but on others cast of it. Huron is to have a new three-story hotel, 40x100 feet. Under the new apportionment law the legislative district of which Yankton couiry is apart is the only district in :he* territory w hich has hut one repre sentative in the house. All the others have two, except the Black Hills district, w hich has three. The newspapers of southern Dakota are giving u hearty second to the prop osition for a constitutional convention Ht Huron made by the exec utive com mitce. This is purely a south Dakota affair and it is proposed to make a constitution for south Dakota alone. The election In Kidder county,to vote bonds for a $23,000 court house at Steele, was carried by seventy-seven majority. Mr. McNally, of the great railroad pub lishing bouse of Rand, McNally & Co, l»1d COl. tWimn. ‘We pok nut more maps of Dakota than wo ever did of any other five states and territories. 1 never saw anything like your Dakota boom.” The city council of Fargo recently rat ified the contracts for two bridges across the Bed river. The expense will be borne by Fargo and Moorhead. They will cost about $20,000 each. It ia aemi-oflicially stated at Washing ton, that Indian Agent Park hurst, of Brule ugenov, will speedily be reques ted to resign. He is charged with not aiding the Sioux commission in their treaty with the Brides hst fall, anti with having, through ins vacillating course iu that anti other matters, lost the respect and confidence of his wards. His suc cessor's name has not yet been men tioned State Superintendent Atkers has ap pointed a convention of county school superintendents at Spirit Lake, July 3-10, at w hich w ill be represented the counties of Beuna Vista,Cherokee,Hamilton,Har din, Humboldt, Pocohontas, Plymouth, Webster, Woodbury, Wr ght,Allamakee, Brewer, Butler, Clayton, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Fayette. Franklin, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winnishiek, Worth, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth. Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Palo Alto, Sioux, Winnebago. Bowen Kingsbury of the Yankton Dakotian liave been designated to print the territorial laws their hid being the lowest. J. H. Teller, the newly appointed sec retary of Dakota has tuken the oath of office, George 11. Hand retired from the secretaryship. The Red field Journal risks its reputa tion on the prediction that before snow Hies next fail there will not be a claim to be bad in either Faulk. Potter, Walworth, Edmunds, Hand, Hyde or Sully coun ties. George Knowlton, alias “Rebel George,” tried in Yankton for the mur der of David Rauck, at Fort Pierre, in 1877, was on the 15th inst., in comoany with the notorious Doc. Boggs »nd an other “con” man, arrested in Chicago by ietectives for complicity in crooked work. I-arimore, is agitated over a report that Theodore Hotten, machine agent. »unde tected in improper relations with one Eliza Anderson of Excelsior, Wis.. in the Sherman house of the former place Fridav. An observing servant girl gave the couple awav. Hotten is said to have a wife and family at Lake Park, Minn. Col, Loonsberry has spent the winter in Washington as a well-paid star route witness, putting in his spare time at the postoflice department, with tue result that his salary as postmaster at Bismarck has lieen increased SI,OOO, and addi tional clerk hire allowed. Cue hunderedand fifty cars of imm grant’s movables were at Winona depo! Friday morning, en route to Central Da kota. Grafton claims to have had a trade of $1,458.000 the past year, with 277 new buildings erected at a cost of $32 i ,505. A colony of 250 members, has been formed to locate at Aberdeen, of Welsh families from Milwaukee and Racine, Wis., and Chicago. An English traveler in America records as one result of his observations the general sadness on the faces of oar men of attain as they go about the streets. love and religion. Marrying the Worldlj Fellow to Otr rect Him. From the Brooklyn Eagle. “You won’t give me away?” so® ac claimed earnestly, as the Questions ?An severed man handed her to a chair 2and assumed his.most sympathetic aspect. “If mama krew I came to yon there would be no end of fuss! But whet could 1 do? I want advice, and I knofr you can give it to me.” “What is it all about?” inquired the Questions man, kindly. “I am in ever so much trouble, and I want to do what’s right,” she eigbed. I w ish I could see my way clear.” “Sunday school teacher?” asked the questions man, eyeing her keenly. “Yes,” she replied. “I ain a Monday school teacher, and there are two young men In love with me. One is so good that he makes me cry to look at him, nut the other is worldly. He smoke* ind plays billiards and all tint sort or wickedness, but he takes me out and Jvca me ovate** and cream while the ,ther one is home learning B'bir verse*- Lvery time I go with him I feel «<> wicked, and when the good one cornea round to go over the lesson with me, I tVel that lam not worthy of him. till, w hut shall 1 do?” “Don’t the good one ever set up any thing’’” asked the Questions man f ecratcL* mu his chin. “Ob.no! He says that oyster houses and cream saluons'are snares and abom inations.” , ... . “lie’s right about