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THE MARKETS.
Tbe business on the New York board yesterday
was almost a repetition of that of the day before in
many respects. Throughout the day the streets
were nil of rumors. The features were the
heavy sales of Pacific Mail and Chicago, Milwau
kee & .St. Paul. It is thought the insiders on
the former are unloading. The reports that the
difficulty between the Pacific Mail and the
Pacific railroads had been Fettled are not true.
The stock of the Chicago, Milwaukee*& St. Paul
{road declined following the announcement that
there was doubt about the payment of the divi
dend. The strong stocks on the list were the
Chicago x Northwestern, the Vanderbiltb and
the Ooi ii> stocks. Wheat was a little stronger
111 n round, but the market here and at Minne
apolis wa? Dot active.
Nl B OF THE NEWS.
Gen. Grant is very much better.
Mayor O'Brien returned yesterday.
Osman Digmawill fight shy of zerebas after
this.
The Afghan frontier question is still tick
lish.
Capt, Sharpe committed suicide at Fort
Totten.
A stable of valuable thoroughbreds burned
in Ohio.
The Minnesota bank had a close call from
fire last night.
Commissioner Gregory approves the new
civil service rules.
Carter Harrison was ienominated for
mayor of Chicago.
The Junior Pioneer club wag addressed by
MaJ. Newson last night *
President Barrios is advancing on San Sal
vador with 15,000 troops.
The Central Pacific has given up its fight
•gainst the Union Pacific.
Yellow fever has arrived at New York
quarantine from A spin wall.
The Mormons feel outraged over the re
cent supreme court decision.
The Alaska boundary question was aired
In the Dominion parliament.
Henry Ward Beocher Bays he may live to
ace a Southern man president.
The Arabs killed and wounded several of
the British troops in skirmishes.
Minneapolis Republicans have nominated
E. 11. Moulton as city treasurer.
A startling ghost sensation has frightened
tin.; people of an Indiana village.
:
A plucky girl shoots a man at Iluron
who was trying to enter the house.
A Missouri village is incensed at the dis
covery of strychnine In the town well.
There is a suspicious activity in prepara
tion for war at the English navy yards.
Bismarck's seven tieth birthday Is to be
celebrated as a holiday at Berlin, April 1.
William Richland, a rcarrestcd St. Cloud
jail breaker, committed suicide at Motley.
A summary of the business of the Union
Pacific railroad for the year ISS4 was lamed.
The grades on the St. Pan! police force
have boon renamed according to the law
passed by the legislature.
A man fell down the bluff at the foot of
Minnesota street yesterday afternoon but
escaped serious injury.
The Minneapolis Union League club gave
a reception to ex-Congressman Washburn
last night.
Gov. Hoadly's private secretary, Dan Mc-
Convllle, has been made the sixth auditor of
the treasury.
R. M. Reaney of St. Paul is In Washing
ton and sayi his visit has no political signifi
cance.
The Omaha will, com men eta;? April 1.
issue a new mileage ticket for commercial
purposes.
The Northern Pacific I* arranging a plan
to ftoeM out the Wells- Fargo Express com
pany from St. Paul.
Five murdered persons in Nebraska are en ■
route to Owatonna forreburial.
Ex-Congressman H. 1.. Muldrow of M I
lissrppi was appointed assistant secretary of
the Interior. *
The now commissioner of the general
land efwaa Is ex-Coasrressinin Sparks of
Illinois, »ho Ifttred extensively in the elec
toral debate of '76.
Maektn and Gallagher, the Chicago elec
tion tricksters, are out on bail.
Ttroma* Lane of Minneapolis is accused of
committing a horrible crime on his little '
daughter.
Tnr English pres* arraign On?. Graham
and McNeill for carelessness at the Hashees
bilU.
The Brainrrvl saloonkeepers crraaixe to
•sat *n4 «Urve oat their high license city
council.
Civil Service Commissioner J. M Gregory
examined a dais of sixty-fire in SL Paul
y«:eni*y. He will hold an cxamina:: la
Minneapolis to-day.
Cuma ELoutlsos has picked cp the^pole
again. Th* persimtaocs an boccti to coae
dora.
GIVE THE OLD 31EX d CHANCE.
The Baltimore Herald suggests that it is a
mistake for a young man to be Reeking
office. And so it is. It is reported that the
great majority of the office-seekers at Wash
ington are young men, and that they are bo
eager they are /willing to accept anything
that brings in a government salary. This is
a great mistake that these young men are
making. A young man who commences
life by holding political ofiice disqualifies
himself for anything else. The teuure of
office is so uncertain that it cannot be adopted
as a profession. A position with a living
salary may be obtained, and held for four,
eieht or ten years, yet sooner or later it must
be vacated, and then the evicted office-holder
gees out into the world a pauper and pos
sessed of no qualification for the business of
the world. His energy is destroyed and his
ambition is killed so he has no future. Young
men should not be seduced into such decep
tive ways. They have the world before
them, and there is always something to do.
A young man who begins his career at $3
per week behind some counter is richer than
he who gets employment from the govern
ment at $25 per week. With a reasonable
amount of intelligence,coupled with ambition
to succeed, success with him is sure; with the
latter the chances are that his life will be a
failure. There are enough of old men and
middle-aged men to till the offices and to
many of them an office would be a God
send. Their methodical ways and rigid ideas
of duty would give the country a better class
of labor for the pay than inexperienced
young men could do. The work for the
young men is to create rather than to fill the
oflice6, and under our form of government
this is the grandest heritage thai could be
left them.
No man in the country has risen to fame
from obscurity so rapidly as Gene Hjggins.
In the Soudan, as it has always been in Eng
land's wars, the Irish troops are the bulwark
of English strength. Their loyalty to the
queen is one of the anomalous things which
puzzle the world. Their conduct can only
be explained by the strong characteristics of
fidelity and devotion which pertain to the
Irish people. Wherever they engage there
lies the path of duty, and in that path they
unfalteringly walk. Although for England
they have no love, they are nevertheless true.'
