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*31Sf^ \f "*j^s*rw p"^. I -(Tt "?f? f^""^H ^Ff 1 "^UA x'' -'T'' aily (KlnhE Fern** of Subscription to the Daily Globe. Bt On Yie per month. .70c By Mail, per uiontli... 0: 8 months..*V! Id Smooths.. 4 21 12 months... 84 i 70 Cents a Month! THE DAIL GLOBE BY OAltMER. SEVEN PAPERS PER WEEK 70 Cents a Month! ST. PAUL. FRIDAY. AUGUST 0, 1878. CHICAGO'S new chief of police has an nounced as his policy the suppression of all gambling. The board of trade members, however, don't appear to be greatly annoyed, and will keep on as usual fleecing each other in "corners" and "squeezes." THE inquiry comes from the East: "Where is Howard?" He is gallantly keeping a chair from dnncing around the- room in a telegraph office only forty miles from the seat of war. You will li3ar from him a3 soon as the wires are up. THEBE is a difference in the meaning of terms in Germany and America. In Kaiser Wilhelni's domain a Social Democrat is looked upon as a dangerous man, and omplly clapped into prison. In America a sooial Democrat is a man who asks you if you'll have yours straight, and is generally s.teemed a very pleasant fellow. THE Cretans have secured the good offices of the British government in their endeavor to obtain a reformed system-of government for the island, and are therefore hopeful that the abuses which they have BO long endured will be reformed. Johnny Bull appears to be potent in tho East, and can generally ac complish what he undertakes. SOME of the liepublican papers, notably the Chicago Times, profess their inability to understand where Gov. Hendricks stands on the issues of the day. We do not see what language could be more explicit than that employed by Gov. Hendricks. It is not hi9 duty to furnish brains to Republican editors in addition to furnishing ideas to the people at large. EE cell of Dr. Enrll, one of the rcost no torious of Chicago's abortionists, is con stantly brightened by the presence of many ''ladies of society." Earll has twice been convicted of murder by abortion, and is now incarcerated for a most fiendish crime cammitted for the same purpose. The "ladies" who cheer him with flowers and words of encouragement must indeed be an elegant set. THE Chicago distillers have been obliged to stop manufacturing highwines on account of the fact that Cincinnati distillers under sell them. They claim that highwinea are sold in open market in Cincinnati for four cents less per gallon than the cost of pro ductim with the government tax honestly and faithfully collected. If the Chicaguans want justice from this administration they must pack up and move to Ohio. THE Turkish press bureau wants the news pape to deny that there is any hostility be tween the Porte and the Sultan, or that the government secretly encourages resistance to the provisions of the treaty of Berlin. De nials under such circumstances, however, will not be apt to carry much weight, or to alter in any respect the fact that the insur gents in various parts of the late Turkish empire receive very substantial comfort from Constantinople. EUEOPEANS are fast learning American idVaa. It appears on investigation that a vessel purchased in the United States for 700,000 roubles for the Russian volunteer fleet, was not worth Lalf that amount, and the discovery was made that of 3,500,000 roubles subscribed to the volunteer fleet fund, more than one-half of the sum found its way into tho pockets of its organizers. Thus we see that even in the most despotic European governments the American plan of doing things is coming to the fore. TBB ear 1878 appears to be a phenomenal one on the turf. Only a few days ago Barns undertook and accomphshedthe extraordi nary feat of trotting a mile faster than Gold smith Maid's best time, reducing the record to 2:13j^. Now the pacing horse Sleepy George has succeeded in making a mile in 2:15, the fastest pacing time on record. The average time of the races trotted in the "grand circuit" has been greatly reduced, being for a total of nearly a hundred and fifty heats only a fraction over 2:20. Truly we live in a fast age and a fast country. BUCKS county, Pennsylvania, has set a per nicious example to the rest of the country, which merits the severest reprobation'. A magnificent new court house has just been completed at Doylestown which has cost less i'^0-w^Wi-^^^^^^TWM^^W' HALL. NO. 17, WABASHAW STREET. ST. PAUL. 3 mouths..4K.& 6 months.. 4.(10 12 months.. *.J TUB SlTNJiAY GJLOIiJS. THJS GLOBE will be furnished every day in the waok to city subscribers at 70 cents 'per month or $8.40 per year. By mail the SONDAT GLOBE will be one dollar per year in addition to the rate given above for mail abscriberc. THE WEEKLY GXOBK. The WEEKLY GLOBE is a mammoth sheet, exactly double the Bize of the Daily. 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The GLOBE offers no yearly space, but proposes to ttharge by the line for the Hpace occupied, and the charge for the last day wiU be the same as for the first, uo matter how many Insertions are made. Bates are fixed exceedingly low, and no charge IK mode for changes, nn it is preferable to have new matter every day if possible. his own power. mjimmii"l' itfommtQrtifm r^r than the sum appropriated for its construc tion, and it is even believed that the appro priation will be sufficient to oover the cost of furnishing and provide for other incidental expenses. This is so utterly at variance with the custom of people elsewhere that one is struck with astonishment. The only expla nation of such extraordinary conduct that we can find is the fact that Bucks county is Democratic, and entrusts her building af fairs to men who are so radically Bourbon that they never learn to adopt the customs of the times, and never forget the lessons of honesty and economy taught them in their youth. THE entire trouble about the Fort Snelling bridge contract is soon stated and easily un derstood. The commission made a mistake at the outset in employing a man to draw plans and specifications for the structure who is not an engineer. The contractors took his plans and specifications as a basis for their bids, and made their estimates ac cordingly. The commission, when the Con tract had been awarded, disco -/ered that the alleged engineer had not specified the quali ty or the size of the stone to be used in the