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April s.— For Wisconsin, lowa and Upper Michigan: Warmer weather; .winds shifting to southerly. For Minnesota, "Nebraska and Dakota : Slightly warmer, fair weather, followed by light rain in Minnesota find Dakota; southerly winds. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. • * s fTI - sa ft 2 3 * 2. B * eg. gel ' " ti_. =o Place of 257 =g 1 - Place of »%. »"§ Obs'vation. go §& .Obs'vation. gg, So. I Z_}\ ' I Zv f? ; ~ i a : a m \__\\ * __ St. Paul.... 30.20 40 ! Helena. ... 20.70 40 Dnlntb... 30.30 32 FLT'otteu La Crosse. i 80. 2-1 42 IFt.Sullv. . 29.08 1 56 Huron 30.12] 58] Minnedosa 3H.-02 4» Moorhead. 30.2«» 42 Calgary.... 29.48 00 St. Vincent 30.20 38 Edmonton Bismarck. 30.00 54 ilPAppelle. 52 Ft. Buford. 29.72 02 .Medico IL 29.32 71 Ft. Custer | .... ; Fort Garry I | . . . m A Nebraska farmer's patent incu bator exploded and blew 13") chickens into the misty beyond. Fowl play is suspected. Boulanger's trials and tribulations do not excite as much sympathy in this country as they should. That inarch of his rather queered him for all time. -•■ . Foub hundred organ grinders and street musicians came over from Europe on a single ship recently. If Mr. Blame lias a foreign policy, here would seem to be a gap for it. ■ . - A "newspaper has already been started in Oklahoma. What they want next is a base ball club, then a divorce suit or twe>, and the world will believe that civilization has settled down there to stay. The managers of the Washington centennial committee can obtain a few tips on how to make their little *•• hooraw " a success by closely watch ing the demonstration in honor of tho returning base ballists to-day. * "^ A Philadelphia paper reports Gen. Allen passing through that city with a delegation of Dakota braves on the way to Washington to see the Great Father about the Dakota spoils. It learns that the general is potential in the matter. m Tin: Scandinavian special cables of an ambitious morning contemporary have been dwindling away of late, and soon nothing will be left of them but a choice assortment of lower case "j's" jiikl the vanishing dream of a Swedish mission. The manner of doing a thing "makes ail the difference in the world. Now, Allard '&■ Sons reduced the revenue about $250,000 by dodging the infamous war tariff; and yet, instead of beiug hailed as patriots, they are condemned as knaves. Republics were ever un grateful. m As one looks for Samoa on the map and finds only a quiet little patch of land in a remote sea, and reads of the disasters of late about there, and all the talk both sides of the Atlantic, it is a puzzle what is up and why those old world people don't stay at home and mind their knitting, keeping out of trouble. President Harrison will make a play for the vote of the protection Dem ocrats of the .South, and in doing so will be obliged to throw the colored man and brother overboard. Poor old Uncle Ned! He has served his purpose, and, for aught bis late bosses ©are", be can go —"where the good niggers go." -•» ' One pale man, with a two-story ther mometer, is the innocent cause of con siderable heartburning clown at Sioux City and Yankton, ami it may be neces sary to call out the militia. Merchants of Yankton are boycotting Sioux City jobbers, just because the signal observer has been removed to the latter point. -^fc- Omaha has counted up 20,213 chil dren of school age, and, remembering that seven is a favorite Bible figure, uses that as a multiplier and rolls up the handsome total of 141,701 as the aggregate population. It is an active and growing city, considering its mod erate natural advantages. m* Cal and Matt McCarthy fought for the featherweight championship' of America on Long Island last night, and Cal was the victor. Clipper Dona hue and Ben Wilson also fought four bloody rounds. Having made their reputations, the gentlemen can now re tire and do battle with their jaws for the remainder of their lives. The Wisconsin papers are generally very vehement in their opposition to the bill to be voted on in the legislature of that state yesterday, providing for a medical board to be named by the governor. Persons practicing medicine -without license from the board are to be lined $500. The object of the measure is to cut off specialists. Christian scientists, magnetic and botanic heal ers, and possibly homeopaths. This would give an entire monopoly to the regulars if they happen to control the board. It is in line with the general tenor of political things to create ex clusive privileges. The Wisconsin legislature has on the •way to the statute book an act prohibit ing railroads from employing engineers **ho ever indulge in intoxicating liquors. This is another illustration of the class legislation so common this winter. Railroad authorities do not em ploy as engineers persons given to drink, and no law would make them more careful to put only persons of sober habit in responsible positions. But this sort of legislation is an impu tation upon a class notably of temper ate habits. There is no occasion for the law to come iv and insist that only total abstainers shall be employed. m+ — i The St' Louis Republic looks upon Gov. Palmer as one' of the large factors that swelled the popular tide in the re cent Chicago election. His inspiring presence and