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A NATIONAL 101. THE GREAT PROGRESS AND EARLY COMPLETION OF THE NORTH ERN PACIFIC. Th rough Trains by Next July—The City of Livingston at the Gate of the. Moun tains—lts Great Natural Advantages and Its Wonderful Growth— Coal, Gold, Sliver, and Timber Make the Basis for the Coming City. • Winona Republican. J The rapid progress of the Northern Pa cific railway and its potent influence upon the trade and prosperity of the upper Mis sissippi valley has been several times re ferred to in the columns of the Republican. In connection with the growth and pros perity of Winona, as well as other cities in the valley, that influence can scarcely be too greatly emphasized by our % citizens. We are certain to have at least two impor tant connections with this the greatest .of all the transcontinental highways and the commerce which must inevitably flow be tween this prolific valley when the greatest river of the Northern hemisphere shall have been connected with the greatest ocean on the earth, by a railway with the shortest line and the easiest grades, must surpass the calculations even of the most sanguine. Let it be remembered that this great valley is the garden of a continent, while the mountain ranges to the westward contain the mineral bonanzas of the world These two prime factors are, therefore, the complements of each other. The miners and mountaineers must have the grain, the pork, the tobacoo, and the cotton goods of the valley; while the denizens of the valley, the builders of great cities, of palatial steamers, aud colossal railway lines, and the producers .of all the staples of life; must have tWs silver, gold, copper,iron and coal that have .umbered for ages in the rock-ribbed hills which flank the shores of the ocean that separates and yet unites the Orient and Occident — ancient and the modern civilization. The exchanges of products which must take place between the millions of people placed in these two complementary physical and social rela tions,'cannot be otherwise than immense in their volume. And when we take into account the fact that the ocean currents, those vast "marine rivers" which bear upon their bosoms the commerce of two great hemispheres, impinge upon our coast at the points selected as the western termini of the North. Pacific .ystem, we shall only begin to grasp the problem of the re lations which must be 'established and maintained between the people of the Mis sissippi valley and the teeming populations of our western slope and the vast steppes and fluvial basins of the Asiatic continent, whose rivers in turn pour their floods of wealth, as well is of water, into the great Pacific reservoir. It is now definitely announced that the final connection between the eastern and western sections of the Northern Pacific will be consummated by July 1, 1883, and that through trams will be running by the Ist of September following. A most im portant step, marking the progress of the work, and indicating the farsighted sa gacity of the gentlemen now in charge ci this enterprise, has recently been taken in the location at the "Gate of the Mountains" of the future city of Livingston, Montana. This place is at the last crossing of the far-famed Yellowstone river. A few facts concerning the location and its surround ings, its possibilities and the comprehen sive and liberal plans of the company re specting it, will doubtless prove of inter est to our readers. V,.,, j;.." >-y Livingston is situated upon the main line of the road at its junction with the Na tional park branch, now under construction and to be completed as rapidly as men and money can effect it. It is expected to be finished by Jnlj 1, next. The town is located upon a beautiful plateau that slopes gently from the base of the moun tains to the riv.r, at the margin of which the ground is from fifteen to thirty feet above the water line. In the immediate vicinity there are inexhaustible supplies of iron, coal, gold and silver, with timber, principally pine and fir, on the slopes of the mountains. Spur tracks are being run to the coal deposits,which are distant only four or five miles. The only lime stone deposits between Lake Superior and the mountains, on the line of this road, a dis tance of mora than 1,000 miles, are found in abundance here. The manufacture of lime must therefore become a most im portant industry. Rich quartz and placer mines are found in abundance on the south, the latter in Emigrant gulch. Livingston is located in the great bend of the Yellow stone, where the river, from an almost di rect northerly, turns to an easterly course. The lower or third canon is only thirteen miles from the town site. The scenery here is sublime and picturesque in the ex treme. From the east, Livingston is ap proached on the railway at a grade of only twenty-six feet to the mile. This is the western terminus of the Yellowstone di vision, and the eastern terminus of the mountain division of the railway. From this point the road ascends through Boze man pas» to Baseman, thirty miles distant, at a grade of considerably more than 100 feet to the mile. The temporary line now being constructed is said to run <_n a grade of more than 200 feet to the mile. But this will be greatly reduced in the perma nent structure. The Yellowstone National park lies due south of Livingston, and of course this will become the halting and resting place for thousands of tourists from all parts of the world who will flock to this, the great est of the world's wonderlands. The river here dashes down from its mountain alti tudes at a descent of fifteen or twenty feet to the mile; the water is cold, clear as crys tal,and well stocked with the finest of trout. -Before the town was laid ont, it is stated, there were 1,000 people living upon the site in tents and other temporary structures awaiting an opportunity to locate. It is estimated that there will be at least 5,000 people upon the ground in the early spring. _ The company are planning round houses, machine and repair shops, station build ings, etc., on a large and liberal scale. Three hundred acres have been reserved by the company for its own