They strike for Ireland and the honor of the
Irish name. It wa3 this devotion that
nerved them at Waterloo, supported them
through the Crimea, and impelled them up
on the victorious Arabs at Suakim.
The Deseret News, the twin relic organ of
Utah, breaks forth in • a passionate outburst
because it sees no hope for Mormon is in un
der a Democratic administration. Mr.
Cleveland has had his say about Mormon
ism and he means to keep his word. The
quieter the twin relic keeps the better it
will be.
W BUS Republicans are invoking the spirt
of civil service reform to protect Pearson in
the New York postoffice they are unmindful
of the fact that during his administration of
the office out of I,7oo" employes less than 100
were Democrats. The golden rule applies to
the civil service as well as to other things.
Otit foreign consulates seem to be filled
with a new light on the pauper-labor-of-Eu
rope question since a new administration
succeeded to the control of affairs. ThU3
Consul Sillcox of Bremen, in a recent re
port on the introduction of American agri
cultural implements into Germany, says, re
garding this competition:
•'As a rule, our workmen are more intelligent,
and their habits are such tHat they will ac
complish more in a day than the Europeans: so
that there is here an equalizing principle."
This shrewd observer points out that
American manufacturers demand larger
profits than the European, have more gor
geous and elaborate offices and buildings, and
transact business generally by more expen
sive methods; and this, and not the cheap
labor of Europe, he regards as the principal
hindrance to the introduction of American
implements.
XAVAL REFORM,
Mr. Whitney is getting in his work as a
reformer along with the rest of the cabinet
He has created a sensation in Washington
circles by an order that a list of naval officers
on shore duty be made out for his Inspection,
with a view of ascertaining how long they
have been on such duty and whether changes
of assignment would not be beneficial to the
naval service. It is well known that a large
number of naval and army officers have been
on duty in Washington for years, and they
have come to be looked upon as permanent
institutions of the city. Their arduous duties
have consisted in attending balls, receptions
and other festivities, and displaying them
selves iv the fashionable streets during pleas
ant weather. They have had a very comfort
able time of it, feeding on canvas-back and
terrapin and having their little flirtations
with pretty women. Other naval officers
who happened to incur the displeasure of the
department have been sent off to sea and
kept away from home for years. The reform
proposed by Secretary Whitney is all right.
Turn about is fair play, and some of the
shoresmen should be sent out, and some
who have been doing long service Abroad
should be brought home.
Mi: Mannino is giving the treasury de
partment a thorough overhauling. He wants
to linii out whether that big surplus really ex
ists or whether it only had an existence in
the imagination of the Republican campaign
committee.
The decrease in public earnings of the
Union Pacific may be accounted for by the
completion of the Northern Pacific, which
has In a very large measure taken its through
traffic.
Wnvr primitive simplicity must prevail in
Washington social circles. A correspondent,
describing a public reception at the national
capital, says: "The ladles wore decollete
corsage, the dresses cut low anil sleeveless."
That takes us back to the times of our mothers
when on wash-day they worked over the tub >
with sleeves rolled up and decollete dress
front.
Onto has not been wholly neglected In the
distribution of loaves and fishes. In addi- ;
tion to Minister Pendleton, ( i -'v. Ho^dlt'!
secretary, McConville, has been appointed
auditor of the treasury of the postoffice
department.
Secrktart Lauar wants the civil service
rules extended so as to protect officials in the
interior department who arc not re.-tinir
under the xgis of the civil service law at
present. It begins to look as if the Demo
cratic party I* really In earnest about a civil
service reform.
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The opposition in the bouse of lords is a
series of »Utniine interrogation points more
terrible to the Gladstone government than
an army of Arab? with banners and bristling ;
with sprar* and hamstringing knives. The
particular question now being teased fora
reply is whether Gen. McNeiu. still enjoys ■
the confidence of the ministry after he al- i
lowed himself to be ambushed and almost
anntbiiatcHi Sunday in tbe Ha«been ti\\s. !
And it must be admitted that it is a most \
perplexing question for the Duke of Cam- ;
bridge to answer, and one which he cocld
well deilre to treat wit^ dignified disregard,
whatever his mental perturbations may be.
From the report of the condition of winter
wheat la the Middle states ■ would seem
tail there is a decrease of acreage. which, with
tbe promise of aavuerai foreign war Involving ]
the countries which prodsce that cereal, mat j
encourage ocr North«resttra producers to la- (
crease their own acreage itis scasoc.
fHE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE. WEDNESDAY MARCH MORNING. 25, 1885
THE SRir MINISTER TO JEN Q LASH.
The Chicago Times thus speaks of the
newly-appointod minister to the court of St.
James:
In the nomination of Mr. Edward .T. Phkltb
of Vermont for minister to England, the presi
dent has again agreeably surprised the country.
Mr. Piielps is unknown in the domain of "prac
tical politics." lie is not a politician in the
popular. understanding of the word. He has
never been in public life. But, if the president
had searched the country from the Androscoggin
to the Bravo, from Key West to Puget Sound, he
hardly could have discovered a gentleman more
eminently fitted by character, learning and per
sonal accomplishments for the first diplomatic
lnia.iion in Europe.
Mr. Phelps is a gentleman of about 50 years,
educated for the law, and who, until he retired
from practice a few years ago, stood with Sena
tor Kdmttxds at the front of the. profession in
New England. His taste and inclination having
led bis studies largely into the domain of inter
national law, he accepted an invitation to occupy
that chair in the faculty of Yale, and has annu
ally delivered a course of lectures on interna
tional law at that great educational foundation.
He is a highly accomplished scholar, a pleasing
orator, a dignified and polished gentleman, pos
sessing, it ie beleved, hotktalents and accom
plishments that will reflect the highest credit
upon the not heretofore remarkably brilliant
diplomatic service of America.