abutments, nor had he defined the manneirin which the work should be constructed, and in order to guarantee to the public a safe and well constructed bridge, they sought to in sert provisions in the contract which in effect were amendments to the specifications and not taken into account by the contractors in making their estimates. These amendments were very properly ob jected to by the contractors, WJO are no doubt responsible men, unaccustomed to doing business in a slovenly manner. Had the specifications been properly drawn in the first place, there would have been no misun derstanding. The contractors would have fe known precisely what was expected of them, and would have given good and sufficient bonds to complete the work at the specified time in a workmanlike manner. They are not to blame for the blunders ot the man who drew up the specifications, and it is un just to censure them for refusing to do work which they .had no means of knowing would be required of them. THE DEMAGOGUE AND RUFFIAN. The present week has brought into promi- nence in American politics both a dema- gogue and a ruffian. The ruffian is the ac- tive principle the demagogue the hidden impelling cause. The former acts in obedi ence to the latter, stimulated by his own nat- ural instincts and the hope of attaining what all mob leaders covetpower over the masses. The latter, while no doubt despis- ing the ruffian and loathing the means to which he resorts to sway the mob element, applauds and encourages him for the sake of the opportunities the agitation affords of gratifying his own ambition and adding to Benjamin Butler is a marvel in many respects. Possessing many splendid natural abilities, he ia consumed by an overweening lust for power. gratify his ambition he does not scruple to avail himself of the most disreputable means. At times during the past fifteen years he has been a bitter, unre- lenting partisan, intolerant of all who dif- fered with him regardless of aught save the supremacy of his party. save it from threatened destruction he has defended the most odious legislation, apologized for and justified the most dishojaest practices. Again, a spasm of virtue seems to have come over him and he has denounced with unstinted invective corruption in high places and defended with all the eloquence of his nature the rights of the people as against the moneyed power. has defended political fraud, dallied with official prostitu- tion, espoused tho theory of military government, excused the most barefaced outrages upon Ihe vested rights of the com- munity, and been a firm advocate of the adoption of despotic means to govern a free people. Again he has been a fearless cham- pion of the rights of the people as against the military and money power, has been foremost in denouncing all shams and hypo crisy i political life, and regardless of par- tisan ties, has taken up the gauntlet for the people against the encroachments of a cen- tralized government. has been magnifi- cent in his inconsistency, apparently careless of consequences, a veritable Ishmaelite in Congress and on the stump, in private and in public life. has no fixed mor al or po- litical principles to guide his conduct. is a weathercock, turning hither and thither as the breezes blow, and always appearing to turn up on the winning side. Dennis Kearney is a new character in our polities, although not entirely novel in tho old world. is the outgrow th of a con dition of society abnormal in America. The gross mismanagement of our public affairs under the rule of the Republic an party has led to many and grievous abuses. The in terests of capital have been fostered by legis lation to the injury and debasement of labor to such an extent as to demand radical measures for relief. With perhaps in stinctive prescience Kearney discerned his opportunity, and leaving his horse and his dray he entered the political arena as a leader of the masses. Ruffianly by nature has sought and won suprema cy as the leader of a mob. exagger ated the wrongs of the workingmen, and magnified the dangers with which they are beset, and by denunciations of the pur poses of capitalists, business men and poli ticians he has inflamed the mob and awakened the animosities and prejudices of ma ny honest men wh are susceptible of influence, Without the intelligence, educa- tion or tact of Moliere, or Robespierre, or Hen ri Martin, he possesses much of their animal magnetism and their intuitive knowl- edge of human nature. adopts their methods, by endeavoring to awaken preju dice and inspire a spirit of revenge, the only legitimate result of which is mob violence depending upon the irresistible force of a mob to attract to his cause enough adher ents to sweep the couutry. He is brutal in his instincts, and relies upon brute force to work a moral revolution. We see to-day the extraordinary spectacle of these two men working together hand in gloveusing the same means but with a dif ferent purpose in view. Butler is a dema gogue of the most dangerous species, capa ble of employing the most despicable means to attain his ends. He sees in the spasmod ic uprising of the mob under Kearney an opportunity for him to walk into power through its influence. Underlying the mob are real grievances, real causes for dissatis faction. These he has espoused and added to them the abnormal and wholly indefen sible and unreasonable demands of the mobocrats. He hopes to com bine the two, and throngh them THE ST. **ts'$\lZlj2$6$iglt S PAI JL DAIL to obtain the governorship of Massa chusetts and ultimately the Presidency of the United States if the violence of the mob shall not be too soon exhausted. As for Kearney, such men as he are satisfied with wielding power. A ruffian is better satisfied with being able to sway a mob ox lead a party of bandits than he could be if the highest civic honors were thrust upon him. By his impetuosity, invective and inflamma tory appeals Kearney possesses an undenia ble power among the mob element, and his influence is to be feared and guarded against. But he is far less dangerous than his part ner, Butler. His power for harm ia circum scribedconfined to the influence he exerts over the ruffianly class of the community. Butler is more dangerous because he is less sincere because he courts the favor of work ingmen and mobocrats only to gratify his own selfish