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Daily || (Elabe. Official Paper of the City Sc County Printed and Published Every Day in the Year BT THE ST. PAUL GLOBE PRINTING COMPANY, NO. 17 WABiSHAW STREET, ST PAUL. Terms of Subscription for the Dally Globe. By curler (7 p»pr • per week) .70 cents per month .- >. ... .■ ■■:■ . f,i . . By mail (without Sunday edition), 6 papers per week, 60 cent! per month . By mail (with Sunday edition), 7 pipers per week,' 70 cent* per ironth. (Cvi : ---^;"v7 THE WEEKLY GLOBE. . The Weekly Globs la a mammoth sheet, exactly double the size of the Daily. It is Just the paper for the fireside, containing in addition to all the current news, choice misoellaoy, agricultural matter, mar ket reports, etc. It is furnished to single subscri bers at $1, with IS oents added for pre-payment of postage. Subscribers should remit $1.16. BT. PAUL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1881. The city council last night appropri ated $3,000 to aid the New Ulm sufferers. This was very proper action. The whole city should contribute upon the occasion of such a calamity, and in no other way can it be done. :.,£■>' 3lk. VrLLARD^did a generous act in telegraphing $1,500 for the aid of the New Tim sufferers while enroute to New York. In view of the fact that his rail road interests have no connection with the stricken region, the donation of such an amount with such "promptness is es pecially noteworthy. Ex- Senator Howe excuses his desertion of his place in the Paris monetary con ference by saying that his associates told him his services could.be spared. His services could have been spared in the Senate years ago when he was creating a vacancy in the representation of Wis consin at Washington. In fact there is no man in the union whose services can better be dispensed with. A few grasshoppers having been seen in several parts of the State, unreliable correspondents have attempted to create a sensation by predicting a general inva sion of these pests. There is not the slightest cause for alarm. ; The Globe's advices, covering the entire area of the State, show that no appreciable damage has been done by the insects thus far, and there is no probability that they will create any havoc the present season. Mr. TuTHiLii is a good Republican, and it may-be presumed is informed as to the character of his associates in the New York legislature. His picture of them on Monday 1 was certainly not a flat tering one. and should bring the blush of shame to their cheeks if they are not past all shame. "Sneaks," "bribers," "cor ruptioaists," "gamblers" "lobbyists" and "tran < no-prying pimps" are some of the choice epithets applied to them, and they are all well-deserved. The death of Dean Stanley will deprive the world of a book that would have possessed unusual interest. About a year ago the dean spent several months in this country, and being a close observer, he made . copious ; notes of what he saw. It was his intention to embody his Amer ican observations in book form, but his illness and death have prevented such a consummation. The fact to be regret ted, for the deam expressed himself most • favorably as to the manners of the_Amer ican people. A SMALL BUSINESS. Calico Charley, or, as he is officially known, Gov. Foster, of Ohio, sought to make political capital out of the at tempted assassination of President Gar field, Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, first proposed a day of thanksgiving and re joicing when the President should be considered out of danger, and sent the proposal to the governors of all the Southern States. Gov. Black burn of Kentucky also made a similar suggestion. Two days after these Gov ernors had moved in the matter Calico Charley issued his pronunciamen to, se cured its transmission by the Associated .Press and impudently took the responsi ity of naming a committee of Governors to appoint a day of thanksgiving. He evidently supposed he could gain some political prestige by forestalling a movement already in progress. It would have been much more graceful to have allowed such, a movement to start from some other State than Ohio That is Garfield's home and where he would naturally be held in high esteem. To have had the movement come from States which did not give him their electoral votes would have beea a display of rising above party, and an act of magnanimity which the entire country would have appreciated, Calico Charley has not sufficient breadth of beam to un derstand this. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NOT UNITED. After Guiteau had fired his pistol shot at the President he announced it as his purpose to unite the Republican party. Some Republican newspapers, in view of the defeat of the stalwart candidates at Albany, affect to believe that the pur pose has been accomplished— that the as sault upon the life of the President has resulted in cementing the party in bonds more lasting than any thai have hereto fore bound it. They are inclined to be grateful for the assault because of this fact, and allude to it with great glee. A party that can rejoice at assassination as a means of overawing opposition is too despicable to command respect. No ben efit, however great, can atone for a deed of such atrocity, and the man who al ludes to the effects as a justification or even as a result of the assault is as bad as the assassin. But the unity in the Republican party that some people fondly assume to have been wrought by the assault of Guiteau on the President is more fancied than real. It is possible that the * precarious condition of the President exercised some influence upon a few members of the New York legislature, and induced them to vote for Miller as a successor to Platt. But that •was but a temporary impulse. The same causes for discontent that existed before the assault exist now, and at the next election will make themselves fully man ifest, whether Garfield shall live or die. There is a universal sympathy for the President not only among Republicans but among Democrats. All