that!” murmured the Questions man. , “And he says that I should not in flame my soul with stews or cool it off witu cream.” “Which of them has the most money?” queried the Questions man. “Oh. the good young man has the most money,” she replied. “But ho never takes me to the theater or the opera, We go to church together and he talks so beautifully of the sweet by and bv. You ought to hear hiiu?” '“What does the other fellow talk about?” “Oh ho always talks about rackets, and wants to know where I would like to go next. But 1 must give one orfthem up, and 1 want you to advise me which l shall keep.” “It’s a pretty plain case, I think” commence I the Questions man. “ fou should hang on to the bad man who Beta ’em up." , , , ~ ~ “Think so? she exclaimed, with delight. “Do you really think I would he happier with him?” “Stick to him until you marry the good one. That’s obviously your duty as a Christian. A girl never gets so tick: of anything as of a pious lover who never sets anything up. You cling to tile bail one who buys cream anti oysters and maybe vou’ll convert him. If you don’t you’ve got the other fast for the marry when you get ready to settle down.” “That’s what ma said,” faltered th« beautv, modestly casting down her eyes. “And if you agree with iter I don’t see what eDe there is for me to do ” “Strikes me that’s curious advice,” re marked the law reporter, as the girl went out. “Don’t yon bother, young man, ob served the Questions man with severity. “That pretty little Sunday school teach er isn’t going to marry either of them, she just wanted my advice to hold over that pious chap, and vou mark my words she’ll work both those fellows all the caiuiy, cream oysters, matinees, operas and things of that kind there are in the city of Brooklyn from now to the time they all go out of season.” “And do vou call that Christian ad \ i< e? the law reporter. “Don’t, mind, soupy. She’ll go around and tell what a nice lot of fellows we are here, and it will increase the in (luence of this paper among the church es more than any reporting you can do from now till that girl gets married and don’t you forget it!” And the Question man went back (o his work, while the law re|»orter looked it him witli the awe that worldly wis dom always inspires in the winds of the innocent. What the People Drank Six Hun- rireti Years Ago. From the Ninteenth Century. The poor man had little to sweeten his lot. The bees gave him honey, and long after the time I am dealing with peopie left not only their hives to their children by will, but actually be queathed a summer flight of bees to their friendr; while the hive was claim ed by one, the next swarm would be come the property of another. As for the drink, it was almost exclusively water, beer and cider. Any one who pleased might brew Iteer without tax or license, and every body who was at all before the world did brew his own beer according to his own taste. But in those days the beer wa9 very different stuff from that which you are familiar with. To begin with, people did not use hops. Hops were not put into beer nn»il long alter the time we are concerned with. I dare say they flavored their beer with hoarhound and other herbs, but thev did not under hand those tricks wide i brewers are said to practice nowadays for tusking the beer “fieadv”und sticky and poison ous. lam not prepared to s.iy the beer was better, or tnat vou would like it; but I ain pretty sure tli »t in those davt it whs easier to get pure beer in a coun iry village than it is now, and if a man diooxe to drink bad beer he bad only himself to thank for it. There was no such monopo ly as there is now. I am inclined to ttiiuk that there were a very great many more people who sold beer iu the coun try parishes than sell it now, and 1 am sorry to say that the beer sellers in those days had the reputation of being rather a bad lot. It isquite certain that they were very often in trouble, and of all of fences punished by fine at the manor courts none is more common than that of seiitlig beef in false !TV*B«Mrw*. To bacco waa quite unknown; it waa first brought into England almut three hun dred vears after the days we are deal ing with. When a man once sat himself down with Ida pot he had noth ing to do hut drink. He had no pipe U> take on his attention fr jin his* liquor. If such a portentous.sight could have been seen in th .se days as that of a man vom iting forth clouds of smoke Irom his mouth and nostrils, the beholders would have undoubtedly taken to their heels and run for their lives, protesting, that the devil himself nad appeared to them, breathing forth tire and flames. Teaand coffee, too, were absolutely unknown, unheard of; and wine waa the rich man’s beverage, as it is now. The firewaters of our >wn time—the gin and the rum, which have wrought us all anch incal culable mischief—were uot discovered then. Esquimaux are said to be able to see objects to a much greater distance than Americans or Europeans, and this re markable keenness of vision enablos them to spread intelligence bv means of sign telegraphy over hundreds of miles in a aingle day. A milliner Conn., bss closed out her business and applied foi a license to sell intoxicating liquors.