impassioned oratory were invoked now, as in . the campaign last fall, when an almost forlorn hope, was wade to sweep too city by thousands. now swelled to still larger proportions. In both Instances he was the center -of attack.' The Republic thinks the Chi-, cago result will impress upon the na tional Democracy the conviction that Palmer is the winning name for the head of the ticket in 1892. • TREE PLANTING. Gov. Mebuia.m has designated Fri day,the 26th day of this month, as Arbor day in Minnesota, and calls upon peo ple in all sections of the stale to observe j it in an appropriate way. Even before J the great tide of population began to ; flow towards our Western plains anil I prairies -the people of the East began to j turn their attention to tree culture. The j profligate waste of timber in the early ! days of American settlement soon-left the older states in a denuded condition, ! and the' supply became so scarce 'that in | many sections of the East tree culture' i became an imperative necessity. : But j when the Western prair.es were popu- j lated public interest in the subject of ; forestry became more thoroughly j awakened, until at last the government j took die matter in hand. There was a i forestry bureau established in connec- ! tion with one of the departments, and i singular inducements were offered to j the settlers in the Western states I and territories to ensrage in the business of tree planting. " Al though but a few years have i pgsed since this policy was adopted by j the government, the wisdom of it is ap parent in the number of beautiful for ests now dotting the prairies where be-! fore there was only a barren expanse. More recently a number of the states have still further encouraged tree planting by the establishment of Arbor ] day— a day that is set apart asa sort of working holiday, a day on which there is to be a relaxation of all other 7 busi ness, aud every man, woman and child in the state to devote themselves to the work of tree and shrub planting. ; Minnesota is more fortunate than most of the Western states in having a nat ural growth of timber. Yet in some of i the older settled sections . of the state j there has been the same prodigality in I the use of timber that occurred in the j Eastern states. Everywhere the. drain on the timber supply is constantly in creasing, and unless we give more at- J tention to tree culture we will soon be j in tho condition of some of the less favored Western states. ' 7 77". We concur heartily with the govern or's suggestion that- each community! observe Arbor day in a systematic way. i The desultory method of tree planting j observed in so many localities is better than none at all, and yet, if it were gone j at systematically, much better results could be had. In each town and village throughout the state there should be a j public meeting in advance of Arbor i day,- a general plan should be agreed upon, and the proper committees ap pointed to see that the plans are prop erly executed. And then every public spirited citizen will feel it to be a duty, to give his hearty individual co-opera- i tion in making Arbor day a success. RHODE ISLAND ELECTION. If it had not been for the old-time ! majority regulation in Rhode Island, the Democrats would have the governor • and most of the other state officers. Their candidate for governor had al- J most five thousand more voles than any i other man. and if the Republicans ob- ! tain a majority in the legislature that ■ body will elect their men. This vexa tious old plan has given away to the plurality system in all the Eastern states except Rhode Island. Connecticut and New Hampshire. The latter two are close states, and about half the time there is no choice for state officers, and the legislature makes the selection. For members of the legislature the same rule prevails: ami second, and even third voting trials are necessary in some | districts. It is the Republican policy to continue this system, as they are gen erally sure of the legislatures, owiug to the rotten borough representation, even when they "have not the larger popular ! vote. It gives the tea parties and kick- | ers more consequence than they have ' in the other stales, but would not be j endured in the other states. >^ 7. AX ERROR SOMEWHERE. The Dawson Sentinel says: "The twine trust is Hooding the country with a paper— the Sunday Globe— in which they try to make out that they are the farmers' slanchest friend." ' As there is but one Sunday Globe published in Minnesota, and that one is published in this office, it becomes nec essary for us to say that this paper is not the organ of the twine trust, nor of auy other trust There has never been an article of the character above men tioned in any issue of this paper, nor will there ever bo. It is possible that our Dawson friend has confounded the Globe i with some other paper. In our Wednesday's issue was a 'New. York dispatch giving infor mation about the publication of a paper called the Sunday Courier, which was a part of the twine trust's literary bu reau, and it is probable that this is what the Sentinel refers to. If #ie twine trust has been using our name to further its impositions on the farmers of the Northwest, we want to know it, and will make the perpetrators Of the act suffer for it. THE SMUGGLERS. Our English cousins are