uses. It is in timated that blast furnaces, rolling mills,' etc., will be the things of the near future. The happy combination of agricultural, grazing and timber lands, iron, coal, lime stone, gold, silver and'placer mines; the travel to and from the National park; the shops, furnaces, mills and foundries nec essary to meet the demands of this colos sal enterprise; ■ the charming scenery and the healthful atmosphere, all conspire' to point to this as one of the future large cities of the "new Northwest" "The road is no,, completed to Livingston, and regu lar trains will soon commence running to that point. Work is being pushed with the utmost vigor upon the tunnels, and a few months hence we shall witness the comple tion of the third and the greatest of our transcontinental lines. • Its effect upon the fortunes of the Northwest will therefore soon become a matter of common obser vation and experience. The question is whether we shall be ready to meet the. de mands which will be made upon us for onr just proportion of the business that will knock at our doors. . OFFICIAL. ' Froceelin^ofßoariof PalilicWs. '/■';.. Begnlar Meeting. V . St. Paul, Dec. 1, 1882. : Board met at 2 p.m. Present: Messrs. Barrett, Hoyt, Koch, Peters, Terry and Mr. President. -. Minutes ofthe 24th, 27th, 28th and 29th of November read and approved. Written objections were i received from W. H. Cook as to amount assessed against lot 10, block 13, Terry's addition, for change of grade on Seventh street After due consideration it was ordered that a re duction of $10 be made in said assessment on said lot Chas. Brache ; presented a communica tion claiming to be the lessee of lot 2, block 10, Sinnen's subdivision, of part of block 10, Lyman Dayton's addition, and asking that the award of damages to the owner of said lot for change of grade on Seventh and other streets be paid to him as such lessee. Placed on file. August Beimer presented a communica tion claiming to be the lessee of lot 30, blook 10, Sinnen's subdivision of part of bio* 10, Lyman Dayton's addition, and asking that the award of damages to the owner of said lot for change of grade on Seventh and other streets, be paid to him as such lessee. Placed on file. The following was adopted, to-wit: Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Board that sidewalks cannot be properly laid during cold weather when the ground is frozen, and it is hereby respectfully recommended to the Common Council that no more sidewalk orders be sent to this Board under the present contract. The following resolution ! was adopted, to-wit: ' ",■•'■■'<.,-. Resolved, That the President of this Board, the Mayor, City Attorney and City Engineer, be respectfully committed the matter of ascertaining of the railroad au thorities interested just what may be ex pected of, and promised by them in the matter of the projected Seventh street im provement over Trout Brook, and Phalen Creek valleys. .'._■ -:, .';..;'.""': The Clerk was directed to give the first assessment notice for Pleasant avenue ex tension. ;.-;% Pursuant to due notice and the adjourn ment thereunder, the matter of making correction in the assessment arising from the opening and extension of Eighth street from Cedar to Wabashaw street, as to lot 6, block 20, Robert & Randall's addition,in the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, came up, and after due consideration said assess ment was corrected to read as follows, to wit: Mary Mulligan: That part of lot 6, block 20, Robert & Randall's addi tion, lying north of Guerin's line west of Randall's line $100 W. F. Davidson: That part, of lot 6, block 20, Robert & Randall's addi tion, lying east of Randall's line.. . 225 Merritt and Langevin: That part of lot 6, block 20, Robert & Randall's addition, lying south of Guerin's line and west of Randall's line .... 385 In the matter of the objections of Pat rick Mullane to amount of award to lot 11, block 11, Branson's addition, for change . of grade on Seventh and other streets, the Engineer reported that he esti mated the cost of making said premises in as good condition after said change is perfected as before, to be $1,025, which re port was accepted. Pursuant to due notice and the adjourn ments thereunder the matter of the con firmation of the assessment for change of grade: On Seventh street, from Kittson to Min nehaha street, On Maria avenue, from Sixth street to Eighth street, -; ■?■-, '■'-:": ■"-• On Hope street,-from Sixth street to Seventh street, On Margaret street, from Arcade to Greenbriar street '::- On Beech street, from Arcade to Mendo ta street, And on Bradley street from Wood ward to south line of block 13 and 14, Brunson's addition— up, when it was made to appear that the improvements assessed to Nicho las Wilner on Margaret street should be assessed to F. Knauft, owner of the ad joining property, which was so ordered, and it being made to appear that the dam ages to improvements and lot 11, block 11 Brunson's addition (Patrick Mullane own-, er) on Seventh street should be increased to $1,025, and the benefits increased to $225, it was so ordered, and it being made to appear that benefits to lot 10, block 13, Terry's addition on Seventh street should be reduced $10, it was so ordered.and after due consideration, said assessment as above corrected, was confirmed. Yeas 6; nays 0. Pursuant to due notice, the matter of making and completing the assessment for constructing a sewer on Rondo street from end of so-«_lled "Rice street sewer" to point 425 feet west of Louis street came up, and was duly completed, and ordered entered of record, and the Clerk directed to give the confirmation notice. Pursuant to due notice and the adjourn ment thereunder, the matter of making and completing the assessment for grading Beanmont street from Bedford to De Soto street came up, and was duly completed, and ordered entered of record, and the Clerk directed to give the confirmation notice. &«$y~?C~&% .:.