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3>ailp H (RlabE. OfllciHl Paper of the City & County- Printed and Published Every Pay in the Year BY H. P. HALL, NO. 17 WAIUBH A.W STREET, ST. PAUL. IViiii- of Subscription for the Dally Globe. By carrier (7 papers per week) 70 cents per mouth. By mail (without Sunday edition), 0 papers per week, 00 cents per month. Dv mad (with Sunday edition), 7 papers per week, 70 cents per month. ST. PAIL, MONDAY,- .TAX. !'., 1881. The t.lobo for the Members of the Legisla ture. : Members of the legislature can have the Globe delivered at their hotels or boarding houses by leaving word at the counting room. _^^_______ Chicago is going to move her board of trade several blocks south of its present location. The antics of the bulls and bears have become too lively to be appre ciated in the heart of the business district, where their chamber is now located. The boys on "change need more elbow room. FiBE is no respecter of persons. A few weeks ago Jay Gould's conservatory, one of the finest in the world, was destroyed, and now the summer residence of James R. Keene, another of the money mag nates, has been burned. ' Although the loss was heavy in both cases the parties are not yet bankrupt. BEECHEB believes that a belief in eter nal punishment is not essential to good Fellowship in the Congregational church. As Beecher and his church are not recog nized as belonging to that denomination, his assumption of the right to decide upon matters of belief for the sect may be regarded as slightly impertinent. A< < oKiMXfi to the census the United States can boast of a population of f>o, -152,559. This is a very creditable show ing, but not quite equal to expectations. The emigration has been unusually large during the past five years, amounting in the aggregate to nearly three millions of people. Another decade, however, will probably swell our population to at least seventy-five millions. Gaixsha A. Gkow claims that he lias already -secured the pledges of a major ity of the members of the Pennsylvania legislature to vote for him for United States Senator. His competitor Oliver, however, is rich, and heretofore Penn sylvania legislators have not been re-' markable for their incorruptiblity, es pecially when the Camerons have had a linger in the pic. Tin; people of Minnesota will extend their heartfelt sympathies to Aleck Ram sey over his deprivation of the honors and emoluments of the office of secretary of the navy. True, he is still secretaiy of war, but what is that to a man so gen erously endowed with the capacity of ollicc-holding. You might as well set a single sprat before a man hungering for a square meal as seek to satisfy Ramsey with a single office. ToSBE seems ro be little doubt that Fletcher will secure the speakership. The Ramsey men arc claiming that the Senatorial matter does not have anything to do with the speakership. If A. C. Dunn or J. V. Daniels were likely to suc ceed the air would be full of bloviation lor the success of the Ramsey crowd. As it is the goody-goody Mike 3lillan men arc Irving to make out that the success of the wicked Fletcher is a victory for them. If Gen. .leiinison had been here yester day and put in a little Sabbath school work he could have secured the secre taryship of the Senate almost without Op position. Even vet hisc nances are favor able but other candidates are making efforts for the prize. Capl. Henry A. Castle, F. E. Snow, A. A. Harwood. Mr. Jewell and others are in the field and Gen. Jennison has lost his walk over by his absence. Tin; new capitol building at Albany, New York, is literally tottering to its fall. It was built only a few years ago at a cost lo the State of ovcrsix millions of dollars The foundations, however, were laid in a quicksand, and the walls have been grad ually sinking for a year past, uutil they have become absolutely dangerous to human life. The people of the State are solicitous about the probable loss of the immense structure, hut if it is bound to fall they hope it may fall when the legis lature is iv session. Tin; Whit taker court martial, as form ed by Mr. Hayes by advice of Gen. How ard, is wholly ex parte. It is composed, with one exception — Gen. Miles — of men who entertain Howard's views of the social eqaltty of the negro with the white man. One thing is certain, however: If l be court acquits Whittaker in the face of the overwhelming evidence of his guilt, tbe usefulness of West Point will be at an end. It is foolish to*attempt to force un natural associates into the social life of any man or set of m&n. THE tiltKlO-TIHKISH QVABMXL. The news from Athens portends an rarh if not an immediate resort to the ar bitrament of war between Greece and Turkey for the settlement of the much debated question of the rectification of the Greek frontier. Ever since the IJcrlin treaty was ratified, by the terms of which ' Turkey was dissected ami portions of the empire distributed among the parties to the conference. Greece has been impor tuning the porte and the powers for a fid- \ rillment of the treaty of Berlin. Turkey temporized and asked for time. One i proposition after another was suggested, but air alike were rejected by Greece, which demanded the pound of flesh which ! the ministers thought the bond entitled ; the nation to claim. Then the powers] proposed to submit the question to arbi- j t• at ion under certain conditions. These conditions Were rejected by Turkey.! and another plan was proposed by the i pi#tc, which was finally agreed upon la the powers as just to both parties. This ; arbitration has just been rejected by Greece, and the last hope of a peaceful solution of the question hasj been aban doned. Both Turkey and Greece are ac tively preparing for war, which is now deemed inevitable. There is a great deal of misconception in the public mind as te the merits of this