The nomination of Mr. Phei.ps to the English
mission is a surprise to the country because it is
I another marked instance of the office seeking
the man, instead of the man seeking the office.
It is also another case in which the oflice has
found the right man, instead of the wrong man
finding the office. Moreover, it will encourage
a lively hope of the country that during the
reign of the actual president, at least, the for
eign service of this republic will not be treated
as a convenience for the comfortable retirement
of bankrupt politicians and decayed partisan
dead-wood, but rather as a service that shall re
spectably represent the government and charac
ter of one of the chief nations.
The Chicago Tribune says:
Mr. Pjielvs may be a gentleman of respect
able talents, but we venture the prediction that
not a soul in all England ever heard of the
man.
Well, suppose that he is not known in
England. What of it? Does that disqualify
him from looking after American interests?
It is not English interests that we want to
guard and protect when we send ambassa
dors abroad, and we can't see that the United
States is under any peculiar obligation to se
lect its ministers to foreign courts from a
circle of gentlemen who have spent their
lives in studying foreign politics and ignor
ing those of their own country. Mr. Cleve
land is starting out to give us a simon-pure
American administration, and his appoint
ments show that he has an excellent appreci
ation of the task he is applying himself to.
Nor does it signify anything that Mr. Phelps
is unknown to political fame. That fact is
rather in his favor. He is not practiced in
the arts of the politician and can be relied
upon to discharge his duty. It has not been
such a long time back that President Cleve
land had no political distinction. Six years
ago the Chicago Tribune had never
beard of him. Even as late as last
October our contemporary, the Pioneer Press,
spoke of m him as "a painted and stuffed
effigy," and yet there are people in St. Paul
who have lived to read the most exalted en
comiums of this "painted and stuffed effigy"
in the columns of the same paper. There is
no telling what metal is in a man until he is
tried. And it may be that in less than a year
from now the Tribune will have its hat off
and shouting for Phelps, the greatest of all
American ministers. America is a wonder
ful country and there is no limit to Ameri
can development.
A Ciiicago preacher last Sunday explained
why so few people go to church. He gave
the reason as being simply poor preaching.
The proposition was so plain we are sur
prised that the clergyman took time to
demonstrate it.
Burke and Greenfield, the Chicago
pugilists, became so much enranged in their
mill Monday night the police bad to inter
fere and stop the fight, much to the regret of
the excited Chicago populace.
Mr. Watterson says that his anger is not
smouldering. In fact, he has.no anger to
smoulder, and, if he had. be is not a smoul
dering man. He announces his intention to
let the world wag as it will, he is going to be
gay and happy still. We like Mr. Watter
son's philosophy. There is nothing like
keeping a stiff upper lip, and we are confi
dent that the wonderful moral courage the
Kentucky journalist is displaying in the hour
of his defeat and humiliation will win ap
proving smiles from the star-eyed goddess at
whose shrine he is chief priest.
Till' MEL lIEBKLLTOX.
Owing to the fact that the wires were cut
near Carlton, Northwest territories, by the
rebels, reliable news in detail lias been diffi
cult to secure from the seat of the rebellion.
So late us yesterday the Ottawa government
affected to believe that the reports were ex
aggerated. But from the cunning of Riel
and the desperate character of the men
he control;, the situation is undoubtedly a
very serious one. The rebels are stronc,
well armed and desperate, and all of the
frontier posts of the Northwest territories are
at their mercy. Some light is shed on the
quality of the men and their leaders in the
Globe's news columns. The fact that Kiel
is an American citizen, and the probability
that if he is hard pressed .he . will
seek refuge on our side of the
lino, may develop a serious international
problem difficult (if solution. However, it i*
hoped that this Issue may be averted by the
wily rebel securing the supplies at the fron
tier posts, if it shall take on so serious an
aspect ami fleeing into the fastnesses of
the mountains or the wilds of the Hudson
bay; district to treat for terms
with the government, for he must inevitably
be driven from whatever position he may
hold, althouch be may make the Manitobans
much trouble. The most serious a?pect the
rebellion presents, however, is the turbulent
spirit even a temporary success may incite j
among the Indians of the extreme North- I
west, who are desperate from lons fasting ;
during a hard and protracted win-:
ter. The combined forces of balf-breeda '
and Indian*, with abundant stores, '
secured from the posts practically in their
power, could withstand for some time all toe
force that the Manitoba government could j
bring against them if they should resolve to j
make a la # ditch resistance. The British j
government is indeed having a bard time j
with its rebellions clement? everywhere.
Tom Uncle Jos McDonald turns oat to
be the bi£ze»t man of the pile after ail. lie :
is the only one to return from Washington
with the proud satisfaction of knowing that '
he has declined an appointment. Your
Uncle Joe has a level head, and he knows
that Indiana pone and pork is a sure thing,
while Ruaeiau dynamite is an uncertain
quantity.
The wheel of fortune begins to tarn in
favor of Ohio at last. The weather must be
moderating in that section.
The Tennessee icnators protest aralast the
appointment of Gov. Porto: to a position
in the state department witiiont their con
sent being first bad and obtained. Of coarse
the president was sorry to see them out of
joint, but didn't promise to give then any
rebate. That bi: of foolishness known as
senatorial courtesy has at ia;t been soothered
by executive horse sense. One more reform
accomplished.
========
The cod plication « of the German govern
tteat wi& tbe American hog made it quite
appropriate that the American minister to
the German court *io-Ii be taken from
Porkopett*.
RITUALISM IX A SCOTTISH PRESBY
. . TERIAN KIRK.