are fervent in their wishes for his recovery. But this sympathy, going out to an individual, does not argue the union of all elements upon political subjects. A person can ex press sympathy for the President in his personal afflictioa without pledging him self to the party with which he is asso ciated. It will be found that the wounds cre ated in the Republican party during the past four mouths have not been healed. They may have been forgotten or ignored for a few weeks during the suspense at tending the great tragedy that has so late ly taken place. But they will break out again as violently as ever as soon as that suspense is removed. Conkling will not submit to be driven from public life, nor will his faithful adherents be content to take back seats while their old antagonists are enjoying the fat of the land. They will make a desperate struggle to regain their old position, and fight the present victors to the death. The Republican party has not been united by the assault upon the President. There has simply been an armistice — a cessation of hostilities for a short time. War will be renewed as soon as the Pres ident is out of danger, and will be car ried on with all the old bitterness. It is noasensical to presume that all the ani mosities engendered could have been dis sipated in a day or in a week. They will continue to rankle, and will have no un important influence upon future elec tions, both in the State of New York and throughout the Union. Letter frem Mrs. Garfield. To the Editor of the Globe. I hand you for publication a letter received yesterday from Mrs. Garfleld, by a family now residing in St. Paul, but formerly residents of Ohio, living near Gen. Garfield and family, and warm and intimate personal friends. They address ed Mrs. Garfield a letter of sympathy on the great sorrow that has overwhelmed her and received the following reply, which, touchingly exhibits her warm apprecia tion of personal good will and kindness, as well as of the national sympathy which is so ungrudgingly and kindly poured out upon her and her suffering husband in this hour of sore trial: Executive Mansion, Washington, July 16, 1881.— My Dear Mrs. : Tour letter and your daughter's are just received, and I hasten to express to you my gratitude for all your words of tender sympathy and kind re gard. Gen. Gtrfleld is yet too weak to be told even, of the great wealth of loving kindness that is overflowing from the heart of this great nation; but all is being treasured up for eye and ear, so soon as he is able to bear it, and from no friends will it give him more pleasure to hear than from his old friend Mr. , or from his family. We now hope that the general is on the high road to recovery. With a heart full of thankfulness, I remain Your sincere friend, Lucbetia R. Garfield. Lawn Festival Last Night. The festival at "Merriarn's Park" last evening proved in every respect a most pleasing and satisfactory entertainment. The young ladies of the Sodality to the number of fifty presided at the several tables, scattered over the grounds, which were very tastefully and artistically deco rated with flowers "and evergreens. The central pieces, band platform, lem onade booth, fruit and candy tables were conspicuous and ornamental inventions. All the young ladies, particularly Misses Wise, Brown, Dowlan, Mullery, Gill, Lynch, Dougher, Touhey, Dion and McDonough, are deserving of special credit for their untiring efforts and at tention to please the throngs of people who gathered to the grounds through out the evening. Board of The board of equalization met at 10 a. m. yesterday, Mayor Rice, ex-offickfpres ident, in the chair. The entire board was present, except Aid. Cornish, who is absent from the city. The persona] assessment of the First ward was taken up and examined. Several notations were made, but no final action or changes were made, the board unanimously pass ing a resolution that no publication of changes should be made until the whole list was gone through. Any person who has any personal grievance,' or is affected by the action of the board, will be noti fied by the auditor in time to be heard. The board adjourned until 2 p. m. to-day. THE COURTS. District Court. JJJudge Brill filed a decision yesterday in the matter of the estate of Henry Web»r, deceased. It appears from the records that the deceased made two wills, one of which the judge of probate refused to admit to probate. The widow, Mrs. Sophia ."appealed from this decision. Judge Brill decided that the insru inent named be admitted to probate and al lowed as the last will and testament of Henry Weber, deceased. This decision gives the widow control of the estate during her natu ral life, and at her death to be divided between the children, share and share alike. Municipal Court. [Before Judge Burr.] CRIMINAL CASES. 8. Brintship; drunk and disorderly. Ten dollars or ten days in city Jail. Sentence sus pended on condition of leaving town. John Kelly; disorderly. Fine of $25, or thirty days, and sentence suspended if defend ant leaves town. Geo. W. Pinney; drunk. Sent to jail for ten days. Wm. Wilson; drunk. Fine of $5, paid. CIVIL CASKS. M. C. Isaacs «fe Co. vs. Mayo & Clark. Con tinued two weeks. D. J. Henneeßy vs. J. Federson. Continued one week. (ft. J. Rice vs. Westerburg & Ekholm. Passed. Lamprey & DeMerill vs. Lester Ken field. Settled and dismissed. Anthony Yoerg vs. Thoe. McCauley. Con tinued to August 23. Fred. Eminert vs. F. G. Harst. Settled and dismissed. A Keimpein, plaintiff, vs. C. Prepto, de fendant, and A. Allen, garnishee. Judgment against defendant. Julian Dtller vs. Fred Emmert. Continued one week. Anna R. Mintzer vs. Patrick Shanley. Pasted. Frederick Arzt vs. H. A. Hagaman. For trial by court Ju!yl2l st, at 10 a. m. J. H. Moritz vs. Mozart McDonald. Judgment for plaintiff. Martin Delaney ana M. J. O'Connor, plaintiffs anclre.