controversy. The only paragraph in the treaty of Berlin that refers even re motely to the Greek frontier is the fol lowing: Akt. 56. — In ease the agreement relative to a rectification of frontier provided byjxotoco] 13, between the suWime j>orte and the King dom of Greece , should not be realized, the powers declare themselves ready to otter their good Services to the two powers, Ottoman and Greek. Protocol ]", to which reference is made in the above article, suggests a rectifica tion of the Greek boundary by the cession to her of so much of her ancient possessions as lies south of a line nearly due west from the head of the Gulf of Salonica, which would .embrace nearly the whole of Thessaly and Southern Macedonia. The Greeks, however, de mand that the entire pashalics of Mace donia, Thessaly and Epirus be ceded, so as to restore the boundaries precisely as they were before the Mohammedan con quest towards the close of the fourteenth century. To this demand Turkey very naturally demurs, and while giving a re luctant consent to the cession proposed by the Berlin conference, will not concede one inch more of ground. In the war that is impending Greece will have the support of the powers to a certain extent, but can hardly expected to be upheld in her unreasonable de mands outside of the stipulations of the protocol. If Greece gains the ad vantage she asks, she will have to do so by force of arms. Yet the consequences of a ruptnre of the peace may be of far more moment than* the questions at pres ent in issue. It is hardly to be expected that Great Britain will sit quietly by and witness the further dismemberment of the Ottoman empire. Her interest in its perpetuity is too great to admit of this. Nor is it probable that Russia will neg lect this golden opportunity presented by such a conflict to endeavor to possess herself permanently of that much cov eted prize, Constantinople* For a cen tury past it has been the ambition of Russian potentates to possess this key to the East, and a million lives have been sacrificed in the vain attempt to possess it. If the emperor should now take ad vantage of the situation and make an other attempt upon the city of mosques, a general European war would be inevitable, and the Bosphorus would again be dyed with human blood. Each European nation is jealous of the other. It is to the inter est of Germany, Great Britain, France and Austria to prevent Russia from ob taining a foothold on the Mediterranean such as she could command from Constan tinople, and all would oppose it with all the force at their commaad. It is to be hoped, however, that matters will jiot progress as far as this. In the petty quarrels of Greece and Turkey the people on this side of the Atlantic have little interest. Both are anti-progressive, and hindrances to the advance of civilization. If the fight about to commence should prove to baa Kilkenny cat affair no .tears would be shed. The revelations brought to light by the special committee investigating the pen itentiary at Syracuse convict the keepers of the greatest cruelty. Instruments of torture that would' have delighted the heart of an inquisitor were used upon the prisoners, whose sufferings must have been excruciating. Many of them, after being punished by the buck and gag and the cold water douche, were con fined to their beds for days and often weeks, and there is a suspicion that some . of the deaths that have- occurred in the institution have been caused by cruel treatment. The superintendent, a fellow named Spaulding. seems to be utterly destitute of humane feeling, and on be ing examined pleaded ignorance of the law as an excuse for his barbarities. He deserves to undergo some of the tortures he has inflicted upon his unfortunate victims. [Minneapolis Journal, Jan. I.] CAN, IT HE POSSIBLE? A strong Suspicion that Minneapolis is to Loose One of Her Largest Wholesale In terests. A paragraph in one of the St. Paul papers, this morning, stating that Geo. H. Newell had purchased some property in that city, sent a Journal reporter flying to learn the truth of the item. Unfor tunately he learned that it was too true. Mr. Newell has purchased the property on Third street, St. Paul, just below where Pat Kelly's gro cery house used to stand, and where Averill. Russell & Carpenter's paper warehouse was located. The lot has a frontage of sixty-six feet and is said to have cost Mr. lsewalls3f>o per front foot. Such a shrewd business man as .Gco. It". Newell never would invest $23,000 in property on a prominent business street of St., Paul unless he meant something definite thereby. This something, he: is understood to "have virtually admitted to be the erection of a large block upon his lots and the removal of his wholesale grocery business to St. Paul. -■_••• I ; Why this movement is to be made, is. only a* matter of conjecture. Mr. New ells reputation as a business man has been made in I the city, . where he-can point to naught but success. The re-' moval of any of our wholesale interests can illy be spared, especially coming as it does upon the heels of the great dry goods house of N. B. Harwood. Still, Minneapolis is a city, and too full of business, life and energy to sit in the I corner and mope because one of her ! merchants proposes to break loose from : mother home and try his luck in the cold i world alone. . * . "■ This Week jfafjiill 'flic grand clearing out sale* at Powers . Bros." :in real earnest. Every piece* of goods ha* I been marked down to the bed rook price. Real bargain*. ■ • -'• --••••- - -■' " ,~ Uargaius! Bargains! .