purposes, not to remedy their wrongs because by his experience in public affairs, intellectual gifts, and knowledge of government he is capable of muoh more mischief than his illiterate, uncouth, black guard ally. It would be a sad day for America, for the wotkingmen and for the world which would witness the triumph of these men. It would mark an era of disorganization which it would require years of good government to repair. It would be the beginning' of an era of tearing downof the overthrow of all that is good and beneficial in our politi cal and social system. Bat we have too much confidence in the good sense of the American people to entertain a fear but that the present seeming dominance of dangerous and designing men in our politics is but a spasmodic reaction from the opposite ex treme, and feel sure that they will disappear from sight almost as suddenly as they ap pearedthat the present is but a mushioom growth which will die out as soon as the cor ruption which caused it has been removed. THE dead lock in the Board of Education has raised the question relative to the neces- sity of having a Superintendent. I appears to us that the simplest and best way out of the dead lock wouid be to abolish the office of Superintendent altogether. The principals of the various buildings ought to be able to superintend the schools of the minor grades in their charge as well as their own, and with a competent Superintendent in each building, a Superintendent to superintend the Superintendents seems a work of super erogation. Let the Board of Education abol ish the Superintendent's office altogether, or if that is not practical, leave it vacant. MINNESOTA NEWS. good Hail insurance companies have many losses to adjust this season. The pontoon bridge at New Ulm is com pleted and open for travel, and teams are crossing and recrossing. Charles Pomeroy, of Lac qui Parle* had a ho. se fall into a shallow well the other day, causing the death of the animal. Over 200 panes of glass were broken out of Thompson, Smith & Co.'s Cannon Falls mill by the hail storm of last week. A drive of logs, the last of the season, has just reached Sauk Rapids, containing 10,- 000,000 feet. Forty men are employed upon it. The Wabashaw Manufacturing company are turning out platform cars and hand cars in considerable numbers, and with great rapidity. It seems that harvesting machines could not be manufactured in sufficient numbers to meet the demands of the increased grain acreage in the West., The county commissioners of Wabashaw county have decided to build a new county infirmary building of brick, the present building being wholly inadequate for the comfort and health of the inmates. There is a difference of opinion among thr farmers of the State as to the "Lost Nation" wheat, some regarding it good and valuable for seed, others condemning it entirely. The last named seem to be in the majority. The local papers are already chronicling a great slaughter of prairie chickens. The humane, law-abiding "sportsman" can't wait for August 15 before commencing the work of death and destruction among the innocent feathered tribe. In the town of Nininger, Dakota county, the team of Henry Troag became frightened, as he stood unhitching it from a harvester. He was knocked down and the machine passed over him, luckily and singularly with no other damage than a cut in one arm and leg and the amputation of a toeA narrow escape from fatal injury. Joseph Knowles, a young man aged 19 years, residing in Farmington, Dakota county, a few evenings since attempted to commit suicide by taking laudanum. He was discovered in a deep sleep, but by the aid of a physician, was saved. The cause of this assinine folly is not known. Farmington Press: A specimen tramp came here the other day. and begged for food and money. Mr. Dsvitt offered him $4 a day to work on Sunday in saving grain. The tramp would "be dd if he would work for less than $5." After a kicking by the constable the tramp left town. Mrs. M. C. Russell, wife of the editor of the Lake City Lender, is dead. She leaves a family of six children, several of them of tender age. She was a most excellent and honorable woman, and the deeply afflicted and bereaved family have the enderest sympathy of the entire community. William Hope, aged 60 years, died Aug. 1, of Bright's disease of the kidneys, athis residence in Trout Brook Valley, Wabashaw county. He had resided in that region thirty years, and was one of the oldest and most respected of its citizens, ever maintained a high character for probity, and endeared himself to all who knew him. There was a narrowly escaped collision the other day on the & St R. between a passenger and a wood train. Several jumped from each train. Martin Hall, in jumpi negSfromo the wood train, fell with his ri aer the rail, and his leg was crushed above the ankle. His leg was am putated half way between the knee and ankle. Sauk Rapids Sentinel-. We are informed that prairie chickens are abundant in this county this year, and it is intimated that the game law in regard to the killing of the same is being violated. This law is violated more or less every year, and it should either be modified so that it can be enforced, or if this can not be done, let it be wiped from the statute book. A law that can not be en forced is worse than no law at all, A Dime Novel Flot. A report has been received at the Indian office from Peter Ronan, Indian agent at the Flathead agency, M. T., which gives an in teresting account of the recovery by "Cap tain George," a friendly Nez Perce, of his daughter, who was stolen from him by some miserable white men. "Captain George had been useful to the whites as an interpre ter, and was aided by them to get his daugh ter from Sitting Bull's camp. He returned with her as far as Carroll and was there at tacked and left for dead by some wretches, who carried off his daughter. After his re covery he searched throngh the country for his child, with his' wounds unhealed, in con stant danger from whites, who were liable to mistake him for a hostile, and was finally successful in his search. & pif4^s^*vjL^5'jS.'V i!