=pondents,'vs.JJulius Austrian, defendant! and,appellauts. Stricken from the calendar. Tens of thousands in this city have been cured by the absorption treatment — a Holinan Pad and auxiliaries. They tell you so. Yet you willfully consent to follow in the old rut — drugs and poisons. SAinf PADL DAILY GLOBE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1881. THE GLOBE HOROSCOPE. As It Caste Its Light on the Chicago Markets. [Speoial Telegram to the Globe.] Chicago, July 19. — Cables firmer. Weather fine. Our wheat market Is very steady under the local demand. Early there seemed to be an effort to force the demand for August, but it soon weakened and closed lower than Sep tember. There Is no demand for shipments, and these two facts are the weak features. Cash nominal, Iji c below August. Corn firm and steady under good speculative de mand. Oats active und higher for all options. Speculation increasing. Provisions less active and prices nominally unchanged. Curb prices: August wheat, $1.14 V; September, $1.14^; September corn, 48',c; oats, 29»,c; pork, $17.80; lard, $11.55. THE COMMON COUNCIL. Aid for the New Ulm Sufferers— Street Im provements— Proposals for a New En gine, Etc. The regular meeting of the common council was held last evening. The following resolution was offered by Aid. Otis: Resolved, That the city clerk be and he is hereby directed to draw a warrant for $3,000 upon "the city treasurer in favor of the mayor, to be used by him as a relief fund for the suf ferers in Brown and Nicollet counties from the lale disastrous storm which has visited them, said fund to be used and expended by the mayor as his best judgment and discretion may dictate. Adapted, after a brief discussion. Various petitions and communications were submitted and appropriately dis posed of. The veto of Acting Mayor Dowlan, of the resolution authorizing- the purchase of 1,000 opera chairs for the new market house, was sustained. A protest against the enforcement of the awning ordinance was, after some discussion, referred to the committee on ordinances. The matter ef constructing a sewer on Sibley, between Seventh and Fourth streets, was referred to the board of pub lic works in the usual form. Also the construction of a sewer on M<B<al si reet, to connect with the Fort street sewer. A communication from the workhouse board was received, recommending the commencement of work on the proposed buildings. Reports of city officers were presented and accepted. Comptroller Roche called attention to the wrong inflicted by the present law re lating to delinquent taxes. The city engineer reported the sewers under contract and their probable cost per foot and in total. The proposed grading of Selby avenue was approved. Sewers were ordered on Rosabel be tween Fourth and Fifth streets, and on Fort street to Douglass street. In the matter of the widening of Sev enth street the report of the board of public works was presented, Mr. Ansel Oppenheim protested against the pro posed condemnation. Aid. Starkey and the city attorney were heard on the ques tion, and it was" referred to the committee on streets and the city attorney. George W. Walsh, contractor for the Fifth ward sewers, presented a commu nication asking for an extension of time for the completion of the contract. It was, after considerable discussion, de cided to disapprove the contract. The construction of a large number of sidewalks was authorized. An ordinance was passed, after a pro tracted discussion, authorizing the Chi cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad company to erect a temporary warehouse on the fiver front, east of the Davidson elevator. An ordinance amending the impound ing ordinance was submitted and passed. An ordinance appropriating $50 to H. S. Saroni for damages to oil lamps was presented and passed under suspension of the rules. A number of resolutions were present ed and adopted, none of them of any par ticular public interest. Aid Ringwald offered a resolution re citing that as it had been charged and proved that the Silsby Manufacturing company had offered bribes for votes to members of the common council, that engine be debarred from the competitive trial. Laid on the table. An ordinance for the payment for lands for the opening and extension of Tilton street was passed under suspension of the rules. Bids tor the drains of the market house were opened from Daniel Mullin and Warne Bros., and lef erred to the committee on markets. Bi»ls for a steam fire engine were open ed as follows, and referred to the com mittee on fire department: L. Butler & Son, Waterford, N. V $ 4,200 La Frince Fire Engine Co., El mira.N. V 4,500 Silsby Manufacturing Company 5,500 Spaw"n & Dennisson Mfg. Co., New York 4,000 Bids for a hose cart were received as follows: Spawn & Dennisson $ 635 Ryan Bros 650 E. B. Preston 500 The customary bills were submitted, and at 11:50 the council adjourned. The Grasshoppers Up North. A gentleman from the vicinity of Fer gus Falls, in the city yesterday, stated that a very large number of grasshoppers made a temporary halt in that section, Sunday night. The alarming feature connected with the appearance of 'hop pers at this time, as explained by the gen tleman in question, is that it is now the season for the insects to deposit their eggs, which they do when flying over the country, lighting in some favored lo cality for this purpose, and them con tinuing their journey. It is from the pro ducts of these eggs, and not from the fly ing battalions which have been reported from various points the past week, thai damage is to be apprehended. So far as learned the lighting of the insects as above, and also at other points reported, has been simply for feeding, the period for egg depositing apparently not having been quite reached. The presence of the 'hoppers in quite large numbers is, of course, cause for much uneasiness; but, so far as can be judged from the re ports received from parties who have closely watched the movements of the in sect, there is no cause for alarm as yet. A Good Suggestion. [St. Vincent Herald.] We understand that Gen. R. W. John son, of St. Paul, is talked of as the prob able Democratic candidate for guberna torial honors at the fall