■} In Dry Goods at A. H. Lindeke «fc Bro.'s for the next sixty days. Every piece of goods is of fered at great reduction in price, and they are real bargain*.; :; •r ; To Lovers of Fine Plug Tobacco. "Keno" Plug, manufactured by'Musselman &Co., Louisville, Ky., is the choicest plug tobacco sold- Adam Fetsch, wholesale agent. Use Win. Clarke & Son's Helix Needless Factory at -Redditcli, -England. Olilce, j SO Adams street, up stairs, Chicago. . Lawyers will tind Moore's Pa lent Office Queen Desks at Stees Bro.'s, \ii THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1881. MINN A NEWS. -i.^,^ ' r 'f '-*?'" ■ '■ -." ■•■}^"~-h {" Diphtheria lias appeared in Lake City and Hyde Park, W&bashaw county. ' *' Christinas day 5,000 bushels of; wheat were shipped by rail eastward from Gleu coe. ' TT^.'*?" The Albert Lea Standard of Dec. 30 Bays a fuel famine is imminent in that city. . It is estimated that fully one-half of the corn in Freeborn county is still un - husked. ;;':t' ":!;."" Rev. Moses Goodrich, a Univcrsalist minister, died at Anoka, Christmas day, aged 63 years . sl'uL- Hon.- W. H. Lyon has presented an or gan to the Congregational Sabbath school, in Lake City. " v * I' The late. ''cold snap" has greatly re tarded business operations in all places, and in all directions. A postofficc has recently been estab lished at Tintah, Minn.,, and Charles Smith appointed postmaster. The school teachers in Albert . Lea. at the close of their late term, received their wages in gold, aggregating $1,200. During the month of December, twen ty-seven marriage licenses were issued by the cleric of court in Goodhue county. Diphtheria is said to be raging in the towns south and ; southwest of Sauk Center, and many deaths are reported. Another telegraph wire has been stretched into Austin from the south by the American Union telegraph company. The housejof James Johnson, of Anoka city, was destroyed by lire last week. Several of the firemen were frost bitten. J. W. Shannon, of Lake City, was ar rested one day last week on a charge of forgery, and was put in jail for lack of bail. " •■■•■> ; '■■'■■ Hutchinson, McLeod county, has raised $400 to start a public library, and is vigorously pushing things in that direction. The Moorhead, Clay county, Advocate, has changed hands once more. It will henceforth be know as the "Moorhead Arganaut." The house of George King, a few miles west of Lansing, Mower county, was burned last week. Loss, $2,500; insur ance, $1,200. : : .::'■ From seventy-five to 100 passengers is said to have been a fair average for out going and in-coming trains the past week in Taylors Falls. The postollice at Cannon City has been re-established under the name of " Dean," and William G. Kickenapp has been appointed postmaster. The Anoka Union says Mrs. P. F. Pratt was presented by her husband, on Christ mas, with an elegant gold hunting case watch and chain worth $85. The Union says two women met in a restaurant in Anoka recently and while partaking of oysters got into a dispute. One drew S revolver and the other re treated. Mr. Poehler lias introduced into the House, and had referred to the committee on military affairs, a bill for the relief of the First* Minnesota Mounted Hanger volunteers. On a late evening, some forty members of the Swedish Lutheran church, in Anoka city, called on their pastor, Rev. Hans Nelson, and left with him presents to the value of $70. The basement of the new Congrega tional church. Lake City, that is now in process of completion, is now used by the society for Sabbath religious services. The Bulletin says tin' improvements in Wabashaw the last year have been the most notable since the foundation of the city, and the approaching season prom ises to be just as lively as the one draw ing to a close. St. Peter Tribune: Henry L. Moss, of St. Paul, has brought suit against the town of Marshall for damages sustained by defective sidewalks, causing him to fall and dislocate his shoulder. A warn ing to St. Peter. The horse supposed to have been stolen from James Cain, of Mt. Pleasant, Wa bashaw county, last summer, was found recently on the premises of a farmer of Belle Creek, Goodhue county, and re stored to its owner. Knudt Mikleson, a young man living near Hose Creek, in Mower county, in de scending from a wheat stack last week, was impaled on a crow liar standing be side the stack, and received injuries which caused his death. On Monday evening, Dec. 27, the ther mometer indicated a temperature below zero as follows: In Winnipeg, 35; Crook ston, 21: St. Vincent, ."!7; Grand Forks. 40; Fargo, 35; Bismarck; 31; Detroit, 28; Glyndoii, 27: Diiluth, 28; "Waseea, 28. Isaac C. Hart, the Wabashaw agent of the Singer Sewing Machine company, was recently arraigned before Justice Mc- Bride, in Lake City, on the charge of forgery in conned ion with his business. He waived examination and was put in jail in default of bail. The Wascca Herald of Dec. 31 says: Emma, aged 12 years and 11 >.io:itis daughter of J. W. and M. J. Van Orden, died on Thursday morning at 1 o'clock, of diphtheria. Other members of the family have had slight attacks of the same dis ease, but have recovered. The other day a five-year-old son of David Watson, of lied fell from the outside stair landing of a three-story barn, to the frozen ground, a distance of between thirty and forty .feet, and no bones were broken, no serious injury sus tained, and he is rapidly recovering. lied Wing Advance : There probably will be no more wolves sold to the county this year unless some are found frozen to death. The last years wolf product was not heavy. Only twenty three were de livered to the auditor for the whole year, ending November loth. 18S0, for which the parties who received warrants expect to get. some time, go!