^^**J GLOBE, FK1DAY MORNING, AUGUST 9," 187a BLAINE OS THE FINANCES. What He,Bays About Greenback* and the -JlS--'-*? &r*enbackers. Following is the full te xt of Senator Blaine's remarks at the rece nt Maine con vention: The people of Maine are distinguished, think, for two characteristics one isj a high sense of honor, and the other is strong com mon sense. [Applause.] They do not pr o pose with a high sense of honor to repudiate any obligations. They do not believe, with their strong common sense,, that stamping a piece of paper creates value* An they re member a lesson which can never be forgot ten, a single incident which covers in its scope and its meaning the entire greenback discussion. When I had the honor to enter Congress from an adjoining district, their were $150,000,000 of legal-tenders in the country, and they were worth 147,000,000 in go ld dollars. I staid there myself, voting for legal-tender bills until we had $450,000,- 000 of legal-tender and they were worth $145,000,000 infold. W bad three times as many paper dollars, and the aggregate was worth $2,000,0 00 less than when we began, and if we had doubled the amount they would not have been worth anvthing at all. I do not however, with ail due respect to my honored, valued, and eloquent friend, have the slightest apprehension of the re pudiation of the greenback dollars of this country, not the slightest. I beg to say dis tinctly that there is nothing in the situation to-day. If he will pardon me for differing from him, to create an apprehension, with sound common sense governing us, that we are to travel the road with the national legal-tender note, that was traveled by the continental currency of the revolution. Our forefathers issued $241,000,000 of legal tender paper, and they did not have over $550,000,000 of property in the entire thir teen colonies. [Applause-.] put us on the same perilous edge we would have to put out $6,000,000,000 of legal-tender paper before we got to the point they reached. Suppose the continental currency had only reached the aggregate of $30,000,000, is there a man here who believes that with the victory and peace of 178 3 there would have been a solitary dollar left? There would not have been a dollar of it left behind. S that while I agree, and I am sure that the great mass of the people of Mai ne agree, that an enlarged and inflated issue of paper money in time of peace is not only unconstitutional but is wild and visionai-y, and would end in the destruction of the whole mass, I do not believe that with a property running up to $50,000,000,000 this day, the Unit ed States are in the slightest danger of repudiating a solitary penny of the $341,000,0 00 that is stamped upon their honor. Mr. BarkerSuppo se they inflate? Mr. BlaineAh! says the chairman, sup pose they inflate. That reminds me that when we had reached the point in 1864 of $400,000,000 legal tenders in circulation and $50,000,000 of reserve, and the danger of rapid depreciation was such that we were on the road toward the continental result of the revolution, the Congress of the Unit ed States speaking for you and in your name, speak ing to its creditors of both continents and all nations, said, and put oh your statute book, that the amount of legal-tender notes issued and to be issued should never exceed $400,000,000, and I charge the greenback agitator not only with standing on an absui and visionary theory, not only with flying in the face of the experience of all nations in all centuries, but I charge him with a still more serious and still more flagitious course of action. I charge him with inviting you and me to violate a solemn and repeated and emphatic pledge giveu by this nation in articulo mortis, as we then feared, given with as sacrid a will as the man who in drowning, to save himself from destruction beneath the waves, should say, "Save me and I will keep this pledge." The United States, in its hour of peril, .said to the whole world, we want your treas ure, we are in a struggle for nationality, and existence we will give you our bonds, and we pledge you on the honor of this great nation, speaking with unanimity through both branches of Congress, all parties and all sections, we pledge you we will so entirely protect the currency in which our obligations shall be paid, that we will never permit the amount of legal-tender currency to be issued to exceed $400,000,000. I charge the green back agitator, standing safe on the soil of the country ,*beneath his flag, saved by an hon orable pledge, that he to-day asks you and me to join with him in violating that pledge. Robert MartinWe shan't do it. Mr. BlaineThe paople of .Maine wiil never do itnever, never, never. MIXED WHEAT. Xiic Illihoi* Board of Warehouse Com missioners Refuse to JUake the Wheat Jitlls any Trouble by Leyitinintiziito the Delivery of Superior Wheat Where In ferior Has Itevn Contracted For. [Springfield Special to Chicago Tribune, The board of railroad and warehouse com missioners held a prolonged session to-day and evening. I addition to allowing the inspection-department roll for July, amount ing to $6,247.89, the board acted on a pr o test against the change of the rule in relation to mixed wheat. They also considered let ters and dispatches favoiing tha change, and finally adopted the following resolu tions: WHEHEAS,- The rule requiring a mixture of spring and winter wheat when inspected to be called spring wheat, and graded according to the quality thereof, was originally established with a view to discourage, and, as far as prac ticable, prevent the mixing of these varieties in store and WHEREAS, Owing to the unusual and artificial condition of the market for No. 2 spring wheat recently existing in the city of Chicago, and liable to recur at any time, it is evident that said rule has failed to accomplish the object fox which it was established therefore be it Jtesolved, That the seventh clause of rule 2, relating to the mixture of spring and winter wheat, be and the same is hereby modified in its application as follows: AU wheat presented for inspection in which the "mixture of spring and winter wheat 6hall, in the judgment qjt the inspector, be sufficient to materially affect the value of such lot of grain for milling pur poses as a single variety of winter or spring wheat, shall be inspected mixed spring and winter wheat, and graded according to the quality thereof, as in other cases, and shall not be stored in any warehouse except in special bins, or mixed with grain of the same character or grade the above rule to take effect