The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume], December 25, 1879, Image 1

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Hut rah for Christmas.
Good sleighing now.
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Christmas cards at Burch's. 29tf
Quite a number of death* by freezing are
reported for Dakota.
The schools in this city begin one week
from next Monday.
Bismark, D. M. suffered a large loss by fire
on the 18th. The Sheridan House narrowly
escaped.
Buckwheat cakes are the best thing a per
son can eat of a cold morning. Try them
and see.
This kind of weather is to a pile of wood
what a big dose of pills is to a man with the
stomacli ache.
A line display of Holiday goods at bed
rock prices at H. F. Burch & Co's. 29 tf
Mr. MeClelen has taken the Compton
school vice Mr. Osborn resigned on account
of his health.
Don't forget to call and examine the ele
gant assortment of Christmas presents nt
P. arch & Go's. 2'Hf
Mr. McQuillan started for Dakota Monday.
H« goes to relieve Mr. Darling who is taking
& rest over the holidays.
The Republicans have chosen Chicago as
the city i'or the National Convention to be
held June 3, 1380.
A. W. Hull, of the Fargo Republican,
made us a visit last Sunday departing for
home Monday evening.
H. V. Burch Co. are going to erect a
large building on the cornepyof Third and
Front streets^arly in the sprhij.
Albums atVurcfT&\<^s.
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Del Bending desires us to say that he is
out of wood and will be very thankfaMoJtlte..
party who will bring him a load.
A man by the name of Torkerad was {co
ten to death near Rothsay, Otter Tail county
on la6t Saturday week, the 13tk inst.
J. M. Stowe called on us last Friday. Mr.
.Stowe. iMOjuth.
The. insurance amounted to atamt $7,50.
Dr. Dewey, of St. Paul, visited Mr. Katzky
last week and expressed great surprise at
the growth of Wadena since his last visit.
Dr. Eabcock, from Ogdensburg, arrived
in Wadena Tuesday. He coutemplates re
maining with us in the practice of medicine.
Two for 5 cent cigars at the Wadena Drug
Store. 304t.
The Quarterly meeting'of the Methodist
church will take place Sunday. Presiding
Elder J. B. Starkey will
fCs Any person-desiring to secure a good farm
/^"tvitli a Urgs portion of it ready for crop next
year, would do well to call ou or write to
Geo. M. Taylor at Wadena.
Harry Presson lost one of his horses on
his trip to Fergus Falls last week. The ani
mal was young and valuable and showed no
«igns of illness except in refusing to eat.
There will be preaching at the -school
house in Wadena by the Presiding Elder of
the Methodist church on next Sunday morn
ing at 11 o'clock, and in the evening at 7
o'clock.
We have received a fine large job rrint
jng press from the foundry of Frost & Perry,
8t. Paul. It is of the Peerless" manu
facture and is one of the best presses made.
Call and see it.
We see by onr exchanges that Hartly,, of
"the Brainerd Tribune, has been troubled
with worms. He has recently had one re
moved from his stomach, which was 30 feet
long. ''Ugh, big Injun." Heap worms.
The "Nursery" for January is before us
«nd is a very nice production. This is real
|y an excellent little magazine for the chiU
dren and wise parents iu subscribing to it of
ten do more good thau they tliink for in de
veloping a love for books in the little minds
A Chicago paper says A butterfly was
oaught at the South End yesterday." It may
be safe to catch a butterfly at the south end,
Irat when you go to grasp a wasp you want
to
eatch it at the northeasterly end.—Ex.
This is excellent advice for this time of
the year. It almost induces us to caution
QQr readers to use iced tea with eaution.
Parties
proving up or about to prove up
yniTt remember that the land office will he—
«ept no final proofs until 30 days have ex
pired from the date of the first publication of
proving up notic. Not -30 days from the
4ate of the notice but 30 days from the date
«f the paper in which it first appear*. Paste
Ibis up where yon can see it
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Mr. Williams, the taxedermist, proves to
be an artist in his profession. He has pre
pared a buck's head for us (which may be
seen at this office,) and the verdict by those
who have seen it is "It is the finest thing of
the kind I ever taw." And so it is a perfect
beauty. Mr. Williams miasion in this conn
try is to procure a whole moose and elk.