>. Wascca Radical: Mr. H. F. Biennan, while on his way to town with, a load of wheat, having chained one of his wagon wheels, stopped at the foot of the hifl to unchain ii. which he was in •the act of doing, when his team started, and in his efforts to stop them he slipped and fell forward of the wheels and the wagon passed over him. lie died the next day. Henderson (Sibiey county) Independ ent: There is now some hope of a rail road being buiit at uo distant day, from a point near Benton, on the Hast ings ..t Dakota road, directly wot. paus ing through Siblev county to Bearer Falls. . This i- a How directly agafnst the Sioux City road, and the wonder is that that company has remained quiel so Jong. The people of this county are greatly In need of a. road, and it makes very Tittle difference to them what company builds it. Windom (Gottonwood county) Report er Diphtheria is prevailing all around Windom. but as yet. it has not reached us. In the northwestern pnrl of the county several children have died, and over at Fulda there have been several deaths. But in Windom we have not been troubled, and it is not owing to our cleanliness either, but in some other agency. If the village is not cleaned up and diphtheria comes here fatality is gen erally feared by the physician>. Herman (Grant county) Herald: A family living in St. Oloff. Otter Tail coun ty, by the name of Ben Vonhardes. were horribly burned by gasoline, one day last week. "The particulars, hs reported by Mr. Brent Phinney, arc that Mis. B. un dertook to kindle a : fire .with Hie oil; the gas took fire, the flames catching her two little children, and in trying to save them her arms and breast were burned to a crisp, leaving her in a critical condition. One child cannot possibly; recover, while the other is in a very critical condition. Delano Eagle, . Dec, 30::,: On Satusday (Christmas) the dwelling house of J. 15. Jblicours, , near Waverly, in section "28, Marvsville, was destroyed by fire. - The family, says bur informant, had left a good fire in the stove and had gone to Waverly to attend church, when it v.as observed across the "adjacent lake that the house Mas on fire, and by the time Mr. Jolicours and assistance arrived, the house was enveloped in flames and was entirely, destroyed with most of all its contents. , Over 200 bushels of wheat was consumed with the building. Lake City Leader* Dec. ". 28: Last "Wednesday night, Henry; Buisson, a well known steamboat and raft pilot, became intoxicated and went into the billiard and liquor saloon of John McAuliff, in Waba shaw, and, to gratify a grudge, made an attack with billiard balls ;on the", bar keeper. One of the balls caromed on the head of a - bystander. ' Buissou was put out» of the room, but returned with a club in his hand, when the barkeeper drew a revolver and shot him in the arm, mak ing a slight flesh wound. Further hos tilities were prevented by the other par ties present. Red Wing Advance, Dec. 29: The Diamond Bluff mail driver, C. 11. Durgih, lost his team by driving into an air hole in the river Tuesday morning, near Trenton. He cut the traces and got the horses loose from the sled, and came near getting them out, but he was all alone, and the horse's : becoming/chilled, became too heavy for him and went under the ice. Mr., Durgin's clothing was wet through, and covered with ice, and when he reached this city lugging the two mail bags which he managed to save, it was found that his hands were badly frozen. St;. Charles, Winona county, Union: Mr. Henry G. Cox, of Saratoga township, raised half an acre of amber cane last season as an experiment. He manufac tured about forty-five gallons of clear, heavy syrup from the cane, and put it in a cask, intending to keep it . until the buckwheat pan-cake season enme around, when lie thought he would try its virtues. Attempting to draw off some for use a few days since, he found it would not run. Examination showed that the en tire mass had crystalized into a fair quali ty of sugar— although not entirely free from a certain tans. v METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY. For the Month of December, 1880, St. Paul, Minnesota; ' r Daily li. £.. 1 . _: Date. Mean H -5 pig o*2 £•* B:ir. •- 2 B S "■££ '5* 1& is p«| - & a •- - 3 . _____ *■ . **- b• . « Dae 1 30.K41 23.5 7&BJNW .(Hi " 2 30.858 10.5 - 715.0: N W .00 14 3 30.057 17.7 83.3 NW /.CO " 4 . 29.390 20.5 80.0 N .32 J5 99.903 1.7 (50.3 W .14 4> <> 30.35S -1.7 - (50.0 W .00 7 30.143 -1.7 74.OJSW .14 " 8.. 30.687 -3.7 03.7 NW .00 " '•' 30.64!: ' O.o! t«».:;!S\V .00 11 10 30.273 18.7 (53.7 SE .00 " 11 29.714 - 30.2 70.3 SE .05 " 12 29.(590 34.2 83.3 NW .28* " 18 29.476 86.0 87.0 SE .04 " 14....... 29.(555 29.0| 79.0 W .01 '• 15 29.0(50 22.5' : 81.7 m .00 : " 16 30.070 23.7; 78.3 E .00 " 17 30.090 25.0 79.3 NE .00 " 18 30.402 22.0 82.3 IN .00 •• ' 1 9 ....... 30.415 18.5 74.0 N .07 " 80 30.300 17.5 83.7— .07 " 21....... 30.359 18.2 84.3 S .05 " 22 30.298 19.2 79.7 SW .00 " 23 30.175 18.0 79.1) SE .02 " 24 ! 30.121, 20. V 84.0 8 .51 " 25 30.248 21.5' 77.7NW .22 " 20 30.233 9.2 74.0 NW .60 " 27 30.309 -15.5' 70.3 W .00 "; 28 30.211 -14.7 i 01.7: W .03 " 29 29.951 0.0 07.7 W .— 11 80 30.128 -2.5 (57.7 N .00 " 31 29.950 1.5 70.0 SW .CO Sums 938.186 422.5/2322.6! .... j .... Means .^ I 30.103' 13.(51 7t.91..J ... - Below zero. • " GENERAL ITEMS Highest barometer, 80.090, on the Itth. Lowest barometer, 29.44:5, on the 13th. Monthly range of barometer, 1.247. Highest temperature, 38 degrees, on the 14th. Lowest temperature, 27 degrees, below, on the 2Sth. Range, 05. ; Greatest daily range of temperature, 39 de grees, on the 10th. Least daily, range of temperature, 5 de grees/on the 12th sod 21st. Mean of maximum temperatures, 2.04. Mean of minimum temperatures, 0.1. Mean of daily go of temperature, 14.3. Prevailing direction of wind, northwest. Total movement of wind,' 4,836 mile*. Highest velocity of wind and direction, 34 miles per hour from the northwest. Number of foggy days, 0. . - Number of clear days, 8. Number of fair day!*, 7. Number of cloudy days on which do rain or snow fell, 5. ' ',7V--' '■■' Number of cloudy days on which rain or snow fell, 10. Total number of days on which rain or snow fell; 17. Depth of unmelted snow on ground at end of month, 18 inches. ~ Dates of Auroras, none. Dates of solar halos. 