election. The Democrats could do a great deal worse than to make such nomination. In fact, we do not know how they could do any better. The general is a man of excel lent judgment, liberal and cultured edu cation, a broad-gauge gentleman of the old school, who, no doubt, would make a much better governor than many of the aspiring Republican donkeys who are seeking the position and claiming it as theirs by divine right. The Philadelphia Enquirer of Decem ber 20 refers to the case of Major T. A. Hillier, No ; 2,235 Master street, that city, who suffered so terribly with rheumatism that he was confined to his bed for weeks at a time, absolutely helpless, and unable to obtain relief even from the best phy sicians. After the failure of every means, he happened to hear of St. Jacobs Oil, tried it, and was cured. BAIL MD RIVER. Official Chances ou the Manitoba Road— Waekman Superintendent of Transpor tation and Rice and Guthrie Division Superintendents— Blunders of a Milwau kee "Special" Correspondent— A Winni peg Opinion that Northern Pacific Inter ests are Opposing; St. Paul & Manitoba Interests in the Province— Another New River Boat Saturday— River Freights— Lacal and Personal Rail and River Notes. Kansas City people, going to Minnetonka to rest and keep cool, continue to arrive, about a carload a day. Twenty-three immigrants, going to Ada and Crookston, went out on the St. Paul & Manitoba trains yesterday. The yard men of the Minneapolis <fc St. Louis road at Minneapolis have struck for an increase of $5 per month on their wages. Col. Gray, general attorney, and Gen. Haupt, general manager of the Northern Pa cific, left for Duluth last evening, to be absent a day or two. The Pullman car company, although its shops are more than doubled, is unable to keep up with the need of more sleeping cars in the Northwest and West. A Bismarck dispatch to Northern Pacific headquarters yesterday, announced the arrival of the steamer lutte from the upper river, bringing fifty passengers. E. W- Winter, Esq., vies president of the Chicago, St. Paul A Omaha company, and a member of the executive com mittee of the St. Paul & Duluth company, left last evening for Duluth. Col. R. M. Newport, land commissioner of the Northern Pacific, accompanied by his sob and by gentlemen interested in the railroad lands, left last evening by special car for a trip to Glendive, on the Yellowstone, intend ing to be absent until Saturday. Crop reports from the St. Paul & Manitoba line yesterday continued uniformly favorable. St. Joe reported that the wheat harvest would begia there in ten days, and from Fisher's Landing it was reported that grain cutting was begun yesterday morning. About 300 people from the Swedish Luther an church of Still water street, are to be taken to White Bear to-day, for a picnic, by the reg ular trains on the Bt. Paul & Duluth road. To-morrow the First Baptist church will send out a picnic party and the evening trains will be filled with people going to attend the band concert at Leip's pavilion. Mr. George A. Barr, late of Washington, D. C, has been appointed to superintend the construction of the Northern Pacific office building on Broadway. The building, which is to be made ready for occupancy about the first of June of next year, will front 65 feet on Broadway with a dopth of 156 feet, and be four 6tories above the basement. Homer E. Sargent, Esq., late general man* ager of the Northern Pacific, .arrived yester day from his home at Chicago and last even ing proceeded to Detroit and Fargo. The principal object of his journey is to arrange for his family spending the remainder of the season at Detroit Lake, where they enjoyed themselves very much last season. llic War Carried into Manitoba. The city council of Winnipeg was to have met Monday evening to take up on its second reading a by-law granting a bonus of $200,000 to the Canadian Pacific company for its proposed southwestern branch, from Winnipeg to the United States boundary line, but a quorum wes defeated by aldermen absenting themselves. These absen tees are in favor of an opposing proposition to give $200,009 to the Manitoba Southwestern company. This company is controlled from New York and it is asserted at Winnipeg by friends of the Canadian Pacific and Bt. Paui & Manitoba com panies that it is controlled in the interest of the Northern Pacific. If that be true the Win nipeg contest will be apt to embitter the pending contest in Minnesota and. Dakota be tween the St. P. & M. and N. P. companies. But in the Winnipeg fight the St. P. & M. has a decided advantage, from its intimate as sociation with the Canadian Pacific. This appeared, it is said, in a plain bint from Vice President Angus and General Manager Hill, who were in Winnipeg Monday, that if the city allied itself with the Northern Pacific, then the Canadian Pacific will not be built into Winnipeg, and will make a rival city by crossing the Red river at some other point. The city council will probably have to pass that by-law for the C P. branch. Superintendence of the St. P. & 3f. Line. Circular No. 4 from the office of the assist ant general manager of the St. Paul & Mani toba railway, dated the 10th and signed by Mr Manvel, read 3 as follows: "The following appointments and changes are made, to take effect Monday, July 18, 1881: "Mr. E. B. Wakeman, with headquarters at St. Piul, is appointed superintendent of trans portation, anu will have charge of the move ment of trains, distribution of engines and cars, and making of time schedules over the entire line. Division superintendents and others will report to and be subject to Mr. Wakeman's orders in all matters pertaining to this part of the service. "Mr. J. B. Rice, as division superintendent, will have charge of the line St. Paul to Fergus Falls. "Mr. A. Guthrie, as division superintendent, will have charge of the line Minneapolis junction to Breckinridge, including" the Brown's Valley branch and the Breckinridge extension. "Mr. C. O. Wheeler is appointed division superintendent, vice J. H. Sullivan resigned, with office at Fergus Falls, and will have charge of the Hues north of Fergus Falls, in cluding the branch from Breckinridge to Barnesville. " Mr. Q. F. Copeland, with office at Crook ston, is appointed train master for the lines north of Fergus Falls, and will be subject to the orders of the divis'on superintendent of the Northern division." The circular does not state the fact, but it is evident that Messrs. Rice and Guthrie will have their offices at Bt. Paul. TAvelif Cutting of Passenger Rates West. New York, July 19.