If the souls of the departed are conscious
of events transpiring; in this world, what
must be the feelings of old John Knox as
•he looks down from over the jasper walls
and Bees ritualism practiced in the Free
kirk of Scotland. One of the phenomena
of the age In which we live is seeing unex
pected things in still more unexpected
places. This is as true of sacred and ecclesi
astical things as it is of secular or profane
matters. And of nil improbable novelties
the introduction of high Anglican ritualism
into the Presbyterian kirk of Scotland would
seem to be the most incredible. Indeed,
the ideas of sacerdotalism, sacramcntalism
and ritualism seem to us wholly irreconcil
able with the essential dogmas of Presby
terianism which the Free kirk seceders never
abandoned when they emitted the establish
ment in Scotland on account of the state in
terference with church matters. And yet we
read that the Re*. Dr. Muir, of the Presby
terian kirk at Leith, has been taking an ad
vanced position in favor of ritualistic services,
60 far advanced in fact as to shock the bulk
of the membership of the* Episcopal State
church of England. It is only a recent oc
currence that ritualism has been allowed to
revive in the established church in England
after it had been allowed to slumoer in the
(lust of the conventual church services since
the last of the Stuart kings. However im
probable it might have seemed since Arch
bishop Looday, the last ritualistic primate of
England, lost his head on the block, that the
services of the Episcopal church would ever
become anything more esthetic than the old
reading desk dialogue between parson and
clerk, with the stereotyped sermon delivered
in black gown and cassock, still there was a
saving clause in the prayer book which ren
dered the resurrection of sacerdotal pomp
and ornate service possible in the rubric
which directs that "the ornaments of the
church and her ministers shall continue as
they were in the second year of Kino Ed
ward VI." But there was no such
saving clause in the confession of faith of
the Scottish kirk. In fact the whole history
of the Scotch covenanters was a rugged
protest against ritualistic forma, and so
strong did the spirit of anti-ritualism pre
vail among Scotch Presbyterians the attitude
of standing in public prayer in the churches
was adopted —to indicate a distinct separa
tion from all the forms of the established
church of England which encouraged ritual
istic services.
And now to see a prominent min
ister of the Free kirk establish
ment not only adopting Episcopal
forms, but even going so far as to
practice a system of indulgences, is almost
enough to recall the spirits of the great host
of covenanters who have passed over the
flood, and thousands of whom went up
through fire and war clouds in testimony of
their devotion to an anti-ritualistic faith, and
have them trooping back in their blue stock
ings to avenge themselves of the sacrilegi
ous indignity done their faith by one who
holds his commission from the church of
their establishment.
Dr. Mum's first eccentricity was to adver
tise his sermons in the Saturday papers as
"Sermonettes," an odd way of attracting a
Scottish Presbyterian audience, to whom the
sermon is the chief feature of public wor
ship. This advertising of senuonettes was
followed by his wearing in the
pulpit a huge purple hood, which
he explained by the fact that Gran
ville college in Tennessee had sent him the
degree of doctor of divinity. To the Presby
terians of Scotland a purple hood on a
preacher must have been as irritating as a
red flag to a bull,aud Dr.Muiß must have pre
sented as anti-Christian an appearance as the
Scarlet Woman of the Apocalypse. But the
most anti-Presbyterian doctrine introduced
by Dr-Mum was his sale of indulgences. He
advertised that he should offer up prayers
and grant absolutions for small sins to any
virgins in Leith who could be wise enough to
contribute a certain amount toward buying
new bells for his church. In the service of
his kirk he organized a choir of men and
boys in surplices and has included candles
and incense. How he could introduce all
these things, without a riot, in a Presbyterian
church, is hard to imagine. When arraigned
before his Presbytery, upon a charge of
ritualism, he expressed a desire to remain a
pastor of the the Free kirk of Scotland, yet
at the same time he avowed his belief in
the doctrine of baptismal regeneration
as held by the Greek and Roman
churches, but not held by
the Westminster divines and Protestants
generally. "Sin," said be, "is inherent
in the child at its birlh. Sin disappears
after baptism. There comes regeneration"
in the baptism in the case of all children
baptized." lie admitted having said on one
occasion in his own church: "My prayer to
Almighty God this morning is 'Lord grant
in Thy mercy that no more brother Martin
Lcthers be sent to Thy church on earth.
Amen I' " He also admitted that at a funeral
in Porto hello be bad oronoaoced a blessing
on the dead. Although Dr. Mem is quite
satisfied in his own mind that he has all the
supernatural prerogatives of the priesthood
the Scottish bishops of the Episcopal church
in Scotland refuse to ordain him. All of
which leads to the conclusion that as Dr.
Muir obtained his doctor's purple hood from
a small college in Tennessee he is trying in
a small way to advertise himself as a sensa
tionalist
ii ention; 01 MEN.
Senator Bayard is said to have a habit of pout
lag.
Senator L&mont's mail i.« almost as large as
thai of an editor.
Postmaster General VOai Is railed "Monsieur
Veclah" by his French friends.
("apt. Paul Boyton finds" that there is more
profit in whi.-ky than In water.
Th* Snltan of Morocco i.« thought to be deaf,
a* he has just married his one thousandth
wife.
Ex-Senator McDonald doc? not want a foreign
appointment. lie prefer* a snug berth on this
»ide of the water.
They have had to tie an octogenarian in Con
necticut to a bed-poet to keep him from marrying
a ninth wife. .
The Kins of Siam, has 263 children, and is con
sidered lack? because be can afford to seii a baby
whenever be has to pay hi.- dog-tax.
Hocn Conway'« Dark Dare hare brought
bright day? to him, a* bis pablishere already j
bare paid him a royalty on 200.000 *o!d copies,
none of which hare been Called Back.
Ex. Postmaster General Hatton is said to hare
been offered a desirable railway position, and
contemplates abandoning hi« proposed journalis
tic work in order to accept it.
Mr. Lamar will be the oldest member of the
cabinet. GO, Mr. Vi!a- the youngest, ♦-">.
El Mahdi, previous tq, the war, used to go
around with naked lee? and bare feet. and if be
washed once a month it was by accident,
THE NEW GLOBE.