probably right when they speak of this country as being awfully new. The evidence of its freshness can be . found in our New York dispatches this morn ing, which tell how some of out millionaire art connoisseurs were bamboozled by the great smug gling firm in that city. Here was a branch of a Paris house which had not only been defrauding this government of its custom duties for years, but had been playing on the ignorance of our American art patrons by selling them pictures at fabulous prices for Rem brandts, when in fact they were only dauby imitations. How many works of this spurious character ornament the galleries of our wealthy American art patrons, for which bisr fortunes have been paid, will never be known un less the truth is revealed in the way it was done in this instance. The developments in connection with the Ai.T.vnn smuggling show either a lack of vigilance on the part of the cus tom house officers or that there has been a great deal of corruption in the service. The smuggling method pur sued by the firm was so simple one can scarcely realize how it should have escaped detection during all these years. it seems that any sort of a half witted official could have discovered it; and yet it was not until a discharged employe divulged the secret that the custom house authorities professed to know anything about it. If one firm has been smuggling on such a magnifi cent scale, why is it not possible that others have been doing the same thing? There is no reason why they should not. for such a sleepy-headed set of officials would never have found it out. And yet that is the way a great deal of the tariff tax goes. _ 7 DISRUPTING THE SOUTH. The Harbison administration lias perfected its scheme for disrupting the solid South, and the ; plan - for accom THE ! 'S^J*.-^ DAILY GLOBE: SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 0, 1880.— TWELVE PAGES. plishing the disruption is disclosed in.; the subjoined correspondence : • ■ . Natlkal BnincE, Ya.,- Feb. 22, 1889.— Thomas Sedden, Esq.— My Dear- Sir: Since onr . brief conversation I have determined to write this letter. We differ in all our past political association and in local politics, but we agree that no free trader can of right rep resent any one of the thirty-five Southern congressional districts of which we spoke four in West Virginia, two in Maryland, six in Virginia, four in North Carolina, four in Tennessee, four in Kentucky, one in Georgia, : two in Alabama, five in Missouri, one in Arkansas and two in Texas— in the congress of ; the - United . States, and that it is in the province of those who hold the prosperity of .the South above ail partisanship to make such misrepresentation impossible. In these white districts the race question is not para mount, and it is due ourselves that we dem onstrate to the . world that.the right of .citi zenship is held as sacred as in any other part of this nation. I suggest, for myself and those I may fairly represent, to yourself and tnose who assert a like independence, that we meet in Chattanooga. in May next iv con vention and 'organize a Southern Protective Tariff league, confined to the mineral dis tricts and to national politics, which shall so educate and organize our people that they may assert the balance of power they right fully hold to protect and advance the material development of the south. I further suggest that when 1.000 names are secured a call for such a convention be issued. Yours truly, 7777*77777-7 11. C. Parsons. BnaaxeOAk, Ala.. March 4. 1889.— T1. C. Parsons, Esq.— My Dear Sir: I have your letter of Feb. 22. 1 approve heartily of your suggestion. We will meet and co-operate with you in the organization of the Southern Protective Tariff league. Yours truly, Thomas Seddxh. Col. H. C. Parsons is a New England Republican who has been living in the South a good many years, and has been actively identified with the railroad and mining interests of that section." Thomas Sedden is an Alabama Democrat, who is also epgazed in mining and railroad operations. It will thus be seen that the Democrats of the South who train with Mr. Randall in advocacy -of pro tective principles propose to. pool with the Republicans of that section on the tariff, and by their united effort secure the election of protection representa tives from at least thirty-five of the Southern congressional districts.' So far as the proposed Southern Pro tective Tariff League may succeed in breaking up the Solid -South, and in thus eliminating sectionalism from na tional politics, we are inclined to wish it Cod speed. And, although we speak as.a tariff reformer, we are also grati fied that the tariff, question has been selected as the instrument of disrup tion. It will divest the question of all incidental encumbrances and bring it squarely on its merits before the people. ' The example set by the Southern pro tectionists will, in all probability, be followed by the tariff reformers of the North and West. If Republicans and Democrats in the South can clasp hands and come together into a compact or ganization in support of the protection doctrine, there is no reason why tho Republicans and Democrats of the West and Northwest should not pursue the same course in protection of their peculiar interests. The owners of the Virginia and Ala bama blast furnaces want protection. The