*s_/_/ Pursuant to due notice and the adjourn ments thereunder, the matter of making and completing the assessment for grading De Soto street from Collins street to right of way of St Paul, Minneapolis & Manito ba Railroad company, came up, and was duly completed and ordered entered of rec ord, and the clerk directed to give the con firmation notice. ' :■.. _.;£^'i*,_-«! ..:.;. Pursuant to due notice and the adjourn ments thereunder, the matter of making and completing the re assessment for opening an alley through block 30, Rice & Irvine's addition, came up, and was ad journed to the Bth inst, at 2 p. m. .-v i. Pursuant to due notice the matter of confirmation of the assessment for opening and extension of Thirteenth street from Cedar to Wabashaw street came np, when on motion all notices of assessment hereto fore given in said matter were annulled, and the Clerk directed to give new notice of assessment • .i_ _..•._". In the matter of the order of • Conncil to Board for sidewalk on north side of Kate street from St Peter to Ohio street the same was ordered returned to. Conncil for correction. John Fabbikgtoh, President R. L. Gobmah, Board of Public Works. Adjourned Meeting:. St. Paul, Dec. 2,1882. .Board met at 7 p. m. pursuant to ad journment of Ist inst t - Present—-Messrs. Barrett Hoyt, Koch, Peters, Terry and Mr. President The Engineer having reported plans and estimates of costs for paving Washington, Wabashaw, Minnesota, Jackson, Sibley, Broadway, Third, Fourth, Seventh and Eighth streets, the Board ordered the fol lowing reports sent to the . Council, to-wit: To the Common Council of the City of St. Paul: :'"-■■. . The Board of Public Works have had un der consideration the resolution or order of the Common Conncil approved i Nov. 13, 1882, relative to the paving of Washington street from Third street to Seventh street , with cedar blocks and granite curbs, and ._______>. . ... *__aa_Hq_T______A__*___u_* *_ _._._ _ THE ST. PAUL DAILY SATURDAY MOROTNtf; DECEMBER 16 1882. having investigated the proposed improve ment, respectfully report that said im provement -is not necessary and proper. Yeas— nays, 0. To ' the Common Council of the City -of St.Paul: The Board of Public Works have had under consideration the resolution or order of the Common Council, approved Nov. 13, 1882, relative to the paving of Waba shaw street, from Third street to Iglehart street, with cedar blocks and granite curbs, and having investigated the. proposed im provement, respectfully report, that said improvement is necessary and proper,! from Third street to College avenue, that tho estimated expense thereof is §25,150," one-half of which need . not be"' paid into the City Treasury before the con tract is let; that real estate to be assessed therefor can be found benefited to the extent of the. damages, costs and ex penses necessary ; to be incurred thereby, that said improvement is not asked for by a petition of a majority of the owners of property to be assessed therefor, but we herewith send a plan or profile of said im wrovement, and an order for your adop tion, if you desire us to make the im provement. Yeas, 6; nays, 0. To the Common Council of the City of St Paul: , The Board of Public Works have had under consideration the resultion or order of the Common [ Council, approved Nov. 13, 1882, relative to the paving of Minne sota street, from Third street to Eighth street, with cedar blocks and granite curbs, and having investigated the pro posed improvement, respectfully report that said improvement is not - necessary and proper. Yeas, 6: nays, 0, To the Common Council of the City of St Paul: The Board of Public Works have had under consideration the resolution or order of the Common Council, .approved Nov. 13,1882, relative to the paving of Jack son street, from Seventh street to Tenth street, with cedar blocks and granite curbs, and having investigated the proposed improvement, respectfully re port that said improvement is necessary and proper, from Seventh to Ninth street that the estimated expense therof is $5,600, one-half of which need not be paid into the City Treasury before I the contract is let; that real estate to be assessed therefor can be found benefited to the extent of the damages, costs and ex penses necessary to be incurred thereby, that said improvement is not asked for by a petition of a majority of the owners of property to be assessed therefor, but we herewith send a plan or profile of said im provement, and an order for your adop tion, if you desire us to make the improve ment Yeas 6; .nays 0. To the Common Council of the City of St. Paul: The Board of Public Works have had under consideration the resolution or. order of the Common Council approved Nov. 13,1882, relative to the paving of Sib ley street, from Fifth street to Eighth street with cedar blocks and granite curbs, and having investigated the pro posed improvement, respectfully report that said improvement is necessary and proper from Fifth to Seventh street; that the estimated expense thereof is $7,020, one-half of which need not be paid into the City Treasury before the contract is let; that real estate to be assessed therefor can be found benefited to the extent of the damages, costs and expenses necessary to be incurred thereby; that said improve ment is not asked for by a petition of a majority of the owners of property to be assessed therefor, but we herewith send a plan or profile of said improvement, and | an order for your adoption, if you desire us to make the improvement. Yeas 6; nays 0. To the Common Council of the City of St. Paul: The Board of Public Works have had under consideration the resolution or order of the Common Council, approved Nov. 13, 1882, relative to the paving of Broadway street, from Third street to Grove street, with cedar blocks and granite curbs, and having investigated the proposed improve ment respectfully report that said im provement is necessary and proper from Third to Tenth street, that the estimated expense thereof is $24,350, one-half of which need not be paid into the City Treas ury before the contract is let; that real es tate to be assessed therefor can be found benefited to the extent of the damages, costs and expenses necessary to be in curred thereby, that said improvement is not asked for by a petition of a majority of the owners of property to be assessed therefor, but we herewith send a plan