Oct. 1. Argyll's Estate. The Duke of Argyll, starting in life with a very heavily encumbered estate, learnt to look upon himself, and made others regard him as a very poor man for his poition. But he is no longer. ibit made economy a'second nature to him, and h hah gone on practising it nutil he has cleared off hundreds of thousands of debt and has a very large income. has no house actually in London, but lives very quiet ly at a comfortable suburban villa at Kensing ton, and for several years past the declining health of his wife has restricted his society chiefly to a circle of relations and intimate friends. has a large family, but the sons are provided for. Lord Archibald is a partner in Coutt's Lord Waiter, who passed some years here, is a partner in a leading firm of stock brokers, and married to a lady of means, and Lord George is in the navy, and wrote a very acceptable book on the cruise of the Challeng er. The eldest daughter is married to the eld est son of the millionaire Duke of Northum berland. Lord Lome has no children, and his Princess Marchioness is simply provided for by parliament. "t'JV X^T & ldph A High Honor. ^v*^*-" [Baltimore Gazette.] The press of this country is loose and licen tious, but both Kearney and Ben. Butler testify that it never did anything for them. This en ables the press to pull up its shirt collar and look respectable. ATTnTTQT 1Q7Q MINNEAPOLIS NEWS Specially Reported for the JDaily Globe MINNEAPOLIS GLOBELETS. Wheat receipts 1,200 bushels. Flour shipments 1,200 barrels. Wheat unchanged bOc to $1.00, according to grade. The Northern Pacific wanderers returned to their home yesterday evermg. Supt. Hatch of the Minneapolis & St. Louis railway left for Chicago yesterday. 8. R.XUapp, of the Tuff, Field and Farm, is in the city, and comfortably quartered at the Nicollet A little child of Dr. Goodwin died yesterday, The doctor was absent in Boston and the sad hews was telegraphed him The Excelsior mail will hereafter go out daily via the Pajific railway to Wayzata and across the lake by steamer. H. P. Bobie, editor of the Rush City Post, was in the city yesterday evening, viewing the sights and shaking hands with friends. Why don't the board of trade take up the tax question? Let's have it fully discussed and the responsibility settled where it belongs* One hundred and twenty-eight tuurists and traveling men at the Nicollet yesterday. And Mr. Gilsoa disposed of th em all comfortably loo. The Gethsemane organ, a Minneapolis manu facture, is to be used in a grand organ concert to be given at the Academy of Music in a few days. The twelfth street railway line has been taken up as far as Nicollet. Saturday it is ex pected that the entire line will be up to Hen nepin eveuue. H. Hi Porter, vice president of the Chicago & Northwestern railway, arrived by the West Wisconsin route last evening and located at the ISicoiiet iiuuse. Judge Wea, of the probate court, while the thermometer ranges above the nineties, proba bly wishes that the Emerson will case could be couvtit eu into the i^merson want case. A little boy was tun ad about 7:30 P.M. by officer Daily, cryiug piteously, near the suspeu siou bridge. Tne officer fouud ttiat bis name was Jounaou, and restored him to his friends. Frank McDonald says it's a vicious slander. No candidate for office has been buying any kind of tax titles for '7b or any other year, lie suys tne ULO BE was misiuformed. We lake all back. The mill of Leavitt, Chase & Co., ou the East Side, took lire Wednesday, and it was only by the utmost exertion that a disastrous confla gration was averted. As it is the mill is com pelled to lay up for repairs for two or three Uajs. According to Mr. J. W. Day's statement Gen. W. D. Washburn denies that he is ia full sympathy with Mr. Secretary Sehurz, piae land policy. The general says, on the contrary he 13 utterly anu absolutely opposed to that pol icy. Hovv can the^e things ue thus? Jim Stoddard begs off. He protests that he is not now, has not beeu this year, and does not propose being a candidate for sheriff. All tight Jameswe'll take your word for. it. Tuere is one gentleman's hash settled without the necessity of calling a convention. Aid. Corser, president of the council, lights into Mr. John Laittre in a telling commu nication to the Tribune yesterday. shows that there are two sides to the tax howl, and tfives a good deal of the true inwardness of the buncombe outcry which is being made by a few malcontents. It now seems to be definitely settled that the great Forepaugh has determined to put in the entire week between Minneapolis and St. Paul, duiing the progress of the two fairs. This will |^e an auditional attraction for peopla from a distance, and will help to "drw.'' The days at each city have not yet been an nounced. Col. Slayback, of St. Louis, who came up with the excursion three weeks ago, returned on Wednesday, after a pleasant season at Min netonka. At first the colonel was not a success in piscatorial pursuits, but truth compels the admission that he developed capacities in that line that made him the envy of all the lake visitors at that pleasant resort. May his shadow never grow less, and may he come early next year and stay long. Won't somebody kill the indecent exposure reporters of the Tribune and Pioneer Press? The Globe. The GLO BE man seems to feel bad about it. 'Praps he's the feller.'Tribune. Yes he's the "feller" that is thoroughly dis gusted with reportorial indecenciesglowing accounts of he lewd doings of every vicious brute in the city. Personal exposure is a mat ter for the police, not for reportorial sensa tions, THE COURTS. Probate Court. [Before Judge Rea. In the matter of the estate of Wm. Chambers, deceased, an order was made allowing tho final account of Gideon H. Pond, late administra tor, which was paid by the administrator of Mr. Pond. In the matter of the estate of James A. Len on, a petition was made to renew the admis sion to heir claims in order to hear a claim pre ferred by Sarah W. Libby. The petition was denied. A petition was filed for the appointment of a commission on insanity to examine the mental condition/^ Peter Paulson, of this city. municipal Court. [Before Judge Cooley.] Robert Austin was arraigned before Judge Cooley for a drunk. was advised and de parted. Chris Davidson was fined 5 and costs for the same sort of an offense, which he paid. Two unfortunate prostitutes paid 12.50 each, half of which goes to the Prostitutes' home and the other half to raise the burden from the tax-payers' shoulders. Charles H. Wil'ocr and Mary Harris were sent to the Reform school for incorrigibilty. A FIRE. Destruction of the Hose Factory of C. Von Trotha & Co.