— The war among the competing railways leading west still continues. To-day scalpers are sell ing tickets to Chicago for $9. Persons purchasing tickets to points farther west than Chicago, do not find it an easy mat ter to get a reduction en old prices. There seems to be no war of prices with in this State, the greatest reduction being on tickets to Chicago. Many persons are taking advantage of the war and are spending their vacations in "Western cities. Scalpers have no idea as t& when the war will cease. They are all adver tising selling tickets cheaper than any other person in New York. Some per sons claim they have bought tickets to Chicago to-day for $7.75. Navigation Note*. The river was on a stand yesterday at 6 feet 6 inches above low water mark, an improvement in the stage of water at the corresponding date last year of 1 foot and 3 inches. The Libbie Conger, of the Diamond Jo line, was ahead of time yesterday, arriv ing about 6 a. m. when not expected un til noon. She brought in 74 passengers, a barge of 75,000 brick from Dresbach, for Mr. Graves, contractor for (>. A. Bailey's new building, corner of Fifth and Rosabel streets, a large lot of oats, and a good miscellaneous freight. She left on her return at 12:30, with a small freight and 45 people. The next boat of the line will be Mary Morton, Thursday, at 10 a. m. The Saints line will have the White Eagle in to leave at 4 p. m. Thursday, to be followed Friday by the clipper Gem City and on Saturday by the Bright Light, a new boat of the line. The St. Iftmis Republican of Sunday mentions • the de parture of the Bright Light in the follow ing terms: "The new Bright Light backed out at 4p. m. yesterday on her first trip to St. Paul, full of passengers and with a big freight list." The St. Louis Republican of Monday has the following very complimentary no tice of the Gem City and her officers: "The great electric light steamer.Gem City, the queen and pride of the upper Mississippi, will arrive here from St.. Paul this evening and will start on her return trip at noon Tuesday from the St. Louis and St. Paul Packet Co.'s wharf boat.foot of Locust street. This charm ing steamer continues to grow in popularity each trip she makes, and it is almost the invar iable rule now that all her cabin is engaged be fore she reaches port. Part of this popularity is of course due to the fact that besides being one of the most elegantly appointed steamers afloat she is witbnut doubt the fastest ever seen above St. Louis, but it can be in a large measure attributed to the excellent corps of officers manning her, every one of whom has been especially selected for the position he fills. From the commander down, her officers are all gentlemen of larg experience, capable, polite and attentive; the very rousters on her deck seem to assimilate somewhat the charac ter of their superiors and appear to be of a rather better class than is usually found upon the river. They go about their duties quietly and cheerfully, and none of the pro fanity too commonly heard at the sack pile or freight heap Is . indulged in. Each man seems to thoroughly understand what is expected of him and to in telligibly perform his task without being driven and cursed as though he was less than human. Such is the state of the discipline preserved apoa the Gem City, rigid and exact ing though it may be, it is nevertheless mer ciJul, that to *ii'vel upon her is a positive pleasure and that this is appreciated by the traveling public is abundantly evidenced by the rush each week of those anxious to secure passage on her. Mr. James A. Lyon, the po lite general passenger agent of the St. Louis and St. Paul Packet line, can be found at his office on board the wharf-boat foot of Locust street at all hours of the day, and will assign staterooms and answer all questions." Pole Hatcher, first clerk of the Gem City, has quite a poetical turn of mind, as witness the following, clipped from the St. Louis Republican of Monday: Pole Hatcher, the genial, good-natured and attentive chief clerk of the clipper Gem City, telegraphs from Lake City as follows: "Gem City will arrive Monday evening, to leave Tuesday noon for St. Paul. Great enthusiasm still prevails at all the towns, the electric iiebt shining brightly every evening on the youth and beauty of this section." STURDY STALWARTS. They Still Hold the Key to the Situation at Albany — Lapham Four Votes Short of the Requisite Number — No Expecta tion of an Election To-Day. Albany, July 19. — Contrary to the prophecies of the half-breeds Lapham failed of election to-day. He came nearer it than before, however, having sixty eight votes, four short of an election. Conkling's twenty-eight men stick to him and threaten to prolong the contest as long as possible. They are now fighting for a change of candidates and would support a stalwart who was more to their taste than Lapham. The half-breeds will stick to their nominee, however, and un less the Democrats get disgusted and withdraw there is no knowing when the present one-half deadlock will end. SPECIAL ELECTIONS. The bill providing for holding special elections to fill the vacancies in Congress was, after slight amendments, ordered to a third reading. THE JOINT CONVENTION met at noon. The ballot for the short term resulted as follows: Lapham 68 Conkling 28 Potter 55 Woodford 1 Necessary to a choice, 72. The chair declared no choice made. Speaker Sharpe then moved to adjourn. Carried. NO ELECTION TO-DAY. Albany, July 19. — The indications are there will be no election