or profile of said improvement, and an order for your adoption, if you desire us to make the improvement. Yeas 6; nays 0. To the Common Council of the City of St. Paul: . The Board of Public Works have had under consideration the resolution or order of the Common Council, approved Novem ber 13,1882, relative to the paving of Third (3d)street from Wacouta street to Broadway street, with cedar blocks and granite curbs, and having investigated the proposed improvement, respectfully report that said improvement is necessary and proper,that the estimated expense thereof is $5,500, one half of which need not be paid into the City Treasury before the con tract is let; that real estate to be assessed therefor can be found benefited to the ex tent of the damages, costs and expen e^ necessary to be incurred thereby, that _a d improvement is not asked Cor by a petition of a majori ty of the owners of property to be assess ed therefor, but we herewith send a plan or profile of said improvement and an or der for your adoption, if you desire us to make the improvement. Yeas, 6; nays, 0. To the Common Council of the City of St. Paul: The Board of Public Works have had under consideration the resolution or or der of the Common Council approved Nov. 13,1882, relative to the paving of Fourth (4th) street, from Jackson street to Waba shaw street, with cedar blocks and granite curbs, and having investigated the pro posed improvement, respectfully report that said improvement is necessary and proper, from Jackson to St - Peter street that the - estimated expense thereof. ii $12,600, one-half of which need not be paid into the City Treasury,before the contract is let, that real estate to be assessed there for can be found benefited to the extent of the damages, costs and expenses necessary to be incurred thereby, that said improve ment is not | asked { for by a petition cf a majority of the owners of property to be assessed therefor, bnt we herewith send a plan or profile of said ■ improvement I and an order for your adoption, if you desire us to make the improvement Yeas 6; nays 0. To the Common Conncil of the City of St -Paul: ; •" '- -- ■ : ;•-■■;■; The Board of Public Works have had under consideration the resolution or order of the Common Councibapproved Nov. 13, 1882, relative to the paving of . Seventh j (7th) street from Jackson street to Fort street,, with cedar blocks and granite J curbs, and having investigated the pro- l posed . improvement respectfully report j that said improvement is necessary and proper, 1 that the estimated expense thereof is $33,300, one-half of which need not be paid into the City Treasury before the contract is let; that real estate to be as sessed therefor can .. be found benefited to - .the. extent, * of. the damages, costs and expenses necessary to be /incurred .thereby,-that said improve^ ment is not asked for by a petition of a majority of the l- owners:, of :pr operty to be assessed therefor, bat we herewith send a ; plan •or pr. file of said improve ment ana order *or your adoption^'if jou desire us to make the improvement, Ye.is: 6; nays 0. •''■:>";.'■ C.':-'-.*.<. To the Common Council of the City - of St. Paul: ....--. ..,-. ;y The Board of ; Public Works have ; had under consideration the resolution or * or der of . /the Common Council," approved Nov. 13, 1882, relative to . the . paving •' of Eighth (Bth) street,'"from-: Kit!son street to Wabashaw street, with cedar blocks and j granite curbs and haying investigated the proposed improvement, .. respectfully re port that < said improvement is not neces sary and proper. Yeas 6; na,.so. Adjourned to meet tlie 41 h iv.... at 2. p. m.' . - John Faebington, President.- JJ.LGoß____.,Cle_k Board of Public Works, Adjourned Meeting. . ■ St. Paul, Dec. 4,1882. Board met at 2p. ml, pursuant to ad journment of 2d inst Present: Messrs. Hoyt, Koch, Peters, Terry and Mr. President. Absent: Mr. Barrett (excused.) A communication was received from Michael O'Brien, contractor for Fort street paving, claiming that his • contract is fully I completed and asking that he be allowed a final estimate. Referred to the Engineer for report of facts.. . ' .:.:V-..;;. A communication was received from H. P. Upham for himself and James J, Hill, claiming to be erroneously assessed for grading Ninth street, between Jackson street and Broadway. Referred to Engineer for report of size of lots and price of land. _ .i-S:>_ : / In the matter of the complaints of M !B. Farrell, contractor for grading alley in block 31, St. Paul proper, and John Clonau, contractor for grading University avenue, asking to have the fines on these respective contracts refunded to them, on the ground that they .were de layed by the engineering department the City Engineer reported that their delays were in no way caused by any act of the engineering department. .TT Accepted and placed en file. In the matter of tho assessment paid by numerous persons for sewer, built in 1872. on Fifth street, from Franklin to Seventh street, the Engineer reported that said sewer was of no use in the system of sew ers lately built. '>"•.! Accepted and placed on file. The Engineer having . submitted plan and estimate of cost,when the following re port was ordered sent to the Council, to wit: To the Common Council of the City of St. Paul: • ' . The Board of Public Works have had under consideration the resolution or order of the Common Council, approved No vember 22, 1882, relative to the grading'of Claghorn street, from Thomas street to Minnehaha street, and having investigated the proposed improve ment, respectfully report thai said im provement is necessary and proper, that the estimated expense thereof is $5,040, one-half of which need not be paid into the City Treasury before the contract is let; that real estate to be assessed therefor can be found benefited to the extent of the damages, costs and expenses necessary to be incurred thereby, that said improve ment is not asked for by a petition of a majority of the owners of property to be assesssed therefor, but we herewith send a plan or profile of said improvement, and an order for your adoption, if you desire us to make the improvement. Yeas, 5; nays 0. .' ■;._; The following pay rolls, estimates and bills were examined and allowed, to wit: Pay rolls of Engineer (street and sewer department), 18 employes, for month of November, 1882. $1,182.83. Pay rolls of Inspectors, 9 employes, for month of November, 1882, $501.25. ... Pay roll of men employed in cleaning and repairing sewers, 9 employes, for month of November, 1882, $26135. © Pay roll of City Engineer of men em ployed to complete Pleasant avenue, Forbes and Ramsey street sewers, 9 em ployes, $148.16. v~= ■ Pay roll of men employed in cleaning and repairing streets, S3 employes, for month of November, $2,900.90. Estimate No. 6 and final, Canada and Pearl street sewers. Arthur Mullen, con tractor, amount due si '37.80. Estimate No. 8, supplementary to No. 7 and final, Exchange - sir .oi ■.