$10,000 Disappears in Smokebniall Insurance. About 3 o'clock p. M. yesterday a vigorous alarm of fire announced that a conflagration of some importance was in progress, and the GLO BE man responded to the alarm with all the promptness of a trained fireman. The fire proved to be in the box factory of Claude Vou Trotha & Co., located on River street, between Fourth and Fifth avenue north. Tne coiitUgration originated in the shavings room, and when first discovered had got beyond the control of any local appli incesat nand. Tne fiiot alarm was given by au engine crossing tno tue bridge of the St. .taut & Pacific railway, and this was the first notification to the em ployes of the lactory. The tire alarm was at once pulled, and in a very few seconds the firemen were ou hand, but so rapid was the progress of the flames that the entire building was a mass of fire before the first stream was turned on. The weather was excessively warm, the ther mometer ranging about 94 degrees in the shade at the time of the fixe, and then the conflagration, feeding upon dxy pine lumber and Bilavings was intensely hot, making it al most impossible for the firemen to approach within striking distance. But they did nobly, and by their exertions succeeded in saving"a large amount of property in the immediate vi cinity, notably the Pacific railway bridge. The institution was owned by various "par ties, the largest proprietor being Claude Von Trotha, who had invested, according to Jiis own statement, over $8,uuu. This will be a total loss, as he informed the GLO BE representative that he had not a cent of insurance. I connection with the box factory was a Bash, door and blind fac tory, owned by C. A. Pillsbury andS. 8. Small. Mx. Small stated that the loss would not be far from $2.5uU with an insurance of $1,000 in a company represented by Christian & Co. Mure L,ight. The truth of history compels the GLOBE to announce that at 11 o'clock ou Wednesday nightthe hour when, the council adjourned ifS&i^iMilS W$U &&*S yV the only gas lights burning, according to con tract with the city of Jfinneapolis, were those the Globe Gas Light company. The business heart of the city was in total darkness, the moon being obscured totally by clouds. The GLO BE would in the most gentle and tender manner ask of Aid. Barrows, chairman of the gas coin mil tee, what had become of his hired man to whom the city is payiu 65 per month to rectify this matter? If the public are content to go without light wheu they pay for it, that is all right, but the GLO BE will not fail to call attention to the fact. TAXES. I The Customary 'and Annual HowlThe City Gointj to the Demit it ion Sowoics" Too Many SchoolsToo Many Jwi^rore- mentsThe Hosli of Tealy Economists. To the average citizen the terrible breeze on taxation raised by the Pioneer Press and Hon John Laittre is simply the least bit amus ing. When the great Minneapolis capitalists begin to list their property at something near half its cash valuation the rate will sink to the requisite 2 per cent., or even lower, prob ably. First, the city is represented in the legislature by wealthy men, who secure the passage of laws forbidding the cchool board, the city council and everybody else from issuing bonds for the construction of needed improvements. The taxes must be levied to build the suspension bridge, the stone arch bridge and all the school houses demanded by our rapidly augmenting population. It is wrong, argue these states men, to put on the next generation a portion of the burdens of these great works. Wc must buiid that they may enjoy without expense. Well, this thing goes on until the taxes begin to pile up, and then a howl is raised against the agents of the people (the school board, the city council and the county boardj as if, forsooth, they were responsible for all this expenseas if they id pocketed this money outright. The simple truth is that Minneapolis is growing with incalculable rapidity. Two years ago when the joint St. Paul and Minneapolis directory was published, it showed an appioximatiou in population to 40,0UU souls. Our new directory, to be published next week, will show a population not under 5U,u(J0. This means that streets must be graded, school houses built, bridges constructed, and all of the other local works, which go to make up a civilized community, constructed. And these statesmen of the Pettit-Giltillan Pillsbury guild, failing to un derstand the law of manif ht destiny must put their legislative foot ou the proposal to boud the city, and in the hardest of hard times com pel a tax-ridden people to "pay as they go" for all these necessities or else do without thum. The GLO BE asserts that the school board, and the city council, and the county board are do inx simply their duty, and are managing tho iu terests of the city and county with all the economy possible. It is so ^easy to howl "ex- travagance" and "dishonesty'' against men who work for nothing and board themselves. There are yet other public improvements which are needed, and must come, unless Minneapolis is prepared to take a second rate position anlong the cities of the West We have not yet enough school houses and bridges, while in numberless places stagnant pools and ponds, bringing disease and death to old and youug, pro claim that street grading must not cease. More than that, sewers must be built, water mains laid, and before many mouths a I system of street paving inaugurated. Taxa I tion has just fairly commenced iu Minneapolis, and the fogy statesmen who have run tho thing this lax, must be compelled to take a back seat, or the wheels of progress will be thrown out of Bear. aval tho bats and owls begin to flap their wings joyfully in the prospect of making their homes in our mills, warehouses and store room*. If Mr. Da Laittre and his guild don't want to pay three per cent, taxes there are two ways to avoid it without crippling the growth of the city. First let them list their property at one hundred instead of fifty per cent. of its valuation, as