to-morrow. The supporters of the administration do not look for it before Thursday. It requires the accession of three or four Conkhng ites, and it is not possible to find them as yet. Both sections are in good humor. They sit about the hotels together engag ed in social conversation on all topics, except that relating to the Senatorship. Some private consultations are held, but no Conklingites engage in them. STILLWATER. The street sprinkler finds plenty to do. Tozier's Ann river drive and the Tolo gotic drives are into the boom. They commenced cutting wheat yester day on Mr. Staples' Wisconsin farm. Where are those drinking places that the city council has been talking about? Quite a proportion of the three million which was hung on Apple river fall will come in. A new sidewalk will be laid from Mc- Kusick's block, Main street, to Com mercial avenue. Charlie Merry, Willie Bronson, Fred Doe and Geo. Morton will camp a week at Cornelian lake. Mr. McKusick believes in doing a thing well, as is evidenced by the stone sidewalk in front of his block. St. John's lodge No. 1, A. F. &A. M., has donated $50 to the brethren who suf fered in the late disaster at New Ulm. Johnny Johnson, the engineer of the city steamer, is making a steam whistle which will be placed on the Florence mill and used for a fire alarm. Several have been tried, but as yet none have proved a success. It is believed that this one will answer, as Mr. Johnson has maie several improvements not found in other whistles. Gillispie & Harper report the following log sales: Page, Dixon & Co., Dubuque, 140,000 feet; Renwick, Shaw & Co., Du buque, 400,000 feet; Quincy Lumber Co., Quincy, 111., 600,000 feet; Gales & Wight man, Port Byron, 500,000 feet; Dubuque Lumber JCo., 70,000 feet; Barkley & Co., Lansing, la., 600,000 feet; St. Croix Lumber Co., 100,000 feet; C. N. Clark, Dubuque, 200,000 feet. By the steamer Nina, 14 string raft to Gardner, Batchelder & Co., Lyons; and 8 strings to C. L. Coleman, by the Ruby; 14 strings V Marke Bradley to Taber & Co. A. R. McGill. [Stillwater Messenger.] Among the names prominently men tioned for the Republican nomination for governor is that of Hon. A. R. McGill, of St. Peter. Though older than Horace Austin or C. K. Davis, when these gen tlemen occupied the gubernatorial chair, Mr. McGill is a representative of the younger element of the Republican party — the men who became voters after the admissiom of Minnesota into the Union. He has never been mixed up in any crooked transactions, his public record and private life being without a blemish. No one in the State who has not occupied the chair is so thoroughly familiar with the minute details of the executive de partment, and should he be nominated and elected he will be as well fitted on the day of his inauguration to perform his duties as any of his competitors would be after a year or two of service. Mr. McGill is a clean man, and the interests of the State will be safe in his hands. He will not be the tool of any ring or corporation, but the faithful servant of the people and the zealous protector of their interests. MINNEAPOLIS NEWS Minneapolis O>N of the Glob*. The offlee ef the Mianeepells department of (be iuxx.T tLcai kM beta remove* t« Wo. : Ml Henae ■inaTeaue, : where • repfewnUttT* ' m always Ibe found frem T o'clock a. m. nnMl TiM *.;, *• Cem maolcaUons by telephone >ro»pay responded to;* ; J. B. BomnAV, Manager, MINNEAPOLIS GLOBE ' Open air concert this evening at Siyder's park, by : Dans', band. . , -,i *' : '- F. 8. Blodgett, {president of the board of public works of Milwaukee, is in the city. - The Light Infantry corps is looking for a new building in which to locate the armory. Freya lodge, I. O. G. T., will hold a regular meeting this evening at No. 125 Nicollet ave nue. :'■ ;;';; . , ■ . ; , * A regular meeting of the Temple of Honor will be held this evening at No. 251 Nicollet avenue. ; The committee from . the city council on public ground* and buildings and gas will meet this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Jim Rogers, the vagrant at the county jail made his escape from the yard in - which ■ he was engaged in breaking rocks. Reports come in from farmers dally of ' the discouraging depredations ! being, committed by the chinch tugs upon the vheat crop. ■ The Holley mills of the H inkle Brothers has been : shut down for ten clays so that the platform in front of the mill can be ■■ repaired. The Tabernacle picnic which ! should have occurred to-day, has been 'postponed one week, on account of the : death of J. • Henry Dean. . . . ; The subscription for the relief of the suffer ers from the New Ulm disaster swells with every hour, and it was thought would reach $1,500 last night. " ;.,: ,. ; v _ ;■" Mrs. Jennie Poole attempted te drown her earthly woes and misfortunes by jumping into the river, but the attempt was frustrate! by a friend, who rescued her. ( >c''»:i-'.. : • Capt. D. M. Gilmore has commenced work on a large building on Western avenue, near the railroad bridge, which is designed for a furniture manufactory. • :V^V' C. W. Johnson, ,' for the Tabernacle M. E. church, yesterday mailed to E. E. and G. G. Hook & Hastings, of Boston, aa order for a $4,0 jO pipe organ for the new church. John Scott reports that he lost a pocket book containing $850 at the Sixth Avenue hotel on Monday night. V Mr. Scott is a labor ing man, and the loss is a severe misfortune. - The foundation for the mammoth Hunting, ton block, corner of Washington avenue and First avenue north, is about completed, and a large crew of carpenters - has | begun work in putting in the ground floor. . The repairs on the 'dilapidated platform at the mills has at last been commenced. . It is little less than a miracle that no serious or fatal accident has occurred from permitting this broken platform to remain in the condi tion it has for the past two weeks. The total inventory of the Ovid Pinney estate, as per appraisement upon file jin the probate court, amounts to $212,186.48, of which some $187,791.93 is in personal