The frisky editor of the N. P. Farmer
wails because the people of his place mistake
his printing office for a barber shop. Too
bad Ed. but yon should leave off those strip*
ed stockings.—Jamestown Alert.
The spindle shanked editor of the "Des
ert" whose tonching sympathy is really at"
fecting is respectfully informed that we have
had no trouble since we discovered one of
his stockings he left when he departed for
Jamestown which the devil carried out on a
stick and buried
The Thermometer for the past week has
ranged as follows, the observations being
made at noon Thursday, 2 below Frida
3 above Saturday, 10 below Sunday 7
above Monday, 11 below Tuesday, 6 below
Wednesday, 13 below.
Many printers in the northwest do not
seem to be aware that there is a first-class
type foundry in St. Paul one lrom Which
they can get eve rrthinn in thfir line quicker
and at less expense for freight than they can
get the same goods from eastern founderies.
Messrs. Frost & Perry, the proprietors, are
gentlemen with whom it is a pleasure to do
business and we can reccommend them to
our brother printers.
Toy books in endless variety at Burch &
Co's. 29 tf
A Card.
MR. EDITOR: In regard to the appea
wade in your last issue in my behalf, the
motive may have b€eft*goSil '^2
personal for public priut. Hym^-houSe is
on fire, aud mv neighbor kruysu it, for the
i^Cihis place and
\iuty to go and leiid.a hand, and not stop to
charge other peopf^ with neglect. The
Christian principle is found in Matt. xi.
thank one and all for kindness shown. At
present I have all I'need and wish no more
appeals made in my behalf. A--
WILLIAM DENLET.
Announcement.
There will be a meeting of the citizens of
Wadena Saturday evening, January 3d, to
consider and finish the matter of the Shell
River road. All are requested to be present.
GUASD FESTIVAL —The Wadena Division
of the Sons of Temperance wile give a pub
lic festival at the school house, in Wadena,
the even ing"of January 14, 1880. Let it be
thoroughly understood that this is a public
affair and all are cordially invited. Let all
of our members turn out and we expect the
public to come and see that this temperance
organization is still at work and intends to
continue. By order of the Committee.
The Grist.
Merry Christmas to all, the Farmer greets
you Mrs. T. F. Ostrandtr put in a "5
and 10 cent, counter last week... Runyan
is swinging the paint brush in Gardner &
Case's office...." A little more cider too,"
is what Harry Presson sputtered out between
breaths when struck in the iron. by a stream
of that lucious liquor which spurted from a
keg he was tapping... .C. Potter & Co. have
some elegant chroiuos.. ..Mr J. Katzky vis
ited St. Paul last week .. .Mrs. Luce is also
a victim of the moustach cup joke"... .Wa
deiia is to have a first-class hall next season.
... .The county officers elect assume their
respective officers in a few days....Mr
Fields will probably make his headquarters
at H. F. Burch & Co's store Mr. Whit
ney, Couuty Superisteridcnt, bids fair to ele
vate the school interests of the county since
his business especially facilitates his opera
tions... .Remember the quarterly meettiig
sei'vices'of the M. E. church Sunday.. .The
Shell River road is completed the Red Eye.
Mr. 8. S. Gardner is expected home next
week..,...Don't forget the citizens meeting
one week from next Saturday.... New, Years
one week from today.
Taken Up.
Came into my enclosure the ffrst week in
December a red three year old heifer, one
horn broken and white star iu forehead. The
owner can have same by proving' property
and paying expenses of keeping and adver
tising. 313 JOHN COLSON.
Notice.
I have about 38 sheep for sale or to renf.
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WADENA, MINN. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25. 1879.
Neighborhood News.
COMPTON
From ear own eorrnpfcaitnt.