Its >"f-tr« nj» to the Latest Moment.
Prom the Soakcpee Courier.
- The Si. Paul Globe under the new maaaze
c-.eat i> certainly a most excellent paper. Its
editorials are sound, with the additional merit
of Lot being so lengthy as to be tiresome, a great
fault wi'h bi;j city daiil*?. A* for its news in
per.ers:.;: has it a way* op to the latest moment.
It* a good paper to hare in hand, now that a
Democratic adminUtratioa is in order ar.d the
Globs In representative.
Command* the K**pect of all Parties.
From the Lake City Sentinel.
The St. Paul Daily Glabx is now one of tie
very best newspaper? is the land, and i* a woa
derfc! success under its new editorial z&atta^^r.
Lewi* Baker. While it is a iy ace izzzi.j
Democratic it is not no reasonably z*aloa.« as a
party paper, but trrav* all matters from a stand
point of reasca and cocoon tease that con
xsasds tie respect of all partie- and creed*. Iv
editorial department » especially brig fresh
and able, while it* various department* of m«i
is nothing 'abort of a woader in thtii tr.V.r.ru Mai
ran*;/.
A GAME OF FREEZE OUT;
The Northern Pacific Express Com
pany by Reducing Expenses Will
Knock Out Welis-Fargfo.
The Annual Report of the Union Pa
cific Ready to Submit to the ■- ■ :
Directors.
Acting Commissioner Cannon of the Trans
continental Association Announces
Bates on California Fruit.
The Central Pacific Agrees to Receive Freight
From the Union Pacific at ' !
Tariff Kates.
Sale of the Green Bay Road to the Wis
consin Central Deuied— Meaning of
jbiuijfraiil Movables,
--. WORK OF A YEAR.
Report Shows an Increase in Earnings
Over Previous Year,
Boston, March 24. -The summary of op
erations of the Union Pacific railroad for the
year 1884 has been made public, preliminary
to the annual meeting to-morrow, and i6as
follows: For the last six months the earn
ings, excluding the St. Joseph & Western
railroad, were $14,788,000; expenses, $0,
-807,000; taxes, $549,000. The surplus earn
ings for the entire system for the last six
months of 1884 were $7,381,000. . Other re
ceipts from miscellaneous sources make the
total income $7,892,000, as against the total
income for the first six months of the year
of $3,849,000. The expenditures for the last
six months were 795,000; of this amount
$2,674,000 was paid for interest on bonds.
The total surplus tor the last six months of
the year was $4,096,000; from this is de
ducted $750,000 for United States re
ouirements, leaving the net suplus income
for the last six " months $3,846,000 as
against a deficit of $383,000 for ■ the first
six months of the year. The report says:
It is necessary to bear in mind that the var
ious measures" of economy which have been
matured and entered upon during the first
half of the year did not produce their effect
until the second half. Before the close of
first half also the work of construction then
going on has been practically brought to a
close, and the better financial results of the
last six months are largely due to the causes
which originated in the previous six months
but which developed effects at a later period.
THE TOTAL EAKNIXGS.
for the year, excluding St. Joseph & Western
and the income from investments, was
$26,205,000. In 18S4 the earnings was
$29,341,000. The surplus income for 1884
was $2,962,000 and for 1883, $5,156,000.
Dunns the last year the floating debt of the
company has been decreased to $3,230,000.
During the past year there have been ex
penses and loss in receipts not likely to occur
again. There was an increase in taxes of
$245,753 owing to the new law in Nebraska.
The tolls due from the St. Joseph & Western
Bridge Building company have not been paid.
These tolls, amounting to $101,865, are
property receipts of the system. They will
soon be paid. The accumulated de
ficiencies, open accounts and dis
puted credits since the consolidation
in 1880 have been charged off against
the surplus income of 18S4, which has suf
ficed to meet them all after paying a divi
dend of 1% per cent., and yet leave a bal
ance of $1,033,444, equal to 1 7-10 per cent,
on the company's capital stock. The total
outstanding funded debt of the company,
which does not include the funded debts of
auxiliary independent organizations, in
which the company is interested, amounted
December 31, 1884, to §84,173,285; as com
pared with $84,506,332 December 81 the
previous year, showing a decrease for the
year of $333,047. The net reduction the
entire debt, funded and floating, during the
year, was $578,000. The land sales of th«
company during the year, after deducting
the sales canceled, were 4,321,042 acres for
the Union Pacific proper, which realized
$6,517,778; for the Kausas Pacific .452,566
acres, and the amount realized $1,917,875.
The 50,000 in dispute has been decided
against the company, which leaves the roads
in debt to the road as above stated.
Nothing to flo With it,
Milwaukee, Wis., March 24. — A sensa
tional dispatch to the Chicago Inter-Ocean
that the Green Bay, Win on a it St. Paul rail
way was seized yesterday by the first mort
gage bondholders and is now to be controlled
by the Wisconsin Central is declared by the
Officials of that line to be entirely without
foundation. They assert that the Central
lias no more than any road in the Northwest
to do with the transaction.
The Union J'tirific Report.
Washington', March 24. — The report of the
commissioner of railroads on the Union Pa
cific railroad, as revealed by the company's
books, shows there was due the United States
for the year 1884, under the Thurman act,
$1,135,220, against which there is credited
for government transportation, etc., $1,135,- ;
173, leaving $47 due the government for the
year. President Adams says the company
will pay promptly the $917,000 adjudged due
the government by the court of claims.
AN IMPORTANT CHANG
The Xorth*rn Pacific's A>tc Oral in Run
ning 3le.»*eng'ra fhrouyh to
Portland.