the poorer classes do, and the rate will not exceed One and a half per cent. or secondly, lot the city debt be increased to a million and a half or even two millions by the issuance of thirty year bonds, so that Tiie next generation may pay their proportion of the burdens. But above all, let this insane tax howling cease. It will cease when men look two inches beyond their nose and realize the destiny that awaits our city as written in the book of fate. Another view of the case. It is noticeably unfair to lay the blame of the over taxation of 1878 (if there is over taxation) upon the coun cil, the school board a:id the county board ot" this year. The evil (if there is evil) simply culminates this yearthe foundation was laid when the legislative delegation in 1875 refused to allow the issuance ot bonds to complete the suspension bridge, and this brings us to say that Mr. Jrkn De Laittre and his relative and partner, W. W. Eastman, are by all odds the largest gainers by the heavy expenditures in the construction of the suspension and stone arch bridges. Their i.-.land properly has been dou-led in value by the buildidg ot these bridges. Does it not come with bad grace from Mr. De Laittre to begin tax howling when for three years the tuxes of the entire community have been poured out to enrich him and his relatives? Please, sir, may not some other portions of the city gfet a little advantage from public tax ation now without incurring your royal dis pleasure By all means let a public meeting be called, but when it meets let the entire taxation ques tion be ventilated. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. Adjourned Meet ini Committee on Church TaxationFurnishing the Foor House. The board of county commissioners held an adjourned session yesterday. But little busi ness of public importance was transacted. The following was submitted by the commit tee on taxes: To the Board of Equalization: Your committee beg leave to make a final re port on the application of the Rev. Dr. Kuick erbacker, and others, on church proherty. The courts ot this Btate have decided against the abatement of taxes on parsonages, even when standing on the same lot or lots, as in a recent case of Bishop Grace, of tit. Paul also, the State auditor will not sanction or ap prove of abatements that include more than the ground that the church stands upon. (See his instructions to our county auditor.) In the application of All Saints chapel we recommend the abatement, and the refunding, if any, of taxes paid since 1871. Wc find S12.&S assessed for the year 1877, against the lot the church stands upon, which is exempt by law. We find Gethsemane church occupies the front of lot 10, block Ul, and the rear of said lot IB occupied by the parsonage, and under the law must be assessed for taxation the lot occunied by the chapel, lot 1, block 134, and all other lots named in baid petition are subject to assessment aud taxation as seen by the ruling of the court. In the application for St. Andrews church in lot 1, block 17, North Minneapolis, your com mittee recommend the abatement of lb74 taxes on said lot. Your committee in closing this report wish it to be known they have no desire to be il liberal towards these institutions our oaths and the statutes of the State govern all our prejudices. All of which is respectfully submitted. E. HEDDEBL V, Chairman of Committee. The report was adopted. Commissioner Glenn offered the following: Ustolved, That the sum of 5,500 be and the same is hereby appropriated for the comple tion and furnishing of the new house now being erected on the poor farm. It was adopted. A batch of claims were ordered paid. :.--\S:- liurdette. \:J'y. /The GLO BE allows Mr. Kobert Burdette to de scribe his own lecture. docs it in the fol lowing inimitable manner in a letter to Mana ger Gale: DE AR MB. GALE: I reply to your note of even date, demanding an immediate exposure of the subject of my alleged lecture, I have the honor to say that I have remodeled the '".Rise and Fall of the Mustache" to suit th climate and the season's business. The hull timbers are entirely new and the after guard has been painted red I have put Brussells carpet on the quarter deck, and set blue glass in the cabin windows. The 'scape pipes have been set a lit tle aft, and on her trial trip she behaved beau tifully wasn't a hot box anywhere and she never dropped her exhaust but once. I am go ing to gild the dome with a little white lamp black and theii it will be ready for the brick layers. People who have seen and examined this lecture say they never saw anything else like it. They didn't like it themselves, even. James Anderson writes that it iB all he can do Sii^ttfe^i"4 i 5ffj^^*%'fJVV ^C^ to believe some portions of it, and Mrs. Jenkn, in a moment of impetuous confidence, admit ted to a friend that she believed it was the original Sherman letter. An eminent clergy man of Chicago, who took a small dose of it, was charmed with its eloquence, and says that om of tne finer passages sound like a. base drum. A bauk president who bought a piece of it to try. last evening, saidbut 1 digress. Yours, ROOT. J. BUBDETTE. Nicollet House, Aug. 8. Our GLO BE sights haven't been brought to bear on Kobert as yet, but bis epistolary effort* pan out remarkably well. State Turn jest. Thirty-five or forty of our German citizens left on the 4:10 train yesterday afternoon over the Minneapolis & St. Louis railwiy to attend the State turnfest at Waseca. More will go to day or to-morrow, but by far the largest num ber from this city and"St. Paul will leave by the same route Sunday morning and return Sunday evening. The train, which is a special, will leave the St. Paul & Pacific depot at 7:80 A. M. on Sunday, arriving at Waseca about 10 o'clock. The return train will leave Waseca at 8 o'clock, and arrive in this city at 10:80 P. at. The little village of Waseca will be full of music next Sunday. PERSONAL. Mr. R. W. Lewis, president St. Louis, Kan sas City & Northern railway, and family, with other guests, will arrive in Minneapolis from St. Louis this morning, by special car, via the great through line of the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Central, of Iowa, and the above named road. Mr. Lewis and party will stop at the Nicollet house for a few days, and look over the business interests of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and also take in some of the lake resorts of Minnesota. For Sale. 160 acres of land, prairie and timber, in Becker countv, two miles irom Detroit, ou Northern Pacific railroad. Address, M. H. GEEKY, Cor. Tiiird ave. south and Fourth St., Minneapolis, Minn. NOTICE. The Committee appointed by the BOARD O EQUALIZATION for Hennepin county, will meet daily at tho Auditor's Oihce, Minneapolis, DNTIL SATURDAY, AUGUST 10th. to receive applications for reductions of valua tions. Said applications must be reduced to writing and properly verified by the applicant. The Board adjourns August 10th, sine d!e. All persons neglecting this opportunity will havo to apply to the Courts. So take notice and gov ern yourselves accordingly. K. HEDDEULY, Chairman of Committo*. The Vcrtlens Ham/ Is the best advertiwing medium iu tno Scandinavian language in the aortawe.