Vacation in the schools this week, and
our pedagogues take the opportunity to
spend the holidays where they please. One
of them, it is said, wap seen late at night fly
ing southward whistliag "The Last Rose of
summer" in the key of "E,"
Reuben Icker lost a valuable ox Saturday
night, liis team was called the best one in
the place.
A. M. Darling and wife leave for Douglas
county this week, to spend the holidays.
Our spelling achoafpre^felt under way,
and are very interesting, The next one
takes place on Friday evening next at sect
ion 8 school house, Everybody invited.
R. A. Darling teaches writing school twice
a week which is well attended.
Items are very scarce this week in this
part of town, and it is too cold weather to
run around to find what our neighbors are
about. MDGGIXS.
Wrightstown.
From our own correspondent.
The social gatherings of our young people
to pass the evenings in singing, danciug and
other amusements is an indication of good
feeling and friendship, and we are glad of it.
Some "frost nips" are reported nevertbe
less business moves right along just the
same.
All should look well to the stock these
days, and see that they have plenty of good
water, a warm stable well littered with straw
and an extra handfull of feed.
To be good is to be true, and in al! the
business relations of life let the principle oi
right have the controlling influence over ym
and all will come out just right.
"VThich is to blame the- managers of the
IER
or the post master we havn't had
our paper for two weeks. UNCLE TOCA,
AL.DKICH.
From our own cerrcapondent.
The folks are all well and well sati.-iSoa
with their homesteads and the oounti j, and
are all doing well.
Business is booming. S. Dower, one of
our largest farmers, has 40 or 50 jften to
work getting oi?t .wpp4, ties ^ind HirPk joi"
the railroad company.
Mr. Gray, of Elk fiver, with six teams ar.d
a crew of men have gone into camp 2 mil^s
north east of Aldrich and soon the big pine
trees will fall.
Our district school closed last Friday.
Miss An«ic Smith, of Ver^ale, was our
teacher, and she gave good satisfaction to all.
It is hoped that our school board will suc
ceed in getting Miss Angie to teach the next
term.
There has been three marriages in this
settlement within a month or so. Mr. Fariis
worth and Miss Eliza Gross, Charlie Lovt
joy and Miss Effie Handerson, and last but
not least Dennis Whalling and Miss Hayes.
T. iNTSBRBaaWS OP THB CTOXVPXXSlltiT PAOIFIO COUNTRY.
HOMESTEADEE.
LEAF RIVER M1L.L.S-
From our own correspondent.
The partnership in the miil businesa is
dissolved, Adams having sold his interest in
the mill. Henceforth Wright becomes pro
prietor.
Mr. BUiott has built comfortable quarters
for himself and family near the mill and is
getting things in readiness generally for his
lumber business.
Notwithstanding the cold weather the mill
is running at full blast and doing good work
PROGRESS.
INMAN.
From our own correspondent.
Well, Mr. Editor, what do you think abont
a Minnesota winter now Don't you think
we can get up about as cold weather as they
generally make. I do I don't know how
cold it has been for our "machine" frose up.
But it was somewhere between 40 and 100
nearer the latter than any where else.
Last Friday was de^bted first to freezing
and then thawing out again. Our boy was
out during the day but lie spent a good half
hjur to getting Jack Frost out of one of his
big toes, which was badly frozen. Elder In
man froze his foot quite badly. Hugene Sto
ry and his boy each froze two toes so you
see there was lots of freezing but nothing
serious.
Horn's Crocker lias gone and done just as
the FAKHEK told him to do. Got married.
Yes, it's a fact. I should not be surprised if
he should subscribe for jour paper yet. A
long life full of happiness is the worst we
wiah Ijiin. May otiter batchelors go and do
likewise.
How is this. Mr. Phil West took a load
of wheat to Alexandria. It was graded and
sold lor No. 3. II then took another load
from the same bin, nncleaned, just as it was
tak?u io Alexandria, to Wadena, and it.gra­
ded No. 2 without any trouble, and if it had
been oleaued would have gone No. 1. Yet
Alexandria is the place to sell your grain.