■.-. John Mullen, contractor, amount duo $.72. Estimate No. 3, Summit avenue --.prink ling, Warren Carpenter, contractor, amount due §77.91%. i ..Vfeji);;. Estimate No. 7, Fort street paving, Michael O'Brien, contractor, amount duo $2,861.55. • Estimate No. 7, sidewalks, Peter Berkey, contractor, amount due $6,350.35. Estimate No. 5, Rondo street sewer, James Waters, contractor, amount due $1,109.25. Estimate No. C and final, Mcßoal street sewer, Mullen & Monrnin, contractors, amount due $522.50. Estimate No. 2 and .final, Minnesota street 'gutters, M. 15. Farrell contaretor, amount due $214. :. .v -" Bill of Geo. W. ..wood of $84.15, re pairing first span of .Wabashaw.; street bridge. _-,H._ ,^ji.-S-.j --;-• _i— Bill of same of $112.14, repairs of sec and span of Wab haw .treet bridge. Bill of same of $195.43, for repairs of trestle approach to Mississippi river bridge for September, 1882. Bill of same of $147.87, for repairs of trestle approach] to Mississippi river bridge for October, 1882. gjjjßillof same of $188.64, for repairs to fifth or Island span of Mississippi river bridge. < Bill of same of $54. inspection of Mississippi bridge, (work done in Septem ber, 1882. __*>._.""■_," .;.-;_ - Bill of John Martin* Co. of $203.62,: lumber for First ward for November," 1882. Bill of same of $26.97, lumber for Sec ond ward, November, 1882. Bill of same of $74.70, lumber for Third ward tor November,*lBB2. : . , Bill of John Martin .£. Co., of $266.32, lumber for Fourth ward for . November, 1882. - Bill fit.J ohn Martin _. Co., of $372.70, Lumber for Fifth ward for ' November, -1882. . -.: -■'■ '■■■: ■'■• ■ ,-• Bill of John Martin & Co.. of $24.64. lumber _• . Sixth ward, for: November, 1882. ;..;-,.....: __■•: .'" Bill of George, Mitseh of $1.30, repairs and filing for Bctob_r and November, 1882.- ' ; ' ■ ' ' : ••; Bill of George Mitseh of' $3.20, repairs,' sharpening and filing from October 28 • to December 1,1882, inclusive. Bill of Robinson St Carey of $4.43, seventy-six pounds' of pig lead, November 29,1882. ■'* --•-'-:■:■ -- y ■ '• -. ■.;■ Bill of Robinson & Carey of $4.66,' picks and handles, November 23, 1882. '•''". Bill of St. Paul Foundry'and 'Manufac taring I company *of " f 3.66,. manhole lid, I November 15, 1882. -_-. . '*..'._".-._ -'- . Bill of St. Paul Foundry and Manu factoring company of $3.66, manhole lid," November 16;'1882." ; "r: ' , ! ;;' " Bill of Breuer * Rhodes of $29.75,; nails for November 1882. * ":[ "."•"" ,' :'" ,Bill of Breuer'&'Rhodes of $21.50,'. ______ and sledge handle for November, 1882. '• Bill of Bennett & Kingsburry of 50 cents, fence nail_l'',__^M^|l^^jgiig^^ i i]l)^*/Mi_te * Bill of L. Burnham of $38, market house sidewalk. ' .'. Bill of Jas. S." Burns of &35.sewer brie k, June 9,1882. . :V-V. ; : . ;.:- ■_•;• ■--■.' ••;';j Bill of Peter Kerst of $5, iron tops and belts for steam roller. . : : -' ■ Bill of J. J. ■ Palmer • of $49.30 ; paving crossing of Broadway and Seventh street with cedar bl.'HJks." "• _ . _ Bill of Louis N. Scott of $8, cement, Nov. 17, 1882. .. '■;':-".- ; '.-- r:.-. ...:>_ ■;'_ -.Bill of Michael Cram of $11.40, sharpen ing tools for" November. 1882.' , " Bill of Thomas Riley of ; §16.50, repair ing gutters on Fort street. 1 Bill of F. Knanft of ... $9.85, _ails, etc., from Oct 28th to Nov. 23 T 1682, inclusive. .Bill of J. G. Duggan __ / Bro. of $3.50, hydrant wrench, etc.. Nov. 3, 1882. ' a * Bill of J. G. Duggan & Bro. of $3.50, hydrant wrench and spanner combined, Oct 24,1882. -; Bill of; F. G. Draper"; St Co., of $2.32, grindstone, etc., Nov. 11, 82. - Bill of Mark Costello of $132 37, material and work in Engineer's office, for July, 1882. \ ■■-; " ; : .... :-:<-":,,. ..... >.: Bill of McMasters & Getty of $1, bluing solution, City Engineer's office,. Nov. .4, 1882.-. ; '■...;; Bill of Northwestern Telephone com pany of ,$4, rent 'of instrument in Engi neer's office for November, 1882. Bill of A. J. Cooper of $50, connecting Capt Barney's sewer with Seventh street " Placed on file. . . '.ir. 1 Bill of L. W. Rundlett of $50, use of tran_it and level ten months. „ J.z'. '..■ '■ Referred to ■ Second and N Third ward members. Adjourned. _.»''." John Faebington, President R. L. Gob__an, Clerk Board of Public Works ! What the Lord Coulden't Do. ! [New York Tribune] Here is tin old anecdote, .very familiar many years ago, and old enough to be new to many of this generation, which was a re gular Thanksgiving night stand-by. No gathering about the fire ever separated without it being told. It ran somthing in this way: A new railway had been opened \ through a bleak and unsettled section of ! country, and had been in operation only a ! short time when a heavy snow began fall ing and soon completely blockaded the road, stopping the train with its * single passenger car far from any place of habi- ! tation. There were a dozen or more travel ers, but as the prospect of relief within a few hours was good they were taking the unpleasant situation calmly. Among them was a tail, lank, lay preacher, whose coun tenance was chiefly remarkable for a prefer- : naturally targe mouth. Soon after the train came to a standstill he arose at the forward end of the car, and with his bland est professional smile began: -Now breth- '< run and sisters, we've got to stay,here shut up together for an hoar or two so let us make the best of it. I say brethren and sisters—ain't that so? We'ereall Christians, ain't wo? Of course we are. Now let us have a little experience meeting hero. Why not? We all love the Lord, don't we? Of course we do. Well, les talk about Him a ! little. To begin with, we all believe there's j nothing the Lord couldn't do if he wanted towe all believe that don't we.