The new plan of Northern Pacific express
messengers running through to Portland in
stead of Helena, as announced in yesterday's
Globe, is of more importance than was at
first supposed. The change win be effected,
as announced, April 5, and on that day ex
press* messenger? will not only handle ex
press matter but baggage, doing away with a
baggageman on each passenger train. It
was generally supposed that a mes
senger could not continue to
make this long run for any
length of time, and with good reason, as be
would have a run of four and live days at a
stretch without rest. But this will lie reme
died by each messenger having an assistant,
and the one will sleep while the other work-,
relieving each other about every eight hour*.
With the dismissal of the baggagemen, tl.e
expenses of the company will be lessened
several thousands of dollars a month. Tbe
scheme has long been thought of. and to
those who remember and understand
the rivalry that existed and continues to
exist between the Northern Pacific
company and the Wells-Fargo Express com
pany will readily notice that it is a direct bit
at the latter company. Under the new de
parture the Northern Pacific will be able to
carry express matter at a figure that could
not be thought of by tbe Weils-Fareo. as tbe
latter bas to pay to the former a certain gum
for the facilities afforded them and for the
tbe transportation of tbeir express matter.
and the Northern Pacific can give rate* below
r ven those which the Wells- Fargo pay to them.
By tbis it will be seen that it is a clear case of
'.Tf-zc ont, for the W«Jis-Farjro cannot do
business when they have to make a rate to
the public De low that wbicb they pay for
transportation 10 the Northern Pacific. In
deed the Inauguration of this new scheme
promises to be one of the most interesting
cases ever occurring in Northwestern express
business.
CALIFORNIA FRUIT RATES
Bt/ Freight or I'ajttrntjt-r Train* from West
to East.
The circular eiving notice of the redaction
on fruit rates from California, Oregon and
T}*ajbinetoa Territory point*, ria the Trans
coaiiaeatil lin es, wa3 received in St. Paul
yestrniav from L- G. Cannon, acting com
miwioner of the association. Ii states that
ciiiil farther notice, wben BhipmeoU are
offered subject to the subjoined rules - and
conditions, Ibe Transcontinental association
will guarantee the following rates of freight ;
oo fruit and resreUbirs by freight train, "in j
car loads of not lea* than 20.000 lbs. nor
more tban marked capacity of car, and in
case capacity is not marked, 23.000 lbs.; by
psssenzer train, in car loads of not lea* than
20.000 lbs., nor more than 24.000 lbs. in old,
or 30.000 lbs. in new C. P. fruit can. and in
foreign or other Tnwcontlß«nta.l fruit cars
load must not exceed marked capacity or ex
treme limit as provided for C. P. fruit cars.
The rates are a3 follows: From San Fran
cisco, Sacramento. Oakland, Sau Jose, Mays
ville, Stockton and Los Augeles, California;
Portland and Astoria, Or., via the Northern
Pacific and Oregon Short line; Seattle aud
Tacoraa, W. T., via the Northern Pacific only
to Omaha, Council Bluffa, Kansas City, St.
Paul, Minneapolis, Galvestou aud Houstou,
$1.40 per 100 pounds by freight train and
$3.55 by passtnger train; to St. Louis and
New Orleans, $1.45 by freight aud $2.85 by
passenger; to Chicago, $1.50 via freight and
$i 3 by passenger.
To points common with those named
above, rates by freight train will he the same.
The passenger train rates will- apply only to
the places named, and consignments will be
taken only where the carrier can furnish
c«rs properly equipped. The following rail
road companies have agreed to haul fruit in
passeuger trains: Chicago & Alton, Chica
go, Burlington & Quiucy, Chicago, Milwau
kee «fc St. Paul, Chicago & Northwestern,
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, Missouri
Pacific, Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific.
The Neiv Mlleaye I'icTcet.
Commencing April 1 the Omaha company
will sell to the principals, or traveling repre
sentatives of manufacturing and jobbing
firms, (the term jobbing firm meaning any
firm that regularly employs traveling sales
men or themselves travel to sell goods usually
transported by freight traiusj, commercial
1,000 mile rebate tickets at $25 each,
with rebate of $5 upon return of the cover of
the ticket. They will be good to
travel on all lines of the Chicago
& Northwestern railway and of the
Omaha company, except in Nebraska.
The form of the ticket was adopted at a joint
meeting of a committee of the Merchants'
association of Chicago aud representatives of
the railways represented, as the best adapted
in all particulars to subserve both the com
mercial and railroad interests.
These tickets will be sold only on orders of
representatives of the freight department, as
follows :
James T. Clark, general freight agent, St.
Paul; Stanley Proudfit, contracting agent,
159 East Third street, St. Paul; O.
F. Briggs, general agent, No. 13
Nicollet house block, Minneapolis; F.
B. Whitney, general agent, Omaha, Neb.
The rebate will be paid to the firm or per
son in whose interest the ticket is issued or
return of the cover of the ticket to F. B.
Clarke, general traffic manager, within one
year from date of sale, provided 1,000 miles
have been traveled and all conditions noted
thereon have been complied with. The com
mercial travelers' permit system will not be
abrogated by the adoption of this ticket, but
it will be continued as heretofore to firms
wiiich prefer to use it.
THE SCALPER'S HATCHET.
A Xew Plan Tlit-y Have Adoptpd to Benefit.
Travel erit -with Cheap Tickets.
Special to the Globe.
Chicago, March 24. —A meeting of the
general western passenger agents of the
western trunk lines was held at the office of
W. H. Hurlbert of the Erie this afternoon.
It took the form of a formal discussion
of the subject of commissions,
a matter that was traversed without
arriving at any definite conclusiou. It was
algo discovered that, despite the good faith
and uuaniinity of all the lines in maintain
ing the advance in the last formed passeuger
rates, there was still a loophole by which the
astute broker could circumvent the roads and
give his customer the advantage of a
reduced rate. The Chicago & Alton
sells through tickets from St. Louis to New
York via Chicago at the agreed tariff rate in
St. Louis, $18." There is a close time limit
on each ticket, but not sufficiently so to pre
vent the scalping of tickets here. By pre
arrangement the traveller from St. Louis to
Chicago buys a through ticket and receives a
rebate of $11.50 here," which leaves him §2 on
the trip. This leaves a margin of $0.50 to
be divided between the Chicago broker and
his customer, who wants a cut rate ticket to
New York. The trade is not a very large one
and is limited to a number of patrous of out
side workers upon whom he can rely
to take the ticket off his hands nt
the right moment, and is probably one of
those combinations which can't be broken
unless tun Chicago <fc Alton would lend an
earnest effort in ttiat direction. The same
trouble has occurred in other directions in
the past, and the only efficient means found
to decide it was to require the purchaser to
sisrn his name when buying a ticket and
again when reading the changing point in
the trunk road.