That's right, farmers, haul your wheat ten to
fifteen miles farther to market and get from
five to fifteen cents per bushel less than it is
bringing at Wadena.
Our school house has the seats all in and
is nearly ready for use. Elder Inman will
preach a dedication sermon next Sunday at
XI o'clock, dedicating the house to science
and religion,
We feel quite citified since our mail has
-got to running regularly.
Mrs. Mason, who has been away all sum
jrter^doctering, has just got home much im
proved in health and glad to see Inman.
From ourown correspondent
Busiuess is flourishing, and everybody is
up to their shoulders in the timber bu»ine*s
cutting tiles, ties, cord wood, etc.
W. R. Coons says he has got his fill of
Minnesota and st xrts for his old home in
Hoorsierdom. If the appetites of the mus
quiloes were as easily satisfied in their time
as Mr. Coons is we could enjov ourselves bet
ter in the summer.
Mr. Cawdy will move among lis next
week. Mr. Freelani will also settle ou his
land Unme.astely and commence operations
The Red Eye road is very near done and
will be cou pie ted and passable to the river
before this goes to the reader. The entire
cost ofthp road for 11 miles will be nearly
$9?, exclusive of corderoying. The land
along the road is being* taken up very fast,
and by a wideawake set of men. There is
undoubtedly tlie best timber claims along
the new road that there is in the northwest.
Potatoes seem to be in great demand as
some at Mr. Coons sale brought 70 cents per
bushni. 4-
Josse a".yi it take- practice to be a good
auctioneer ai.d especially to sell potatoes.
O K.
.• Our New York Letter.
NEW VOKK, Dec 15, Ij^D,.
i'K Aft FASfeERr^l^sive 'to inform your
reader* briefly of the greatness of- this city.
It is as impossible for a man reared in the
west to comprehend the magnitude of this
great metropolitan city of the New world, a3
it is for the patriarchs of the rugged hills of
New England to comprehend the vast agri
cultural and mineral resources of our new
empire of the north west opened to the
world by the rapid construction of our great
trails-continental highway—the Northern
Pacifut R. R.
New York, in mercantile importance, bears
the same relation to the United States that
London does to Great Britain. Taking a ret
rospective glance, we find that a little more
than two centuries ago this island of Mana
hata—its earliest recorded name-had its birth
day of civilization in a few rude huts and a
fort where Bowling Green now stands. In
this comparatively brief interval of tlie life
time of our nation it has bounced from an
infant village into a grand city of palaces
with its million of inhabitants. Now it is
the greatest workshop of the North Ameri
can Continent. The value of real estate in
the heart of the eity is mavvelous.
When I was here sixteen years ago the
American Museum stood nearly opposite the
Astor House, which has since burned, upon
the site of which the Herald building now
stands, purchased by James Gordon Bennett
of Barnutn, several years ago for which he
paid $300,000 for an unexpired lease of 13
years. The lot immediately adjoining this
with a frontage on Broadway of less than 60
feet was sold at auction for $310,000. Then
was "wartimes" and we was headquartered
in barracks in the City Hall Park. Now, np
on the site oi those wide barracks rises to a
lofty heighth the magnificent New York Post
Office at an expense of millions of dollars.
A iittle more than two centuries ago the
entire siae of this great city was purchased
of the Indians for what was the equivalent to
the small sum of $24. Now the assessed
value of its real estate alone exceeds $600
000,000. The costly stores and private resi
dences seem to be almost innumerable. All
along Broadway, its intersecting streets and
broid avenues, the eye is greeted every
where by long lines of stone and marble
buildings many of them of great architeotu-5
ral elegance. The several broad squares and
avenues iu the upper part of the city are
studded with a succession of splendid man
sions, in many instances costing from $50,
000 to $200,000. There arc estimated to be
some 300 churchss, many of them of costly.
A..1 magnificent proportions.
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DEXOO.
LEAF RIVER TOWNSHIP.
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TERMS $1.J0 PER TRA
IN ADVANCE.