*' At this point a green-looking countryman, who had been watching the smiling , speaker with close interest, startled him by saying: "Waal, now, I dunno 'bout that. I think I know one thing the Lord cculden't do." "Oh! do you?" exclaimed the preacher with great delight- "Do on indeed! Well, lot us hear it. peak up loud and let us all her what it is the Lord coulden't do." "Waal," said th. countryman with great deliberation, "He couldn't ha' made your mouth army bigger onless he'd ha' sot your ears back." That ended the conference meeting. . . . ■ ._ • ..... An English Girl of the Period. [London Letter to San Francisco Argonaut.] I will picture to you an .English girl liv ing in one of the sonthorn countries of England. She is one of the prettiest girls | in England, has $5,000 a year in her own right, is just twonty-three,;and the danghtir of a race whose pedigree goes back to the Conquest, and whose country house is- the show piece of the country. To look at her | you would think her the I quietest of the quiet and that she hadn't an idea beyond crotchet and weak tea., But she hunts, has has her stable, keeps four hunters, and now and then rides a steeplechase, buys and -ells her own horses without help from any one; her own merchant, wine cellar and tobacconist; fences, boxes, skates and rows; has her boudoir decorated with foils, gloves, whips, horseshoes and hunting trophies; smoke, cigarettes during the day and cigars after dinner; is a capital judge of claret and port, and can tell Amontillado from Marsala/with her eyes shut; is a first rate shot with shotgun cr rook rifle; draws her own charges and pays her own bills. Sho has never been to flirt; has re fused more offers than the quiet ever dreamed of receiving, and once, it is relat ed, taught the prince of Wales a lesson by stopping in the middle of a valse with him at a state ball at Buckingham palace, and refusing to go on because he held her tighter than she considered proper. You can't call a girl like that fast. But she knows enough to take care of herself, and if her companionship with the young swells of the day," and her imitation of their Ways bar. taught hor to prefer their friend ship to thoir love, it is not unlikely she is nearer right in her estimate of her fellow beings than are the dragoue sses' of , pro priety who regard her with abhoranee, but are willing to sell their bashful maidens to the first scapegrace whose , establishment and rent-roll make him a desirable parti. THE SORGHUM INTEREST. ■ --' ii. illusion of Hi*; 7<_i._. issippi Valley Cane Growers' Convention. - :•.'". St. Louis,". Dec. 15.—1n the Mississippi Valley Cane Growers' convention to-day, the subject discussed was "a, market for sorghum product. ' Many dealers related their experience with consumers and pur chasers. They were unanimous in agree ing the demand for sorghum sirup was on the increase, and that when once, intro. duced the sirup held its own. - The com mittee on samples reported that the best sugar from. sorghum was mads . at' the works at. Champaign, 111. ' A .ample of sorghum flour received honorable mention A letter was read from Henry B. Kirkwell. treasurer of the Maine Beet Sugar Com-, pany, of Portland,! Me., in which he related his experience with sorghum' sugar. The letter was very., encouraging, jj The: con vention adjourned; at 12:30 to meet in St. Louis", in ..Jan. [ 1884. The * excursion to' New Orleans starts from here to-morrow night. . - ..'..»'■< *We are persuaded that L the ancient Hermes with all the subtle art and natural resources of the Alchemists, was a \ very ;: poor " doctor " com' pared with Mi Lydia E. Pinkham.'" of : Lynn, .Me.-.. Hermes may have been after all only a clever practitioner ' of the | Black 'Art; but we know there is no humbug in the pharmaceutical chemistry, of, Mrs. . Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. ; '"' •' The Vice Kegal Party. - ' • San 'Fbancisco, Cal.,' ' Dec. 15. The princess,'marquis and suite go by special train to Monterey this evening." "They will remain there - till - tho - early .-*. part *of next week, when they.will return to town on the 24th. ' The princess and ladies go to Santa Barbara,ibut % the. marquis > will return to Canada. ... / ;., ... •/.'. '■'.;-'.> •. ■' '■'.(.'-:? '5 '/„_>4;" v.- Heavy Floods. .]_;_. ' :'-?'~yi Sak '■ Feancisco, Cal., Dec. 15.Very heavy rains in Oregon and Washington ter ritory the last .three days /.'did '. much dam age to railroads, .bridges, etc. 7 Pendleton ; river /rose" so rapidly that•• many inhabi-1 tants were forced to take .refuge in trees, where they remained all night Mills, houses and other improvements _ were car-; i ried away .^ No loss of life reported. '*' ' iai32__^S_3 1 HAS BEES. PROVED £ c The SUREST CU: for fr .? © |p KIDNEY DISEASES. 1 r Does a lame hack or disordered" MOM raai- - I % <»tet__ttreua=o avictiriP .TEE. VEO NOT « I Cll3_3lTAT_:;'_sB__i___.3r-Wc_tat». (drug- g ' ; C gi3tareco___ie_.dit)ai-d-t will spce-'ily oyer- fc : . ™ some the disease tad restore health V actior.. o j O . •• I nHi|A« '. Per complaints peculiajt > ■ lc /.-_■«** I G«s to your sex, such pair.* . •* a_idwea_nesses,__ki_^-W'ort_3___i'a3ri', » . gaa it will act promptly and safely." .'- '■ »; j^j Either Sex. Incontinence, ofi -iSao, o ■ * lurioi-dcnt or ropy deposit;, and dull draft "iac C ] 0 paiua. aU Cpoodily yield to Its euiittiee p0.»,.»2 j j ? 43- SOI_3 irr AIJi DE,-. GISTS. ■ Price OX. Pj iWig_S_3_mi Conllrii^tioii of Assessment for Sprint ling Seyentfi Street. ■.