28th and 3Cih.~ Dates of lunar halos.lOth. Dates of frosts, each day in the month.' COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURE.- . Degrees. 1871 0 1872 0 1873 18.6 1874 r. 18.8 1875 25.5 1870 : 8.4 1 877 , .~. 33.9 1778...... ".' 19.3 1879 11.9 1880...: /........ 13 6 ;'*,.,; COMPARATIVE rUKCII'iTATIOXS. Inches. is; i :. (r 1878 0 is;: 1 , : 0.3 x 1874 ......0.72 1875 '. 1.56 1876 .' 0.25 1877 ••..... 1.42 1878 1.04 is;;» 2.47 1880 2.(59 O. S. M. Coxe,. Sergeant Signal Corps, U. S. A. . Ladles, Hear in Mind The fact that A. H. Lindeke & Bio. will retire from the retail trade .within the next sixty days, and oiler you splendid bargain* in Dreaa Goods, Silks', etc. No More Hard Times. If you will stop spending so much on line clothes, rich food and style, buy good, healthy food, cheaper and better ' clothing: get more real and substantial things of life every way, and especially stop the foolish habit of employ ing expensive quack doctors, 'or using so much of the vile humbug medicine that does you only harm, but put your trust in that simple, pure remedy, Hop Bitter?, that cures always at a triliiug cost, and you will sec good times and have good health.— Chronicle.. : . ~Ji .'.', An Outfit in Dry Goods Can lx: bought at the ciearing-out sale of Pow ers Bros.' for almost one-half: the money you usually pay for the same good*. Be in time. Business men go to Stees Bro.'s for Moore's Patent Counting House King Desks. A MODEL MARSHAL,' - How the United States Marshal of Georgia Abased It Authority— A Defaulter and Blaekmaitm: {j -\i ■ V-- i .•■■ [Washington Speciul (Dee. SI) to Chicago - 7; : -■ Tribune ]. . ■'. :. , ;. The charges against Marshal Fitzsim mons, of Georgia, are even more serious than was at first supposed, and, from the present temper of the commissioner, it is nearly certain that Fitzsimmons will be removed. Gen. Raum has been, for the last eighteen , months, endeavoring to secure the dismissal of this officer. The charges in general are neglect of duty and malfeasance. ' Gen. llaum has, dur ing that period, forwarded a number of very strong letters to the secretary of the treasury. ■ There arc on file in the office of the attorney-general numerous affidavits and reports of special agents of the treasury, department, who have examined into the case, making the most serious accusations, and these arc said to be ac accompanied by . proofs. . The commis sioner charges Fitzsimmons with having defrauded : the government of between $15 ; 000.and $20,000. Fitzsimmons is also charged with having repeatedly arrested persons on factitious charges for the sake of the fees, which were paid by the gov ernment, and in many ways either ob structed or maladministercd the Maws. One case is cited, as an illustration, where a deputy marshal meets a colored man with a small quantity of tobacco, and who, upon solicitation, sells the deputy a piece of it, though he originally intended it for his own use. Thereupon the deputy discloses " the fact that he is an officer, and informs the astonished negro that he has violated the law, and is under arrest. .In such a case, the man on trial is acquitted, but the : fees are collected of the government the same as if the case had been one of genuine in fraction of the laws. There are also numerous instances in the • papers on file like the following: A dealer in to baccco omits to pay his license-fee at the proper time i and 'afterwards pays both fee and penalty of 50 percent,, his only fault having been f orgetf ulness. In "such, case, the dealer is arrested, and formal proceedings are instituted against him. The rule of the office is," where there is no intent to violate the law or defraud the government, to ; let the offender off without punishment. It is also charged that, in some in stances,lives have been sacrificed through the cupidity or worse of this officer. AIK these charges, and many more, have been the subject of Commissioner Raum's cor respondence with Secretary Sherman. It is understood that Marshal Fitzsimmons will soon come to Washington to make a reply to the charges against him, and to defend himself with all his personal in fluence. : Should he be removed, it is thought that Mr. Kimball. of the Kiinball house, Atlanta, Georgia, a large manu facturer, will be his successor. Kimball is a Northern man, having "been born in Connecticut, but has long resided in Georgia, where he has invested consider able means. WISCONSIN NEWS. A dispatch from Wausaw states that Wil liam Slater,' a logger in a camp, was kill ed by a falling tree, on Sunday, Dec. 26. "OifTuesdav, Dec. 28, the coldest day of the season, the thermometer ranged from 20 to 30 degrees below zero throughout the State. '■■'. ■■ ■ - - A son of Herman Schumacher, of Janes ville, while playing with a tin whistle, fell and forced it into the roof of his mouth, making an ugly and painful wound. ■ At La Crosse, on Christmas day, an 11-year old boy of R. T. Roberts, of Bost wick Valley, was riding on a load of wood when the sled slewed against a stump, catching his legs between it and the load, breaking both above the ankle. L. A. Meister, of LaCrosse, agent- of the Buffalo German Insurance company, was arrested Monday, Dec. 27, charged with violating the insurance laws of the State. He has often been in trouble re garding the . insurance business, having once before been arrested. . Peter Vanderhoof, who is clearly inentiliedas one of a gang that attempt ed to wreck a Wisconsin Central train a few days ago, near Plymouth, was cap- j tured near Fond Lac, Sunday afternoon. Dec. 20, after an exciting chase;) His wife and family had been ancsted a few days previous, . near Sheboygan Falls, charged with stealing wheat.