A visit to the stork exchange any week
day from 10 am to 3 and you can be
hold such a scene of humanactivify, that it
will not be forgotten in a lifetime It is a
place, with which the world at .large daily -5
communicates with the greatest possibis
eagerness and anxiety Beneath its, dome
many mighty projects, have had their birth.
Forty new members have just been admitted
to seats within its walls for which they pay
$400,000 cash for the privilege.
A great characteristic of New York is din
and excitement. Like the west everything
is done in a nurrv.. It is especially noticed
in the great thoroughfare' of Broadway where
the noise and confusion caused by. the
cessant passing and repassing of j20,000
hides a day render it a babel Scene "of con*
fusion. There are 12
:i venues Running para
lei about 800 feet vpart and over 350. miles
of paved streets in the metropolis. The city
lias been laid out and surveyed to ex-?—
tent of over 12 miles from the battery.-
Sixteen years ago Central Park. war away
up on the out skirts of the citji'^ Now the
magnificent business flocks ari|£residences
are surroundiugit^nid eventually it will be.
in the heart of th^cft^. Then, if the *=ub
ject hud been argued &an. elivated railtoail
that would speed its trains of laden hiimK|ii-^
ty every five minutes al the rate of lo tjfiUeB
per hour, over tlie heads of the crowded5
streets, or advocated the projtjet ofc a ^Brookr
lyn bridge such as is nl»w tfeing built, he
would have been thought a fit subject for a
lunatic asylum. Every project that can be
utilized to annihilate distance is brought in
to use. The question now is not what, the
distance from one point to another is. but
how many minutes will it take to get there.
With the rapid development of the agri
cultural and mineraz resources of our coun
try, and the rapid increase of population
Neyv York will be likely to continue to pros
per and enlarge her already great dimen
sions until she will eventually entirely COT
er the entire area of Manhattan Island with
her streets, business blocks and residences,
and become the largest city in the world.
S S.G.
The Wadena School*
At the examination last week the follow
ing written examination in class "A" wis
passed and the scholars marked as indicated.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Define a circle and define the cirles .par
allel to the equator.
2 What is the difference between a me
ridian and a meridian circle.
3 Bound each zone.
4 Name the largest city in the world and
the largest in the United States.
5 Name the largest river in the wo.ld,
and the longest,
6 Name the countries in which the follow
ing persons reside and state the position filt
hy each. Dom Pedro II, Jules Grery, Alfon
so XII, Bismark and William Windorn.
7 State the difference between a Republic
and a monarchy and name lour Republics
8 Name 4 large rivers in N. & iJ. America.
9 Name two mountain changes in North
America and one in South America.
10 Name the largest fresh water lake in
north America.
HISTORY.
What is history and what are the benefits
deriv -d from its study.
Who first .discovered north America.
Who rediscovered it.
What European nations formily claimed
possession in north America.
Who made an important settlement uu
the Atlantic coast iu 1620.
Who first settled New York.
At what place and by what B. jtish General
was the most important surrender made iu
the Revolutionary war.
At what place and by what liebei General
was the most important surrender „ie in
the Civil war.
Write the names of all the presidents S.
Write a list of those who served 6 vsar
and of those who were elected Vice
dents and became Presidents.
Standing iu history Thomas Swindlehurst
10U, Joseph Swindlehurst 100. Onnan L*Uk
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4 10'Sherman
Pike 90, hmny «zkv £1
hddie Wisweli 50, Win, Swiuuteiuust" 4it.,
Standing in geography T. S.vind^uursi
J5, «h Swiudlehurst 95, Oria tn LftngiV
Sherman Pike 85, Win. Siviudieiuu,t ttf',
Edwin Wisweli 75, Etla Moore 90, Fanny
Katzky 30 and Katie Worth ingtou 80 ,s
Estray Notice. -.
Came wit!* my stock a light red voarl in
Sieer with white spot on face. The ownJr^
can have the same by paying e\-peu«
iPUl'cs,l®'i to the undersigned.
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