prop erty, the balance being in real estate. Winthrop Young has been appointed administrator, with will annexed. On Monday night the Mendelssohns sere naded Miss Annie Louise Cary, who . has been for a week the guest of Miss Stephen son. The Mendelssohns were most cordially received by the charming lady and popular balladist. A delightful social and musical evening was the result, which will long be remembered by all who had the rare fortune to be present as one of the brightest and happiest occasions of their lives. : -• - RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE. James Griffin and Ellen Byrnes Arraigned on Complaint of Mrs. Sarah Griffin on Charge of Fornication— A , Counter Charge of Assault and Battery. For some time, Mrs. Sarah Griffin alleges that she has been exceedingly suspicious • of the morals of her husband, James Griffin. This state of affairs led to serious domestic in felicities, often raising a perfect tempest in the circle of the family hearthstone. The matter culminated last Saturday night. Mrs. Griffin, on that night, was determined either to positively confirm her suspicions or clearly vindicate the innocence of j her mascu line . affinity, to whom she I was ' unhappily mated: Accordingly she set herself in watch. She discovered her husband entering, as she believed, in a peculiar manner, a building on Hennepin I avenue. She < quietly followed him up the stairs. The upper stories of the build ing were occupied as sleeping rooms. Into one of these rooms ; Mr. G. entered. Af ter a few moments Mrs. Griffin called upon a lady, Mrs. Smith, whom she knew, t and who ..lived .in the sam c building, and asked her to kindly as sist her. A chair was produced and placed at the door through which Mr. Griffin had gone a few moments previously. Mrs. Smith sat in the chair while Mrs. Griffin climbed to the back of the chair ; and looked through the transom over the door. And then Mrs. Smith perched herself upon the chair and took an inspection of the interior of the room. \ What was transpiring at this critical moment with in the four walls of the little bedroom, ac cording to the evidence giver, upon the wit ness stand by these two women, in the mu nicipal court . yesterday, was • indeed all suf ficient to arouse the ire and indignation of a filial wife, and to cause the deepest blush of shame and consternation to mantle the face of any virtuous woman. . : • ' ; Mrs. Smith then unsuccessfully ! attempted to secure the door until a policeman could be called, but Mr. Griffin came out, and a per sonal tussle ensued between '.■ man and wife. A policeman was : summoned, and the. altercation, : which had by this time culminated between the wo men, Mrs. Griffin and Mrs. Byrnes, was ended. ■ ; " .■ '. : .Yesterday the whole business was ventilated in detail in the police court. The evidence adduced on the part of the State, substantiated the above facts: . - -> , 1. Griffin, bei?g sworn in his defense, denied the criminality above specified jin toto. .He acknowledged being in the room, but claimed to have gone there to meet a male friend whose name he refused ,' to divulge to s the Court. At times, under a sharp cross- examination by the county attorney, he appeared badly con fused and slightly contradictory as regards time and events. -. ; : . : ; ; . ; •: ; .- Mrs. Byrnes also was sworn in defense. She stoutly denied ; criminality with Griffln. She Raid she was a widow, did cooking, washing, and odd jobs for' a livelihood. In answer to the question for whom she was working on the 16th, the day of the trouble, she declined to answer. The court ruled that it was in order that she answer. She said first that it was at the : St. James, and finally acknowl edged - that it was .at Madame Dunn's. She said she was not at nil surprised ;at being called upon at night by Griffin, as her "young man" I had ; told her he was coming there to meet him. - ''.'.'■; .• : > ij ; ■■" ■:■■'. •>' •' ;:'''■■■:■'> ■'■'■ Now, Griffin • had ■ sworn i that . the man he went to this woman's bedroom to meet was a married man. Mrs. Byrnes - said he was her young ; man, and ' she positively knew him to be unmarried. ; N ' <> : V\" •'.* > ■: • The evidence was all taken yesterday after noon and ■ the ease will , be summed' up and » a verdict rendered this morning , at . 9 o'clock. As the parties were leaving the court room, as a counter charge, a summons was j sworn out by Mrs. Byrnes i and 1 served upon Mrs.' Griffin to appear at 9 o'clock this morning and answer to a charge of committing an assault upon the person of Mrs. Byrnes. "•: ■■."■■■■ ~Vu^ Board of Equalization . The county board of equalization held another meeting in the office of the county auditor yesterday. A large amount of business was transacted. The assessment returns from the various towns throughout the county were literally torn to pieces and the assessments so altered and amended that the assessors themselves would now necessarily fail to rccoguize them. In those of one township the household furni ture was increased 700 per cent. Others were raised or lowered from 5 to 100 per cent. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. Communications Received and Referred— Appropriations Made for Improvements of County Roads, etc. An adjourned meetiig of the board of coun ty commissioners was held at the courthouse yesterday forenoon. A communication was received from Cyrus L. Snydfr, superintendent of the poor of the city of Minneapolis, in reference to a pauper named Nathaniel Page. Laid on the table. Commissioner Brown off«red the following resolution: Resolved, That an appropriation of $24 be made to send Nathaniel Page to Portland, Me. Adopted. The following was adopted: Resolved, That there be and is hereby ap propriated the sum of $50, to be expended on the Maple Grove and Champion toad, in the town of Dayton, that town having appropri ated a like amount. A ctmmumcation from H. B. Griffin, in re lation to the road at Wayzata, was placed on file. Pat Ryan presented a bill of $334.11 for bal ance due on his