-'t. kinds of Scandina vian job printing cheap. Office, 24 Uridine square. CHI STROM & COUILLABD, Attorneys at Law. Collections a Specialty. Oiflco Xo. 32 Wash. Ave. S., Minneapolis, lllnn. Wanted. A girl for general hcuswvrk. No. 1,000 First avenue north. Apply hi poraou at WISCONSIN NKWS. Fever and ague prevail to some csteot in Milwaukee. Waukesha is crowded with visitorsthe Be thesda springs are proving more attractive thau ever. It is given out that a certain Milwaukee poli tician will stump the State of Massachusetts for Ben Butler for Governor. A man too drunk to tukeonre of himself was picked up iu the streets ot' Milwaukee and taken to the police station. Over 500 in money was found on his person. Mary Kirchhahn and Emma Gezer, two Mil waukee (northwestern portion of the city) street walkers, have been consigned to the house of correction on conviction of vu *ran cy. Marrying and giving in marriage is very prevalent in Oconomowos. They aro very happy in that "neck of woods," though tho prospect is that marriageable young J-uiies will lie scarce there next winter. Mrs. Chas. H. NicboK of Onalaska. In Crosse.county, was severelv, perhaps fatally injured theothor day by being thrown from a buggy. HtT horRe took fright and fun away, Hhe was taken up in an insensible condition, her collar bine broken, and otherwise in jured, and blood gushing from her ears. It is now almost certain, says the Milwaukee Sentinel, that the wife of Frauds J-neph Mechler, of whose disappearance mention has already been made, has eloped with a former lover and gone East. Her maiden name was Mary A Giezerich, anil it is naid that Francis Joseph Mechler was obliged to many her on threats of legal proceedings for seduction. She took her child with her, and the home of her husband, at 457 Fifteenth street, i3 conse quently a lonely one. a Crosse Jlifmbliain and Leader, May 7: Last evening a drunken man named James Dimon attracted a good deal of attention on Front Street by hin loud talk, but as no officer was near he was not arrested. Soon he began to amuse himself by insulting every woman who passed, and then some gentleman sent a hoy for a policeman. Dave Littlejohn then arrived or. the scene, and arrested tho beast, who refused to bo taken without ,i fight, and proceeded to strike, kick and bite. After pounding the man a little and getting nssist anee, tho ollicer was enabled to put him in jail. Milwaukee Smtmi'., Ang. 7: There is con sternation in a Sixth street home, eaused by the elopement of Lizzie Bed get. a bright young mulatto miss 17 years of age, wi a dashing young barber from Portage City. The pair have been playing sweet on -sich other for nearly two years, when the girl's mother for bade the young lover the house. Love grins at obstacles, some one alleges, however, and la6t Thursday the young barber, with his sister, ar rived in the city and registered at the Plank inton House. In the ever.ing he was seen lurking in the vicinity of his inamorata's dom icile, and subsequently she stole from the house dressed in her best bib and tucker. Since that time nothing has been heard of them, save the intelligence from a hackman who claims to have taken a party answerir gto the description to the Chicago bound train. The parent was mad all over, and has placed the photograph ot her truant daughter iu the hands of Chief of Police Kennedv. who will ree what he can see. WITH A IJULLKT JN HIS HEAD. Capt. Otto Alive Ttvriity-foiir Days After He Tried to Kill Himself. [Nev/ York Sun.) Capt. John Otto, one of the trustees of the Tentonia Savings' bank, tried to kill himself ou the morning of the llth ult. was des pondent, it was said, owing to the trouble and charges growing out of the dosing of the Teu tonia bank. shot himself in the head. Tho next day it was reported that he was dying, and, in fact, the chances of hi3 recovery were considered to be very slight by his family and his friends. Tw chambers of the revolver having been found empty, it was surmised that he had disoharjjed two of the cartridges, but no balls could be found, and there was only a wound in the left eye. Capt. Otto is still alive, and ia apparently DO nearer death than when he shot himself twenty-four days ago. The ball is somewhere under the upper part of the skull, and very near the brain. His case is an extraordinary one, and a yet his physicians can say very little about him ex cept as to his actual condition each day. has been delirious moBt of the time, and at the first he was frequently very violent. Of late be has become quieter, but his rational periods do not increase in frequency or duration. Physically he is in a remarkable condition. takes a fairamountof nourishment each day. and re tains considerable of bis, strength. Hi^pnlse is generally high, ranging about 101 to 102. yet without the presence of any well-defined fever. Will he regain his former physical health, yet remain mentally almost in his present condi tion the rest of his life? is a question that his friends have asked. The possession of a good constitution and the care that he has taken of himself weigh in his favor at the present time. The wound made by the ball has healed, the ball not having been removed. It presence may keep the brain in a perpetual abnormal condition. He will lose the use of the eye through which the ball passed. When rational he talks very little. The California Mining company declares a dividend of $1. The consolidated Virginia passes, 1