owners of our fertile Western prai rie farms want tariff reform and a re duction of taxes. The former propose to forget all past political differences, to bury their prejudices, and to stand to gether on a common platform. Why, then, should not the farmers of the West forget their differences, bury their prejudices, and get together on their common platform? Let the Southern Protective league go ahead and do its work. Let "the solid South be disbanded. Then let the tariff reformers of all parties here in the Northwest pursue the same sensible course, and band themselves together with the determi nation to send none but tariff reformers to congress from this section. I ■ i^-to> If the migration of negroes from North Carolina to Arkansas and Texas has the proportions alleged, it is, ap parently, due to one of the freaks that possess excitable and unbalanced minds at times. There is no political feature toil: and the colored people, whether in slavery times or since, have had less race friction in that state than almost any other, as far South. It is not re ported that they have grievances to cause dissatisfaction, and yet their migration is in such number as to dis tress the industrial interests of locali ties. -^■» It has been found in the old coun tries, where statistics have long ranges and conclusions can be drawn from them with assurance and accuracy, that the general business thermometer is furnished figures by those who marry. if times are hard and business dull people don- 1 marry. If marrying goes on freely, it may be set down that things are prosperous. Romance and sentiment may come in as condiments, but the matrimonial strata are solid business. It is noted in New England that the spring connubial crop is up in the par region, and in the Northwest there arc no signs of shortage. • : ---.y'/. - In New England a town named Winchester started the scheme to elect postmasters by the vote of the partisans of the administration, and it is having a run as the Winchester plan. There is a growing disposition to branch out on. a more popular line in this matter, but the rational plan seems to be to allow all adult patrons of the office to have a voice. This would be the considerate verdict if the mind could settle down squarely upon the theory that a public office is a public trust and not a private simp. Hfsflj — ': — ■»- In tiii* report of the British post master geueral reference is had to the large aggregate of the moneys sent from this country to the members of the fam ily who remain in the old home over the water. The postal orders were larger than .before the past year, reaching ¥5,250,000. This takes a good deal of money out of the country, but it is a pretty good advertisement of the new land in the old. If the emigrants were not doing well, they would not have the money to send home. *m* The greed of European traffic forced upon Japan twenty years ago a treaty prohibiting the imposing of customs duties. It, however, overreached itself by exciting local antagonism, and the rulers quietly favored American mer chants, to the detriment of the Euro pean. This is one of the instances where the United States has found ad vantages in not having old-world en tanglements. . - „. 7 ;' -«» «. If Cop.poeal Tanneb had not lost his feet he would not have been thought of in connection with the control of the pension department. Sentiment is a good thing, but in a position that has so much to do. with business matters ca pacity and business are quite impor tant. Secretary Noble has already dis covered that he has a freak in charge to be regulated. .. . : :xx : ■^^m^ : vy It was probably an Indiana man who looked over the river and remarked: '-'How small the Ohio men are this year." ' " ' "-' . r Over 500 more failures the first three months of this year over last, don't look , like the general boom that was to come . with Hakkisox. - 7 — ■ " ' . " 7 — — — — If diseases of the body can be con- ] trolled \ by. the mind, funny people should never be sick. : If they do claim * to, be tormented in the flesh, people; credit them with trying to be funny. Here is Bill Nye obliged to give up his engagements in lowa on account of continued illness, and the local mana gers are all suing him for not keeping 3 his engagements. They suppose pro hibition didn't prohibit quite enough. If Bill should seem to die and ; be buried, many people would laugh over it as an exhibition of practical humor. - Tiie Connecticut legislature has re cently commuted the death sentence of a criminal in an aggravated case. This is a novel and very rare action for a legislature, and does not seem to have any special occasion. It is probably j due to the tendency of the legislative mind generally of late to run in nar- : row grooves, and meddle with all sorts of uncommon things. What if the mem bers, as several explained,' were op posed to capital punishment?