contract for jail extension. Referred to committee on claims. W. D. Mitchell made an application for an abatement of $208 valuation of the northeast quarter of northeast quarter of section 7, town 29, range 24. Referred to committee on taxes. A communication was received from O. C. Meeker, chairman of supervisors of Excelsior, asking an appropriation of $50 to bo expended upon the Excelsior and Glencoe road, the supervisors having appro priated a like amount. Referred to committee on roads and bridges. Commissioner Lydiard offered the following resolution : Resolved, That the sum of $50 be and is hereby appropriated to be expended on the Excelsior road. The board adjourned to meet on August Ist. THE STRIKERS. The Employes of the Minneapolis <£ St. Louis Railroad Still Hold Out, and No Trains are Moving. About forty men in the yards of the Min neapolis & St. Louis road, comprising all the switchmen, have joined in the strike for higher wages. As a result not a freight car was moved yesterday. The striks has certainly assumed most formidable pro portions. The effect is very serious upon the railroad company and disastrous to the millers, as, with the exception of a few cars of wheat which were taken up to the mills in the moin ing by a train dispatcher, with the assist ance of a few brakeman, not a car of wheat can be pulled to the mills. The Humboldt and Galaxy mills have shut down. A large number of wagons have been employed, however, to haul wheat to the mills, but, do their ut most, they cannot sapply a circumstance. It was rumored yesterday that the strikers endeavored to induce the employes of at least one other road to join them, but the attempt was unsuccessful happily. The company hope to get into working order again to-day. THE COURTS. Probate Court. [Before Judge Rea.j In the matter of the estate of Charles A Root, minor, order made authorizing guar dian's sile of real estate. In the matter of the estate of Augusta A. Mitchell, deceased, petition for licence to sell real estate filed. Hearing set for September sth. Municipal Court. [Before Judge Cooley.] Joseph Welsh plead guilty to the charge of drunkenness and then paid $5. N. Anderson, Michael Rouse, A. Chisolm, and Robert Crockey plead guilty to the charge of drunkenness and were fined $5 each, which they paid. A. Gardner was arraigned for getting boozy, but the judge took compassion upon hint and discharged him with one of his pro verbial reprimands. Henry Bmlth pleid guilty, said he was drunk, and it required a five dollar note to get him out of serving a score of days' sentence breaking rocks. The State vs. James Griffin and Ellen Byrnes. Fornication. Continued until 9 o'cloct this morning. The State ts. Sarah Griffin. Assault and battery. Continued until 9 o'cloc k this morn ing. Judge Cooley's patience was utterly ex hausted yesterday afternoon. The noiee and commotion incident to repairing the Brackett block recently damaged by fire, so seriously interferes with the transactions of the court, that the judge said another court room must be provided until this work was completed. Personal Mention. J. F. Bross, Jr., of Grand Rapids,, is spend ing a brief time in this city. W. H. Thurston, the popular oyster man of Milwaukee, is looking over our thriving city. Misses Lillie and Mary Battineau left for a pleasure trip to Duluth yesterday. Thty will remain there several weeks, eujoying the cool ing breezes of Lake Superior. ENGLISH GRAIN MARKETS. Growing Crops Injured by the Tropioal Heat— The Market* Quiet With Prices Steady. London, July 18. — The Mark Lane Ex press in its weekly review of the grain trade says: A week of tropical heat has brought on crops rapidly toward harvest. Wheat is very good. The ears are gen erally short and some insect injuries are beginning to be spoken of. The heat will doubtless prematurely ripen wheat. Barley is certainly in want of rain. In the northern and eastern midland coun ties the oat crop may be regarded as lost. Deliveries of home wheat during the week have been insignificant, only 824 quarters having reached London during that period. Values unchanged. The barley and oat trade is totally un changed. Foreign breadsluffs in ample supply and trade, despite the weather, has been firm but extremely quiet. Stocks are depleted to an unusual extent, and sellers have an advantage on spot. Tho finest qualities are scarce and imports are diminished. Buyers operate on a small scale. It may be said a forward trade at present scarcely exists. Of twenty-one coast cargoes which have arrived during the week, three were sold. The floating contingent has been decreased 130,000 quarters. Fourth Term. [Morris, (Stevens Co.) Tribune.] Gen. Jennison asserts that the "move ment for a fourth term for Governor Pillsbury, is as certain but not as open as that of two years ago." The dead body of Thomas Barrick was found in Pacific avenue, Chicago, early yesterday morning. The man is suppl ed to have been pushed down the sta'ra by a colored prostitute with whom lie had a quarrel Monday night, and in the fall broke his neck. Piles are frequently preceded by a sen.n of weight in the back, loins and lower p.irt of the abdomen, causing the patient to 6iijv<>ft) he has some affection of the kidneys or nrigh boring organs. At times symptoms of imii gestion are present, as flatulency, uneasiness of the stomach, etc. A moisturelike ].er<| i ration, producing a very disagreeable lichius, particularly at night after getting warm in bed, is a very common attendant. Intern*!, external and* itching piles yield at once <»n ihe application of Dr. Bosanko's Pile Renwdy, which acts directly upon the parts affected, ab sorbing the Tumors, allayinjr the intense iv h ing and effecting a immanent cure where nil other remedies have failed. Do not delay until the drain of the system produces perm.u»i t disability, but try it and be cured. 1 r<>- M cents. Ask your druggist for it, and it wm you cannot, obtain it of him, we will sei.ti it prepai?, on receipt of price. Address Tin Bo sar ko Medicine Co., Pi qua, Ohio.