••——. .. ; Owiob of thx Boabd of Pdblio Wokks, ) City of St. Pat.tl, Minn., Dec. 9th, 1882. P The assessment of benefits, costs and expenses arising from the sprinkling of Seventh (7th) street, from St. Peter street to the intersection of Seventh (7th) street with Fort and Third (8d streets at the,"Seven Corners," (so-called), in the city of St. Paul, Minn., having been com pleted and entered of record by the Board of Public Works in and for said city, said Board will meet at their office in said city at 2 p. m. on the 29th day of December, A. D. 1882, to hear objections (if any) to said assessment, at which time and place, unless sufficient cause is shown to the contrary, said j assessment will be con firmed by said Board. The following is a list of the supposed owners' names, a description of the property benefited, and the amounts assessed against the same, to wit:. Rice & Irvine's Addition to St. PauL Supposed owner and description. Lot. Block. Benefits Michael Defiel, (except '.ely 46 ft)-."... 4 15 $23 15 Amalia Elbel, ely 46 ft of 4 15 .33 00 Henry Justus, (except 7th ■:■'•• .-'.' street).... 1 ;14 ; 18 00 Christo-fer R Robert, (ex- ..'-** cept 7th street) 2 14 22 00 Henry Justus ...» 3 14 12 50 Nancy Irvine, (except 7th street) 7 14 30 00 Peter Berkey, w}>£ (except 7th street) of 8; 14 15 25 B P Zahm and M B Brug gemann ej£ n of 7th «*■ ''-■_'-'.?..■■'\ street 0f.... ....... 8 * 14 19 00 Same and same, v. 15.80-100 ft ii of. 7th street of 9 14 4 74 Susanna Gtuber, (except I .'_ ■■'>• ; 7th street and except w J^X-'.T? 15.50-100 ft n of 7th st) 9 14 . 13 26 Same, (except 7th street) 10 14 43 00 Gustav RumJow, ej-j (ex . cept 7th st) of 11 14 17 00 Estate of Geo ruber, de ceased, \?}4 (except 7th st) of 11 14. 35 00 John O'Donnell, n}4 (ox •,<wpt 7th"st) 0f..... 12 14 12 00 '■ MC Cunningham, (ex- £_fjj _*: cept.thst) ......... 5 13 13 50 A H Porter and T S Child's, (except 7th 5t).....:... 6 13 15 CO Edward Hammer, w 22 ft nofTthst, of 1 ,6>v 1100 Helena Fink, c 38 ft n of . 7th5t,0f....... 16 20 00 Alexander Ramsey, (ex cept st) 2 6 20 50 Ada L MayaU, (except 7th . '«'... street) 8;. 6. 18 50 R A Smith, w^ of part n of 7th st of 9 ';, 6 };f 487 Same. e_f of vr% of part i.n of 7th st of ..".*.'._:.'.'. 9 - 6 450 Wm Dawson, e^ of part n of 7th 5t0f..... ..9 6 4 87 C A. Moore, that part n of 7thstof 10 6 5 50 John Meisel, that part s of 7thst, 0f...... ....10 6 12 00 John Eoelier, (except 7th street) 11 6 15 00 Alois Mayer, wB7 ft sof 7<h st-of 12 6 15 50 August Hammer, e23ft of -. ■ } part of n}4 sof 7th st of 12 6 16 50 Peter S and Cath Nacht- .^.-...v "_ theim, w^0f...... 4 7 .6 75 James Wliinnery and Geo _ i Nnce, (except 7th st) 5 7 15 CO Louis Fisher, (except 7th st) 78 ft nofs- 26 ft of 6 7 19 00 Florian Rossmanith, (ex cept 7th st) e}4 of 8 2 13 00 James II Mayali, (except 7th st)... 9 2 16 50 John li.ps, that part sly ! of st of 10 2 6 50 Mathias Koch,- w)4 of part n'ly of 7thstof 10 2 1125 Henry Meyerding,- e% of part n'ly of 7th stof.... 10 2 6 00 Same, except aUey, that part ly of 7th st, of 11 .2 8 25 Geo Mitseh that part s'ely of-7th st of 11 2 13 25 Maria Mitseh," (except 7th st'-eet) ................ 12 2 25 00 Eazillo & Guerin's Addition to St. Paul. Supposed owner and r.. description.. Lot Block. Benefits. Geo Mitseh, (except 7th street)...;. 7 10 $57 50 All objections to said assessment must be made in writing and filed with the Clerk of said Board at least one day prior to said meeting. • JOHN FARRINGTON, President. Official: R. L. Gobman, Clerk Board of Public Works. 846 349 C. J. M'CABTHY. J. £. DONNELLY i'GABTHY & DONNELLY UNDERTAKERS. 54.WaDas.aw street Opposite Post office for . Powers St Walker's fineburial eases. Calls answered at all hours. Embalming a specialty. Best hearse in the city, and. finest carriages at lowest rates. Funerals conducted and satisfaction guaranteed . ' MAHUrAOTUBBBS. : ST. PAUL OUNDIIY mm AND " ■•'•'' __O.AC.nR_I. [WAIT. Manufacturers of the.V.'■;. ST. PA,(7I, PABM ENQIITB, Car Wheels, Railroad Castings, Iron Fronts .. s .. for Buildings, heavy Wood , and Coal > •Z. - Stoves, Bridge, Sewer, and all ' other kinds of Castings. CHAB.N. CARI___R... ....President. H. W. TOPPING .Manager POWER.. ....Secretary and Treas'r ;-;^O:.P. Box GTS. : .- ;-, FUEL DIALER*. Full weight and measure guaranteed by Old Belial Fuel Firm OP GBIGGS ft FOSTER, 41 East Third Street. Established in 1864. COAL & WOOD At bottom prices. Best. quality of anthracite coal, pea size, only $5 per ton. Orate: and . egg ) $9.50, store : $9.75, nut $19. AU grades ef j fresh mined * bituminous coal .at ;1 equally low. I prices. We are making a specialty of dry body ■ oak and birch wood mixed at. $5.50 to cord, ; nearly equal to maple. Dry pine | s'eba 5 $3.50, ! baaswood $4 _ and - maple $7. . Rcxr onber "•' the ' place, 41 East Third street. —— . -_- -j TRAVELERS' GUIDE ; St.Paul Rail wan Time Tables. '■■_■%§ — ~ ' " -•■-..- .... ... .■..-■._, Chicago, St. Paul, MinneaDolis AND OMAHA RAILWAY. "THE EOTAT. KOF'J■__," S_T*The only route running solid tadto from Minneapolis and St. Paul with Pullman __ao_tin» i I .i_ sleeper*, on ell trains to CMcn^o. . _£?... _3r"Th. only lice naming' solid train* from M f- Fan! to «n_ :•.._-,.,._•,,.. tai«M_i* 'to St._Jo;i_ph nd an. City. •. ■ ~T .'. 1.. _iu__- Leave' *•". '■' . vxTJuapio TBAD.B. |ii«. a.'luat. Paul. tn, apoiis. Paul. Chicago Day Impress...... j tIS.-OOm +12 43 urn Chicago A Ex... ,:00 p m .:4{.p__ • Sioux City fc Sioux run*... J7do a m 47*0 am I Om_ha andKansss City....' __20 PI _. ;*3oQom green Bay sad Appleton... . , ew a__ ' SSJJ.SS?— 11"*•»!Wknl tW:3O a» fn.*oa m 8iwrFa115................. I :30d m __.«. m • «♦_ .L.." 1 _* *«vln» Minneapolis at 7_JOp.rn.and H^Pa«l a* 7aM p. at is the celebraSed dicing car- Arrive St! At. Minna' '■ ___ar_No xe__,b. .Paul. . apoiis. .. Chicago *Milwaakee ___... tftlSam^ 17-1.. am S?_!_: h _,E;,9reBB —- 'Mpm _-_.££ __°_ €1_; k Siocs Palls... |7d9pm . :» m Omahsaad Kansas City.... _l:ssam .flOpa North Wisconsin k Super;.*- «3_l pva _•(¥> n m fcrreen Bay _ Appleton..... fewm +__£,» River PMi5...;............. TB,'i £ m [ t.,,^. JJ ° J_a»e Elmo and Stillwater li-alit_ " _o o_ __'"' LEAVE MINNEAPOLIS. 18:30 am, fMNmu, ti__j&__, tl:80p_, +4:80pm» . *F:00 pro. ij_.vk st. T-AXTh. ./;.'-'. t6roo a m tfc2s._ni, tll:«G >. m. t!2:45 pm, t'2-.eo - 74:85 v_. and T-.4H m. LEA V* B . I__,WA_SB FOB ST.PAUL, A _Tf_o.EA_._l_. t8:00a m, f_:C»am, f3._> p m, .as pm f7:oBpm _£___?