IHpiiTiin?/ °f "K hi it/rant Mnvnhlfx,"
To avoid any further misunders-.tandincr
as to what articles comprise the term "emi
grant movables," and rules and conditions
uovcrniuu: tin- transportation of the same on
the line of the Milwaukee & St. Paul, the
company calls the particular atteution of
;njeuts to the term so they will understand.
It applie.s to household jjooijy, second-hand
farm machinery, wagons and live
.stock, treea and shrubbery, lumber
and shiiiL'leh, not to exceed in tbe n^rc^ate
the equivalent of 2,500 feet of lumber; fence
posts, not to exceed 250 in number, or a
portable bouse, properly included in the out
lit of Intending settlers, but does not include
doors, sasb, blinds, provisions, trr;<in, unless
for seeding purposes or for feeding animals
while in transit, general merchandise or any
articles intended for sale or speculation.
When a car contains live slock one man
will be passed free to take charge of it, and
in such cases agents will execute the
usual form of live htock contracts.
In no case will agents permit to be loaded
upon the top of <ar> or fastened underneath
ttie cara, lumber, poles, trees or any other
articles, nor will agents receive car, bo
loaded comintc from connecting lines.
Agents will be held personally responsible
for tbe strict enforcement of tbe rulea and
conditions, and wue.u receiving ;iir<-uts dis
cover prohibited articles billed as emigrants l
movables they will correct tbe billing and
raise on such articles to the hi^hc.bt rate ac
cording to the classification.
in ' ittonlntl lor < i.tirrxaton.
The Central Pacific lias instructed itsaercnt
atOgdento receive all freight at rate's pro
portionate to the new tariff, and it has agreed
to report its business to the pool, a concession
it has strenuously opposed. Speculation has
been rife as to the cause of this sudden
change. The most feasible solution of the
problem Is that the Central Pacific has just
[.'it a new loan on tbe market for $10,000,
-000, and a war nt this time would make it
difficult to place the bonds. Besides the
Central wishes to open a new field in Oregon
which the Union Pacific ha* shut it out of.
All rifT rates affected by the recent nor
alization have been restored, to take effect
to-day, and tariffs 2 and 'i are now in force
and recognized a3 having commenced on
lue l'itli.
Hop* for Butted Broker*.
Vfall Street Daily Xew<.
One of the brokers who wag swept out of
Wall street two or three years ago baa been
heard of in the GunuiHon valley. He landed
there with only GO cents in hi« pocket, and
at once became a ball on religion* matters.
He worked the stock up ' from one Christian,
two Bibles and ■ second-hand pulpit from
Chicago, to a $3,000 church cdificp, a con
gregation numbering 140, and a $0,000 per
year prrseher.
'•Who is the preacher?"
'The broker, nf coarse! We understand
that there are several more, very rich fields
in the Gunuisos, and that Jay Gould will
find brokers to fill 'em before spring runs*
into sammer."
XfoHc Cntilf TtutruHUmm.
The OmsJ a line yesteniay issued the foi
lowinz important circular to all agents of the
Nebraska division: Takinz effect tn-Cay,
you may accept billing of stock cattle and
»tock hogs from Chicago, Milwaukee, Racine,
Racine Junction or Keoosba to your fetation
at two-thirds of the current tariff rate on
cattle and Lo^-.- from Chicago,
Agents wiil please see that all ehipments
of cattle billed at these rates have been re
leased for value of orer 1100 per bead, and
in case sacb release has nut been given, will
restore the rate to published tariff.
Ifill Jirmnin //»«• Same.
It is understood that the Chicago fait
boand trunk lice* will not pnt tbe new rates,
adopted last Saturday, on the rate akaet at
present, bat will wait for tome time and tee
whether , the rates are kept or not. It has
been understood 'in St. Paul that the rates
made at Chicago were only temporary, but
if the roads held to the r agreement and did
not cut the rates, they would be made per
manent and the Chicago passenger agents
association would make out a new rate sheet.
Until this is done the rates from St. Paul to
Buffalo and points east will remain the same,
viz., $32 50, as the St. Paul agents have no
power to make a rate on the basis of Chicago
rates unless advised officially to do so.
Brevities,
The reduction in rates for emigrant mov
ables by the Manitoba road will take effect
April I. '
General Passenger Agent Charles S. Fee
of the Northern Pacific road returned home
yesterday .
The annual election of directors of the
Pennsylvania Railroad compauy resulted in
the re-election of the old board.
The trouble between the locomotive engi
geers and the .Missouri Pacific railway was
amicably arranged yesterday. The engineers'
committee returned to their homes last
night.
J Chicago & Grand Trunk, Grand Trunk of
Canada and Vermont Central have arranged
for :i fast freight line between Boston and
Chicago. Two trains each way will be run
on a schedule of ninety hours.
The Chicago & Northwestern has issued a
new through freight tariff to Pierre and
! Northwestern Stage & Transportation com
pany points, making important changes in
rates in t'aat section.
Charles Grant of the Burlington and
Charles Kuisken of the Illinois Central are
spoken of as candidates for the secretaryship
jof the Chicago Railroad association. George
E. Charlton, the assistant" general passenger
agent of the Chicago & Alton, has also been
mentioned in the same connection.