— there should be law and a governor to take > care of such cases. " **m- Mb. Cleveland is not allowed to en joy the quietude of private life even for a short time. He has already been ap pointed a member of a park commis sion. Some Republicans are ill-hu mored enough to doubt that he will ac cept the place, as it has no good open ing for a veto. ■ The nickel five cent pieces cost the government less than a cent, and yet the only concession given the large pur chaser is the payment of transporta tion. The business is a monopoly, and pays 400 per cent. m The governor probably came near forgetting Arbor day, but people need not wait till April 20 to get the shrub bery out. «•» Mi*. Cleveland found §152,000,000 of silver coined, and he left $304,000,000. Some thought he was opposed to silver. m RAILROAD MEASURES. Two years ago the house was flooded with unconstitutional and irrational railroad legislation. Much of it was chargeable to the account of Mr. Don nelly. Despite the protests of a judiciary committee conspicuous for its legal ability, be carried some of these measures to a final passage on the strength of a demagogue and the wit of a stump orator. Had all that he planned come to pass, Minnesota in this year of grace would have been in as deplorable a stale as lowa is now. *-» This allusion to the past is in place when it is considered that the house of this year and on yesterday had be fore it two railroad bills of that bastard stripe which Mr. Donnelly delights to champion. In tlie case of each, on con stitutional, moral and financial grounds, - * the house indefinitely postponed them. Mr. Morgan and Mr. Forbes rank on the house judiciary committee as constitu tional lawyers of sound ability. Their declarations yesterday that the McKusick ' bill, which proposed to tax corporations as individuals are. wasuncoi;s:;tuii'-nal; a violation of vested contract rights now held by the railroads; a possible source of costly and perpetual litiga tion, carried conviction with them. From railroads ami other corporations the state is now deriving legally and without dispute nearly £SOO,OOO per year. This is about a tenth of the entire tax of the state for 1887, certainly a fail proportion for the present time. It is an increasing tax income under the: 3 : per cent imposition upon gross earn ings. " ; - ■ ■* * •* ',',■'-' *. ■ - '. "If," said Mr. Forbes, "we desire to increase our tax incomes from corpora-' ' tions, let us do it in the safe and con servative course of raising the gross earnings tax upon railroads to 5 per cent, and bring under taxation corpora tions now untaxed. This ;is constitu tional and legitimate as long as we do not substitute the functions of a tyrant for those of the state."' A favorite demagogic assertion made is that our state taxes constitute the greatest burden upon the people. Therefore, double the tax upon the cor porations. Granted that the tax system upon corporations is not yet perfected, and that all of the relations between them and the people are not yet hon estly adjusted, yet this proposition is false. The simon pure' state tax of 1887 was but §928,000. In comparison with this, the scliooi tax was ?3.318,000, and the county, city and town taxes over §0,500,000. The state tax was not quite one-tenth of the total tax, and the rail roads pay into the state treasury nearly one-tenth of the whole tax levied. : . The Davis bill to fix passenger rates at 2}.1 cents died easily. The freight schedule attracts more attention than passenger figures. The house felt this, and it is to its credit that both bills were postponed without the assistance of a lobby. IN LIGHTER VEIN.- Pigs in the Clover. Mrs. Briggs— You can't put 'em in the pen, can you? - . Mr. Briggs— No. The pesky little things. There they go again. "Those pigs remind me of you, John." "Why?" "Because they'd rather run around everywhere else than go home." A Temperance Lecturer. "Thomas, you liave been drinking." "My dear, I have not— not a drop." "You have. I smell whisky." "It's in my clothes, I guess. I sat next to a man in the car who had a red nose, and wanted to sell me a ticket for a lecture on total abstinence." African Explorations. "I see that Stanley has been heard from. He writes a long letter from Africa." ■7. : ':y*-7 "He has, eh? What has he been do ing for the past two years?" ; . "He spent half his time in finding. • Emm Bey, and the other half in losing him again." ; ■> He Is a Stayer. "Who was that young fellow here' last night, Maria? It was after 2 when he left." ' "He is one of the clerks at Field's, papa." _ - .'.-...-% 1 ■ . "He must have charge of the corset department -he's such a stayer" ODDS AND ENDS. In connection with the recent donation r - to the legislative reporters, several papers have used the expression : "Hard worked and underpaid newspaper men:" This is strange, after all. It must be the journalists who are given : enormous salaries for luxurious idleness. ■ ' Whoever heard of an overworked or. underpaid journalist? - ■ Ii TH • The great bulwarks of dirt and bas tiaus of paving blocks on East Seveutn street are not what they seem. ,- They are generously provided by a large-hearted corporation to keep little children off the cable track. The company might easily have hauled them off, but it pre ferred to protect the public. 7 --.. 111 - •' ■'-■ A gentleman just from Washington ■', says the. Hon. T. E. Byrnes "rattles «; around in his new position like a shot in a . thirty-foot boiler." That's Tim, ■ every time. If any one supposes he is i going to keep quiet just because he has a treasury, appointment, that person does not know - the first essential ele ment of a spellbinder, ■:. Ti If The binding twine iriisLseeiafcto bt ■ ■':'•■' - ' v - • V -,*■ stretching its Briareus , arms over Min nesota from St. -Vincent •■' to - Clam creek. It takes the shape of a "plate" paper, with interviews with cordage j firms and ship chandlers, whose love for > the -dear farmer so permeates them : that butter would not melt in their months. • - '-• ':X-".XX\kX:^ - .