* Fond dv' Lac Commonwealth : " At about 4.o'clock Monday afternoon. Dec. 27, Dennis Roman, residing in the town of Fond dv Lac, was driving homeward, and about a mile west of this city found Christopher Evans, a resident of the town, lying behind his own cutter in the middle of- the road. Evans' horse was patiently at a stand-still, though the weather was fearfully cold. Evans lay upon the frozen ground with his cap and mittens off, and an investigation dis closed .that he was dead drunk. He had fallen from his conveyance, and having been unable to help himself had lain exposed long enough to have both ears frozen solid, while both hands were frozen . nearly to the wrist. He was given immediate attention, but his hands are so badly nipped that it is feared amputation will be - necessary Had he. lain much r longer he would have frozen to death. " - ■ ■ "}-\ '- IXUNION THERE IS STRENGTH. An Old Firm Under the New Title of George Ilenz & Co.- -'-'.V;-' The extensive and extending business of the old and familiar firm of Geo. Benz, successor to Bcnz «&Becht, has become so massive that the tax upon the physical powers of one person in its management, has proved to be a serious, and weighty responsibility. Hence, it has be come an obligation upon Mr. Benz that he Ik; partially relieved from the constant demand upon his physical energies. And it is our pleasure to announce to the public that on the Ist of January, 1881, the following well-known gentlemen will become associated with Mr. Benz in his business, under the. firm name of Geo. Benz & Co.: Mr. John Haggeniniller and Mr. Win. F. Hachmann. Mr. Jlaggenmiller, late senior partner in the house of Haggen- Htiller & Kulil, is an old resident of this city, familiarly known to the business men of the city and State. - He brings to the house a thorough knowledge of the business, arid will give his undivided attention to the interests of the new firm. Mr. Hachmann has long been the. faithful and trusted traveling agent of Benz & Bcclit and Geo. Benz, and no business man is better known to the trade nor more gen erally respected and 'deservedly popular than the gentlemanly junior partner of Geo. Bens & Co. This combination of business talent, promises energy, activity and solidity. The immense facilities of this house will he ac tively exercised in the expansion and extension of their already colossal business. With the new forces in power, the whole strength of so powerful a combination will be felt to the ex tresnest point of the j Northwest, and we pre dict for. the . new firm of Geo. Benz A Cot., a business future which shall crown them .with ! honor, and prove in the highest degree emi nently successful/; -i Owatonna' Review, Dec. 25: Mr. A. Rozer. one of the old citizens of. the city. was found dead on Sunday morning last. He had been suffering "from a partial stroke of paralysis for several months, and was not : able to move around very much. During the fall he has had somc° one to stay with him. but Saturday night he was alone, and from appearance when found it was thought that he attempted to reach for. something on the ' table, when his strength gave way, and he-Mas, found lying with his head across a pail, his throat resting on the edge and was thus choked to death. /-\ He Mas about 78 years of age. . • ; '. : ; NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS. Gathered by the Special Reporter* of tin tMly Globe. BBECKENRIDGE. One of the most pleasant parties ever witnessed west of St. Paul, took place here on New Year's eve. Over seventy five couples ware present, and to the beautiful music of "J lonic's" band from AVikl Rice, everybody had to dance. Floor manager Frank Parrage won de served plaudits for the splendid manner in which he conducted affairs, and the pains he took to make it a success. A grand supper was served at the Minnesota Bouse, ami all went merry as a marriage bell. •VAHI'KTON, ». T. The citizens of Wahpeton generally, a number ot people from Breckenridge, in cluding the editor of the Free Press, of that place, and a representative of the Globe, were sumptuously entertained on New Year's eve by James Boss, Esq., the occasion being that of the formal open ing of the Merchants hotel, just com pleted by Mr. Ross at a cost of §4,000, and which, by the way, is a grand thing for Wahpeton, and the far more important occasion of the marriage of Mr. Ross to Miss Jennie Call, of New Hampshire. A splendid collation was served and the genial hospitality evi denced by the proprietor augurs well for his future success. Mr. Ross was a former citizen of Hammond, Wisconsin, and is an experienced hotel man. OFFICIAL Meetii of the Boarfl of Pablic Works. St. Paul, Dec. 17, 1880. Hoard met at 2 p. m. Present — Messrs. Farrington and Koch. Absent — Mr. President. (Excused). On motion Mr. Farrington took the chair. Minutes of last meeting read and approved. Messrs. D. W. Ingersoll and twenty two others presented a protest (represent ing 2.37S feet) against the assessment for grading Josctte street from Dayton avenue, to Martin street. Placed on file. The Street Insjig£tors reported, the* number of men and teams employed by them in their respective districts the past week, the cost of the same and where employed. Placed on tile. The matter of making and completing the assessment for grading Louis street from Nelson avenue to Rondo street, came up, when, owing to an error in the notice given.