The Omaha line has issued a tariff sheet to
agents, giving the through rates from points
on the line to Pacific coast points via Trans
continental lines. They are on the same
basis as those adopted by the Transconti
nental association on the lGtu and announced
in the Globe.
U. C. Thrall, chief clerk of the Northern
Pacific manager's department, left the city
yesterday to meet T. F. Oukes, vjee presi
dent and general manager of the company
at Omaha, on bis way from Denver
"THE HOUSE IS HAUNTED."
An Extraordinary Ghost Sensation Near a
Hoosier Hamlet-
Special to the Globe.
Indianapolis, Ind., March 24.— The peo
ple living in the neighborhood of Castleton,
a small village thirteen miles from Indian
apolis, are greatly excited over a most extra
ordinary ghost sensation . Several hundred
persons from the surrounding country liave
been crowded about the haunted spot since
last Friday. There is an old log house on
the farm of a man named Mart Garrison,
which was built half a century ago and Las
been
UNINHABITED FOR SEVEIiAL TEARS.
Last week Mr. Garrison began tearing the
old structure dowu and hauling away the
timber. Between sundown and dark on the
eyeuiug of the first day's work, while loading
his wagon, he says he became conscious
of a peculiar feeling which made his bail
stand erect with horror, and as he turned he
claims he buw three figures, two of them
quite large, flitting around the ruins. He
did not atop to investigate, but abandoned
his work and fled for home, when he related
tis experience to his wife and was advist-d
to let the old structure alone. lie talked
about the strange apparition, and (hen it
leaked out that an old citizen living near
had often seen uuearthly figures and so had
his family, and he had heard
CHIES AND GUOANS
like those of a woman in distress, but he
feared to speak of it for fear the people would
call him childish and Miiierstitious. Auothei
neighbor testified in much the same strain,
and several persons Investigated, but were
uuabic to explain the character of the phe
nomena. They saw shadowy figures
indistinctly resembling two adults and
a child, ami so did perhaps a
half score of others able to muster courage
enough to visit the old ruins. Yesterday the
farm was literally overrun with people and
reports reach the city that they fountl a grave
in the cellar, which they proceeded to open,
but Kere stopped in their work by a lady in
terested in the property. Hundreds O{ peo
ple have visited the haunted house, and
there is great excitement over it in the
neighborhood.
The Coal-Miniii); Strikers.
Pittsuuko, Perm., March 24.— A break is
reported in the ranks of the striking coal
miners. In the fourth pool 500 men are
said to have gone to work to-day on terms
offered by the operators and it is expected
the others will soon follow suit. The situa
tion alongthe railroad 1« unchanged. Botb
sides maintain firm fronts. At Scott
Haven the contemplated eviction did not
take place to-day. The miners are still in
possession of the houses and apparently have
little fear >f the order being carried out. If
the company insist upon their leaving they
will go quietly.
Crop Prospects.
CHICAGO, March 24.— The Farmers' Re
view, in a summary of the reports from cor
respondents throughout the Western states
for the week ending March 21, says condi
tions are guch tint only a comparatively
small area of spring wheat can begot Into
the v round before the Ist of April. This,
though it cannot be called late, cannot
!-<■ called early. In regard to winter wheat
it says indications -ire that, taking the de
crease in acreage and daily running down of
tbe crop prospects, we shall see tbe winter
wheat crop in quantity below that of 1883.
Thousands of Acres Opened to Kutry.
Tucson, Ariz., March 24. — An announce
ment wa« made thia morning thai the for
feited lands (if the Texas Pacific railway were
opened to entry. Tbi* canned a great nub
In the United Btatci land office. Tbe officers
have all they can do to make entries. Tbou
f-an<ih of acres will be claimed.
Omn:ui Digma'fl \V;ir Faction.
Buakim, March 24. — Ostnan Digma has
ordered his Arabs not to atto'-k tbe isritihh
:.- in entrenched Kercbas on tbe roail
to Tamai, bot to Intercept and destroy all
convoys of water ;ui'l provisions, so as to
ttarre tbe garrison i .
Tbe dead A »ba found upon thf fi<-!d mar
Tamal aft< r tbe recent engagement wen:
vtv much pmaciaied, proving Oam an '■> ■■■. i
to oe abort of f<»o<i. Two powerful native
tribes have, rebelled against tbe Mabdt
A Trying OrdeaL
Pai:i3, March — When Miss Van Zandt
came upou the stage of the Opera Corn ique
ehe was received with hisses and whistling,
which were soon drowned, however, by a
•tom of applause. Considerable curiosity Ift
felt whether Carvalbo. director of the Opera
Comiqoe, will continue the enterprise] It is
reported that 800 studcuta of the Latin quar
l'-r are coming on Timrday nigiit to make a
d^moDstratiot against the American. De
spite the organized opposition to Miss Van
Zandt I!.-- boose Is crammed nightly.
Activity at IMymnuth .Vary Yard.
Plymouth, March 24. — The naval officials
here were ordered a tew days ago to make a
iist of vessels here available for service. To
day orders were received to prepare the
vessels immediately for active service.
CONDENSED TELKOEAJI3.
! An explosion of natural gas at Beaver
1 Falls, Pa., yesterday morning demolished a
txo-fctory frame bouse and badly burned
Mre. Robert Sllet who lived in the same.
A fivt-story boaioets block on Commercial
street, Boston, was burned last night. Los»,
$75,000:
Rev. William Harris, formerly the treas
urer of Princeton college, N. J., died in the
hospital at Savannah, Ga., yesterday, of
apoplexy.
D. Rnttle & CVg pork boom at Covingtoa,
Ky., was damaged 130,000 by fire last night,
and adjoining buildings $10,000.
lfoi .• - Glorleux of Baltimore will be
consecrated vicar apostolic of Idaho the sec
ond Sunday after Easter.
. The first lacifer match wai made in 1829