-.- *.--r-.- y txxxxii IT Ii II The boys are getting away with the girls in St. Paul. Last "month the colicky yells that pertain to new-born ' [infants ..came from . the throats of 1231 boys and 107 girls. Of the former, 74 were Democrats, but. the health officer has not yet been informed of the fact. .■■•-' 111! 1! " "The sale of the Ruby" in St. Paul, as given in the papers, need call out no joew sumptuary laws. The Ruby is "only a steamboat, and has no reference to tanglefoot, or even the festive Apol linaris. DIPLOMATIC* APPOINTMENTS. A senate that ccuid swallow* Allen ..Thorndyke Rice after rejecting Murat ..Halstead would be an interesting body fo look upon.— Albany Argus (Dem.) * * The appointment of Allen Thorndyke Rice as minister to St. Petersburg will at least, relieve the country of an editor who has done all in his power to de grade the standard of American litera ture.—Boston Courier (lnd.) ■ -^ j f-. * The envious newspapers of surround ing states are asking now "Who is this man John Hicks, named as minister to Peru?" Next they will intimate that they don't know where in hades Osh kosh is, or perhaps deny its existence- Milwaukee (Wis.) .Journal (Dem.) ■ It would have been curious to observe the behavior of Mr. Reid at the British court. We may do him an injustice, but if we are mistaken in thinking that within two months after his landing he would have been wearing a single eye glass and turning up his trousers when the Prince of Wales went out in the rain he can correct us.— San Francisco Examiner (Dem.) . MEN WE MEET. The paternal affection which bubbles out through every glance Dr. David Day throws upon the new court house speaks volumes of the care and interest with which he watched it grow. Dr. Day has probably felt as much interest in the new building as though it werehisown, and the public appreciates it. As the big bell bearing his name was being raised to its elevated perch in the bel fry, he stood on the sidewalk and with bated breath strained his eyes until the deep-toned boomer was safely in place. Col. Tom Lowry evidently did not feel very nervous upon being sum moned before the house committee on railroads. An amused, wonder-what l'm-here-for look shone in his eyes as he sat there and rolled out those big railroad figures just as easily and glibly as the ordinary man would talk of marbles. Tom Lowry is essentially a Northwestern product, and when he goes East he is invariably pointed out as a typical Minnesota men of wealth. And tact— is fairly brimming over with it. The men in his employ have an idea always that if they can only get his ear they will get just what they want. If they don't get it. they go away feeling as though they had got something better. '! Mayor Durant, of Stillwater, has not added an inch to his stature since last Tuesday. He took it all with the easy grace of a man who knows he is popular and feels he deserves it. As he walked into the senate yesterday, a man re marked: "Ed Durant will go to con gress some day. He is in the midst of the Democracy, and yet has the tact to keep on good terms with every faction." But perhaps Mayor Durant is quietly waiting for . the next landslide in Min nesota, and looking for something higher. Who knows? THE SAMOAN, DISASTER. The game at Samoa is not worth the candle, but three- big nations are each obliged to burn a candle, simply to see that the others do not get the game.— Philadelphia Ledger (hid. Rep.) .- '- X *■ It • .'-'.' s- y- Perhaps both Germany and the United States may ask themselves how whether there was anything at Samoa worth fighting for at the cost of 150 lives and six vessels.— Pittsburg Dispatch (lud. Rep.) * * How small, unneighbourly and wicked seems our bickering about Samoa in the light of the awful calamity that came of it! But war that has already been threatened, would be a calamity infinitely worse. Let us have peace Boston Globe (Dem.) . * * * If steam had been kept up the United States naval vessels might not have been wrecked at Apia. One of the first orders to our naval command ersat.*amoa should be: "If any one dares to haul down American steam, shoot him on • the spot."— Rochester Post-Express (lnd.) . The loss of three commonplace American war vessels in Samoa af fords the surplus spenders an excuse for howling for a new navy. In all our helplessness we were never so helpless as at.-present. At least a dozen big ironclads will be built under the cover of this new alarm.— New York World (Dem.) , ______ > ;7. MISSING LINKS. The fashion of "carrying a muff dates 000 years back. Courtiers wore them in the time of George I. 7 r 3&SIP lowa farmers last year raised enough corn to pay off all the farm mortgages in the state and leave a balance of 100, --000,000 bushels. A New Orleans minister says it is a fact that most sermons are dry • and sleep}*, but the juicy ones are always so sharply criticised that the clergy avoid them. In London.last week, 2,090 births and 1,630 deaths were registered, the annual death rate being 19.7 per 1,000. -The death rate in twenty-eight large towns averaged 21.3 per 1,000. .