- it was ordered that the same be anrfulled and the clerk directed to give a new notice. The matter of the completion of the assessment for grading Josette street from Dayton avenue to Martin street, came up. and after hearing Messrs. In gersoll, Terry, Culleu, Munger, Brack and others, in opposition to the same, the whole matter wa* laid over one week, (to Dec. 24). Pursuant to due notice the matter of the confirmation of the assessment forthe construction of a sewer on Eighth street from Minnesota to Cedar street and Ce dar from Eighth to center of Ninth street, came up, and no objection being made the same was duly confirmed. Yeas. 2. Pursuant to due notice, the matter of the confirmation of the assessment for construction of a sewer on Sibley street from Third to Fourth street, came up, and no objection being made the same was duly confirmed. Yeas, '. On motion it was ordered that the Common Council be requested to annul the order for the opening and extension of Iglehart street from Hockubin to Kent street, and pass an order for the opening and extension of said Iglehart street, from Hackubin street west to the city limits. The Clerk was instructed to purchase the neccessary number of Curtle's new maps of St. Paul for use in office of Board and Engineer. Estimate No. 12. for work on Kittson addition sewers. C. T. Stiller contractor. for the sum of .-*2, 520.24.. was examined and allowed. Adjourned. JOHN Faui:in<;ton. Chairman. - R. L. Gokman, Clerk Board Public Works ' Meeting of Board Public; Works. St. Paul, Dec. 24th, 1880. Board met at 2 p. if. Present : Messrs. Farrington and Koch. Absent :.Mr. President. (Excused). On. motion. Mr. Farringtoh took the chair. Minutes of last meeting read and approved. . The Street Inspectors] of the Upper and Lower Districts reported the number of men and teams employed by them the past week, when employed and the cost of the same. Placed on tile. The matter of v the completion of the assessment for the grading of Josctte street from Dayton avenue to Martin street, came up pursuant to adjournment, and was laid over two weeks. ' "" The matter of the assessment for grad ing and constructing a culvert on Fort street from Erie to Oneida street, came up and after due consideration was ordered : to stand complete on a basis of assessing all prop erty equally from Ramsey street to .south city limits, and that the Clerk give the confirmation notice. The matter of the assessment for change of grade on Fourth street, from Neil! to Commercial street, came up and no ob jection being made and after due consid eration, it was ordered that all property on the line of said improvement be as sessed equally, to- wit: benefits 3c per foot, damages nothing, and that the Clerk give the confirmation notice. The matter of the assessment for change of grade on Kittson street, from Fifth street to a point half way between Fourth and Prince streets, came up and no objection being made and after due consideration it. was ordered that all prop- j erty on the line of said improvement be assessed equally ,to-wit, Benefits 3c per foot, damages nothing, and that the Clerk give th" cofirmatien notice. The matter of the completion of the assessment for opening an alley in block 15, Whitney «k Smiths addition, came ! up. pursuant to due notice, when said matter was laid over one week. The matter of the 'confirmation of the assessment for opening and extending i Burr street, from the south end of Burr street, in substitution of and addition to Irvine's out lots, south to Collins street,"" came up pursuant to due notice, and was laid over for one week. Adjourned. Jnu. Faukini.ton. Chairman: K. [> Gokman, Clerk Board Public Works, i Near Boonevillc, Mo., two old begroes, Lida i and Henry Slaughter, mother and -on, were found frozen to death -six miles from :tiicrc. ! Henry was lying" in the road about 1,200 yards from his bouse, and his mother sitting at a I Brelesa hearth at home, There was plenty of wood, and a stock of provisions and clothing I iii the house. The couple were old and hick. Henry being 00 and his mother said to i c over 100, and they wen- nearly helpless. ' Making allusion to its valuab'c qualities ' John Stein, ' Esq.,." city brewer, DanvilJ-, : I!!., says: 1 have used St. Jacobs Oil in my family, and recommend it to my ac- : quaintances./ It has always given the beat satisfaction, and is truly a; wonder- | ful n-rncdy. MINNEAPOLIS NEWS The'C'vlleetor\Call. The Minneapolis collector will call upon subscribers to the Gloije during the current week and patrons will oblige by being pre pared to pay their bills promptly. The OIOM otti^is at No. 213 Ilennepin avenue. Should any delay or neglect on the part* of carriers become apparent to any of ' our sub scribers, please report the fact at the office be. twecu the hours of SA. m. and 10 p. m., and the matter will be promptly attended to. * ft':. J. B. BoTTixi:.\r, Manager. 1 M I N POMS (i LOMELKTS. 'fiie Eabt Side Temple of Honor will noil its regular meeting this evening. John Goes, Esq., of the Hciuicpin avenue drug (store, lies at the point of death. We learn that Something over 5,000 tons of, ice thus have far been put in the up city this season. A runaway occurred on North Washington avenue yesterday, but was attended by no serious results. Major Holdcn is "at home" with a "bill"' where his head lits his shoulders. "Th wicked hardeueth his neck." Sclah. The diphtheria scourge seems to be on the decrease. Several cases are reported as recov ering, and the physicians say that the worst of the season is over. At the meeting of Social Science class, yester day, Mr. Morcy extended a 6ix#ial invitation to the members of the class to attend the reg ular monthly meetings of tk" Academy of Natural Science, held' the second Tuesday of each month, . A memorial is being circulated among our citizens for signatures, by certain industrious ladies, to be presented to our next legislature, praying an enactment which will legalize fe male suffrage on ' the temperance, or liquor license question. The Reform club met yesterday afternoon, as usual, and services were conducted under the- guidance of Chaplain Sattcil .■•'. The services, as now arranged on the regular pro gramme, are very interesting and attractive, and it is a significant fact that yesterday uit nessed the'largest attendance ever present at any meeting since the organization ofthe club, and the semi-religious character of exercised invite a large class of people who attend no other regular religious meeting. Some five hundred were present and many stepped up and signed the pledge. * THE SUNDAY .SCIENCE CLASS. i> — A Very Interest !