*__ Except Sundays. J Except Mondays. Steeping Car Accommodations and an information can be secured at No. IS Jfieotlet House Block, Minneapolis. J. CHARBONNEAU, Ticket Agent, _xinneapoliBdepot,corcer Washington and Fourth avenue north. W. P. IVES, Ticket Ageut. Corner Third and Jackson streets, St. Paul. - -.- -" „ CHAS. VETSCH. City Ticket AgeLt New Union Depot, foot of Sibley street, w «, „ «_- m KNEBEL * BBOWN, Ticket rente. S. a. STRICKLAND. Ticket. Agent, BHEhratas, CMcap. ffiiwaiiteHl Pafl Railway. Arrival and departure of through passenger trains ' Leave i Leave de. ammo trains. |___nnesp_ls| St. Paul. . River Division. - j St. Louis Expre55......... 0 7:2.. amO B.ooa » Milwaukee & Chicago Ex.. J 0 12.00 tn '0 12 45 p _, Milwaukee & Chicago Ex.. A 7:oopmlA 7:45 d m lowa & Minn. Division. I South'n Minn, __ lowa Ex.. |o &:00 am O .-JO aa. Owatonna Accom .. C 4:30 m,O ii _ p m Mason Cy. South & West Ex 15 6:00 m 7-101. m Hastings* Dakota Div. i . . Aberdeen & Dakota ....! C 850 am 0 8:00 a m Bird Island Accom — .... ! a 3 :13 pm [A 2:01! pm Arrive" Arrive St. Paul. MiM_ieap Vm ~_ ■■':•-' umcago & Milwaukee Ex.. |A 6:15 ami A 7.00 a m Chicago & Milwaukee Ex.. 0 2:25 m C 3:10 p m St. Louis Expre55......... 0 8:00pm 0 8:35 a lowa & Minn. Division. , Mason Cy. South & West Ex I" 7:45 a m F 8-30 a m Owatonna Accom ... C 10:15 a mC 10:20 a in South'n Minn. & lowa Ex.. C 6:45 p m 0 665 o m Hastings & Dakota Div. Bird Island Acc0m........ Aflo_3oa m A 928-am Aberdeen _ Dakota .... O . .:_ pm 0 4:<_ p m A, means daily. C, except Sunday. E, exoen Saturday. T, except Monday. , Assessment for Opening and Extending Pleasant Ayenue. Office of the Roabd of Pdbuo Wobes, < Citt of St. Paul,, Minn., Dec. 11, !»«_. , The Board of Public Works in and for tha corporation of the city of St. Paul, Minn., will meet at their office in said city, at 2 p. m., en the 29th day of December, A. D. 1832, to make an assessment of benefits, damages, costs and expenses, arising from tho opening and exten sion of Pleasant avenue, from St. Clair street to southwest corner of city limits,' to a width of eighty (80) feet, in said city, on the property on the line of said opening a_d extension, and such other property as may be deemed benefited or damaged thereby. ;?j{,:.;. The land necessary to be condemned and taken for said opening and extension is described as follows, to-wit: -_;.._ "A strip of land eighty (80) foet wide, (ex cept such parte thereof as may now be • public property) the center lino of said strip being the extension in a direct line of the center of Pleas ant avenue as now opened between St. Clair street and Dale street, from St. Clair street to a point forty (40) feet north of the north line of blocks 1, 2 and 3, Michel and Robertson's ad dition; thence west parallel with the north line of said blocks 1, 2 and 3. of Michel and Robert son's addition, to an intersection with the cen ter line of Pleasant avenue as laid out in said addition, if produced northerly; thence south westerly along said center line of Pleasant ave nue, as laid out in Michel and Robertson's ' ad dition, to James street; thence commencing on the south line of James street where the east line of the west 32 rods of the southwest quarter of section 11, town 28, range 23, would, if pro duced northerly, intersect j said south line I of James street; thence south along said east line of the west 32 rods aforesaid, produced north erly, to the south line of Randolph street; thence south along the east line of the west 32 rods of the southwest quarter of section 11, town 28, range 23, to a point where the center line of Pleasant avenue, as laid out and opened in West End addition to St. Paul, would, if produced northeasterly, intersect said east line of the west 82 rods of the southwest quarter of section 11, town 28, range 23; thence southwesterly to the city limits along the center of Pleasant avenue as laid out in said West End addition, if pro duced northeasterly." . y< _ All persons interested are hereby notified to _ » present at said time and place of making said assessment and will be heard. JOHN FARRINGTON, President 1: R. L. Gorman, -. . .Clerk Board of Public Works. CITY NOTICE. Office of the Citt Tbeasubeb, - : ) St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 6, 1882. ) .•'.•■ ■ . -■- .. - ■"_ i . \. . All persons interested in the assessments For grading Wacouta street from a point oppo-' site the center of block 2,: Hopkin's addition •"■ to the Union depot grounds. .•.; •■ _■-■;'■ Also ■■ -- '*-" .' '-; i For grading Rosabel street from Ninth to Tenth, '• streets.. ••;..<-•.- -.--,..' - --;, ;■•;.:; . v :,..i;v\.;AiTO,.V,; ,'. ; ;;...^^|Vf For grading Rosabel street.. from Eourth street ; to Union depot grounds. Also For grading Williams street from Mississipp. . street to a point opposite the line between lota' I V 6 ank 7, block 3, '■■ Deßow, Smith, Risque St Williams' addition. . . : . -..r ._.-,:,.;-; " .',. Also ,; . r > ..,.;,, For grading Fuller street from Western avenue, to Ravoux street. -/.■■-. , -, . - s .' ' -■ .- • - ' ■'■ • . ? . -l. > > ■ .■;/'... ■':..-: i- ',-.-■< Also :•• For grading Tilton street } from Wabashaw to " Bice street. ~j.-;.\y.\ Also Tor constructing a sewer on Seventh street from a . point 150 ), feet .east. of .Wabashaw '- [. street te Minnesota street, and for construct- '■■■'■■ H ing a sewer en Temperance street, from Tenth ; ■ "toast to a point 490 feet north. , WILL TAKE NOTICE, ■ that on the sth day of December, 1882, I did receive different warrants from' the : City Comp- • troller of the ; City of j St. Paul, for i the collec- '- tion of the above named assessments. . '''-v>.' . ; The nature of these warrants is, that if yen fail to pay the assessment within .••-.;s--.;:_- ;is- THIRTY DAYS after the first publication of this notice, I shall report you and your real estate so assessed as de linquent, and apply to the District I Court of the county of | Ramsey, Minnesota, for 1 judgment ; against your lands,' lots, blocks, or parcels th.re-. of so assessed, including interest, costs J and p _- I penses, and fer ah order of the Court to sell the same for the uavment thereof. >'.'. •'.'< i .yg'-. u^£^"c*>. 840-850 . ;^^BqßßE_^(_tyTreas_r__ % . 3