< "A superior house parlor maid who can teach elementary music" and "a plain cook under twenty-five, who knows shorthand," were advertised for in a recent issue of an English paper. ' One-thirtieth of the whole popula tion of Iceland emigrated last year, moved, it is said, by the unpopularity of the Danish government and the blandishments of Canadian emigration agents. ' -Services for the deaf are held in the church institute at Sheffield. The preacher speaks into a bell-shaped re ceptacle, from which tubes convey the sound of his voice to the ear of each person present. '"■John Powell says that there is a wal nut tree on his place at Gibson, Ga., that has been stone dead for seven years, but that it has come to life again and is bearing sweet/delicious walnuts as it did previous to its death. A portable house has just been com pleted down in Orlando. Fla. It has on three floors six comfortable rooms, and, being constructed in sections twenty inches wide, it can be taken down aud transported like ordinary lumber. .."'"'. MY LASSIE. O say, do you know .my Lassie? , Well maybe you think that you do. •,, You know she has cheeks like roses. , And you know that her eyes are blue. You know she Is -hearted, %-X & For you've heard her laugh as you pass; . You ye heard her bright, saucy speeches, _ ; : Still," for all, you don't know my lass. i You've never seen her at evening, XXX With her soft hands soothing my brow, -j" Driving away all those troubles ] That will come into life somehow, '" Soothe till she thinks lam sleeping j. For I'll neither move or speak. '* ■ ! i Then gently she'll stoop and kiss me, 5 = With a tear on her rosy cheek. - £ 7 Oh. you think yon know my Lassie, .', 1 . : . Think she's gay, and careless, maybe. ; : . For that is the mood she gives you: / . Her best one* She keeps all for me. - * ... x_- v yy^-rFioience 7B, Bacon, ' :\ fy BREAKWATER BIDS. Hugh Steele; the Lowest Bidder . lor the Work at Ashland. . ? : : Special to the Globe. ' .-' Dim th, Minn., April s.— Bids for constructing 3,801 linear feet of break water in Ashland harbor were opened by mayor Quinn this afternoon as fol lows, the figures representing the price per linear foot: Harris & Walfib. Detroit, Mich . $19 90 Trueman & Cooper, Manitowoc, Wis.. 2t> 00 Huston & Mitchell, Ludington. Mich.:- 10 20 N. V. Chapman, Minneapolis, Miun.. 18 20 Seh\vartz_«fc Barnes, Green Bay. Wis., 16 89 Zimmerman A- Sang. Duluth, Minn... 15 21 L. J. A eibank, Ashland, Wis 10 72 Sherwood.- Sutherland & Oakes, St. - Paul. Minn 17 70 H. I". Balch, Minneapolis, Minn 10 70 Morison, McGregor & Hanna, Duluth, Minn ;; ..- 10 81 Dear & Hayes, Duluth, Minn 18 78 Wolf & Truaxi Duluth, Minn.... 17 25 Mc-Cue& Emits, Dulath, Minn ....... IS 07 Hugh Steele, Duluth, Minn.. li 45 Thomas Dwyer, Duluth, Minu .:. 11 63 Powell & Mitchell, Marquette. Mich... 11 73 Barker & Matthews, Duluth, Minn ... 10 00 The estimate of Mayor Quinn was $10, and it is doubtful if Steele can do the word at this figure without a heavy loss. The appropriation is $72,000, aud his figures will foot up about $45,000 for the work. The remaining portion will probably be used for repairs. The Mar quette contract will soon be let and the work on all parts of the lake shore begun. The Duluth office will expend $50,000 per month for the next six months. LONSDALE'S TRAVELS. He Reached 75 Degrees North and Then Turned Back. Philadelphia, Ayril The In quirer to-morrow will print the following interesting story of Lord Lonsdale's travels: The erratic Lord Lonsdale, who was re cently reported dead in the Arctic regions, is on his way home to England again. The first " authentic news from him in months was printed in the Inquirer yesterday . morning. It was derived from a letter just received at Bethlehem from Mr. Wolf, the Mora vian missionary stationed at Nushagak, near Fort Alexandria, on Bristol Bay, Alaska, in latitude 50 degrees north, 158 degrees west longitude. Further details from the same source gives an interesting account of the Earl's trav els. Lord Lonsdale arrived at the Nushagak mission Dec. 15 of last year, after a long and tedious journey of 4,000 miles overland from Banks land, in latitude 75 deg. north This was the furthest point north that he reached. He remained at the mission until Jan. 14, of this year. His out fit at this time consisted of eight sleds and seventy team dogs in charge of Esquimaux drivers and some Indian servants. The country he had traversed from Banksland was rough and open, the snow was terribly drifted. Most of the journey was made on foot, the dogs barely managing to drag tiie camp outfit and provisions. On the Ist of December the theremome ter registered 105 deg. below the freez ing point. Terrible blizzards swept across the country continually, and the utmost exertions were neces sary to keep the party from being scattered aud frozen to death. Eleven dogs died of overwork and exposure. Lord Lonsdale estimate's that he traveled by dog sled and on foot about 10,000 miles from Winnipeg in a little more than 'a year. In the Hudson bay region, where the snow and ice were smooth, the dogs frequently carried them over 200 miles a day. He left the mission at Nusha gak Jan. «14, and with his dog train started across the peninsula to Katmai, on the North Pacific. From here he crossed to Kadiac, on Kadiac island, where there is a whaling station. The curl sent word that he would sail for England at once, but no news has been received of his arrival at any American port and it is possible that he has turned whaler to get some new experiences. It is now about two years since Lord Lons dale came into particular notoriety in New York as toe manager of the Violet Cameron Opera company. «■ THE BONDS BROKEN. Maggie Mitchell Secures a Di vorce From Henry T. Paddock. Trenton, N. J., April 5.