>></ Si** to ii at the Academy of Natural Sciences Yesterday. At the meeting of the Sunday • Science! class yesterday the first hour was devoted to the topic, "The physical forces and their effects upon the earth's crusts." Dr. Barnard read I lengthy, comprehensive and carefully prejMtred paper, treating the various theories commonly known. Prof. Morey followed in the presentation of — which he claims as original in himself — theory of the causes of light and heat. He claims that heat is created by the arresting of the light's cays by the earth a surface — and not as claimed by some of our philosophers, caused by the vibration of light. Mr. Alexander thought it was caused boldly by vibration, however. Very rapid vibration caused light, but by decreasing the vibration of objects throughout all space heat was ■ caused. Other speakers advanced various theories, but these were the most important. The second hour was devoted to the subject of the "Preference Vote." After treating ujton the various other phases of our present system of voting he laid sieg upon the caucus system. He 1 claimed that .fully four-fifths, of the rascality of the public- and political officers which afflicts our nation is directly attributable to , the caucusees. That it had been periodically sounded by press and pulpit that "the country is going to the dogs," advocating as a mode j of protection against its rascality, going back to anarchy, etc He said should an honest citizen attend a caucus he would find s "cut and dried" chairman, and find ■ slate all made up, and to undertake to break that slate would be sheer folly. This results hi the practical . disfranchitsement of the minority party,whieh is unjust in the extreme. In this State fully four-tenths of the voters were Democrats; but, strange to say, only one Democrat had been elected to our next legu>lalurc at the past I election. The voice of the people is certainly Dot the voice of the majority "but the voice of all, and hence the minority is entitled to a rep resentative as will ■as the majority. Some* strong exceptions Mere taken to this theory by a certain young Republican. In politic^ he claimed there was do such thing possible as a minority rule, or representation. flic Republican party recognized do such theory, He was well satisfied by the present i system. Again he claimed there could be no such thing as second choice. A politician enters the Held for a' principle and %<•><■.- for. that principle — not lor a second choice, lie could have no second choice, unless it be I choice of leaser evils. lie here referred to Hie caucus system, lie acknowledge cer tain corruptions which had come under his individual notice— caucuses throughout the various wards of the city being successfully controlled by cut anil dried lings. He thought honest a politicians should attend caucuses and renovate them. The discussions for next Sunday will be upon the topic "Minority Representation, 11 with Mr. Alexander as leader: ('. 11. l)u Hois will read a paper on the American aborigine*. The class closed 'its session by electing (.'. 11. Dii Bois as president, and by re-electing the balance of its old board of officers. Why Therm Was no Meeting Tfterr, Last Friday night was selected urid set apart by the lacal board of . a certain insurance as sociation, for the purpose of holding an im portant business session. The hall, (Elliot's), in which this sage body corporate hold their meetings, is also used by certain Good Tem plar lodges for their meetings. Now it transpires that a Good Templars lodge— not one of those who meet !in this hall, by the way — held on this auspicious Friday evening a watch meeting. "And thereby hangs I tale," for thgee ladies, through a misunder standing at to which hall in which the. watch meeting was to be held, innocently repaired to Elliot's hall, laid oil' their ultra wrappings and took formal possession— one complacently seating herself in the station of presiding officer. Presently the members of the board, "one by one," came up and i>ecped in, but sw i ing the ladies, they each in turn came to the sudden conclusion that there was not to be .< meeting of the board there that night and si lently folded their tents and stole away. Tearful L'oukltna. [New York Special.] Senator Conkling has not hesitated to converse on the subject of the.TTnsinua tion.s made against him for befriending Mrs.' Spraguc. He talks on this subject with an eloquence, and almost a tearful i ness, hi* eldest friends have never observ ed in him. He has newspaper* troiu every pail of the country, and even from Mexico, charging these; imputation* on j both himself and the lady: and he: saws it ' is monstrous that there can be hoi punish inent for such deliberate and wanton stabbing of i it <•••:•:> people.. He speaks of Mrs. Spraguc'a children, and of his own family, as common victims of this universal defamation. Ife says .Mrs. Spraguc is as pure a woman as live-. i and suffered incredibly to keep her.'good name and her children' Conking pays the highest kind of eulogy to Chief .run 1 tier Chase, of whom he says: He is oho of the grandest figures produced in our history, • lie say- if there was gratitude of the commonest kind among the people of the land, they would rush to his daughters defense, instead of assuming the meanest to be true concerning her. One gentleman, referring to ( onklmg'* excitement on this subject, said be talked as if ii were a relief to his feelings to | bring this subject out; and never in the secret -ions of the Senate, when he has made the ablest speeches of hi- life. lms lie equaled his remarks on tin- Sprague case.