— A divorce has been granted Maggie Mitchell, the actress, from her husband, Henry T. Paddock, by Chancellor McGill, the decree having just been filed in the chancery office in this city. The evidence in the case was taken in New Jersey and New York, and the com plainant's main charge was adultery on the part of her husband in 1882 and ISS4, with one Minnie E. Moore, who was then living in Syracuse. Maggie Mitchell, about a year a half ago. found a letter addressed to her husband. She thought it was a business letter, and was shocked at its con tents. It was written by Minnie Moore, whom she subsequently met in .Syra cuse. The latter acknowledged that she had been intimate with Paddock, and furnished Miss Mitchell with what the latter considered convincing proofs of her husband's infidelity. Then Miss Mitchell instituted proceedings for a divorce." Paddock filed an answer to her biil of complaint denying that he had been guilty of adultery with any one, but he failed to take the witness stand in the case. Minnie Moore said .under oath that he had been intimate with Her. Oranda Moore, Minnie's mother testified that, she knew Paddock, and was aware of her daughter's meeting with him and of their intimate acts. Doth eeclared that they did not know teat Paddock was a married man until 1884, when they saw him last. It was put in evidence by Maggie Mitchell that there was no collusion between her and Paddock to secure the divorce. Minnie Moore is reformed since her marriage and volunteered to be a wit ness in the case. The decree was signed by the chancellor upon the advice of Adbisory Master S. M. Dickinson, of this city, to whom all the evidence was submitted. Maggie Mitchell mar ried Paddock on July IS, 1869, and lived with him until the discovery of the Minnie " Moore letter. Their resi dence, she stated, had always been Long Branch. She was a true and faithful wife and had supported him out of her means. She had frequently heard charges affect his character, but did not put any faith in them until Minnie Moore told her story. ' The chancellor acted promptly, in view of the fact that Paddock refused to testify in his own behalf, and consented to submit the case without argument of counsel. Paddock, in his answer to the bill of complaint, as serted that his troubles . with his wife grew out of her employment of a cer tain performer whom he wished her to discharge, which wish had not been re spected or obeyed. — A Pish Firm Fails. Boston, April s.— lsaac Rich & Co.. 70 Kilby streei, the oldest fish house in the city, is financially embarrassed. Its liabilities are placed at 1200.000 and nominal assets at $225,000. The firm was part owner of the steamer Haytien Republic, which was seized at : Hayti, and recently sold in this city. The troubles at Hayti and the closing of several ports there are said to have had much to do with the firm's present trouble, m . ; Taking in Florida. Jacksonville, Fla., April s.— Ex- ' Senator Davis and party, including Mrs. McKee, arrived here to-day and visited ' the subtropical exposition. At 4 o'clock the party proceeded to St. Augustine, j . where they will remain a day or two before taking a trip to Palatka and up ; the St. Johns river._ ' The King of Holland Dying. The -Hague, April The king of Holland has \ had another relapse, and , his death is expected at any moment. ; ; >^»- Steamship Arrivals. .< New York, April 7 C— Arrived; 1 Adriatic, Liverpool; Santiago, .'Nassau i MINNEAPOLIS "xX- DRUNKEN ANTICS. What an 7 Alleged Assault Sim-' . mers Down to. Patt Curran, the man who went into Mrs. Alice Fellows' house at Thirty second avenue north and Washington Thursday evening, and made an assault on her,' was before the court. Mrs. Fel lows said that he caught hold of her and she tried to strike him with a hammer. He took the weapon from her and then held her by the wrist. She threw water on him but he would not desist, although he did not make any -indecent proposals to her or attempt to take any liberties with her person. She finally succeeded In at tracting the attention of a policeman, and Curran was locked up. Cur ran said he did * not remember .anything of the occurrence, and said if he had done anything of the kind it was while he was intoxicated. The court concluded to impress the matter on Curran's memory by sending him to the work house for ninety days. HE HAS RETURNED. The Mayor Is at Last With Us Once More, Mayor E. C. Babb returned home yesterday after a six weeks' tour in the South, and, thanks to the tea time sheets, an anxious public is already aware of how he has suffered with a cold, how he observed that the climate in the South was different from that of Minnesota, how dull and unenter prising be considered all other cities,and how he was paid marked attention at the White houses while in Washington; about his eating oranges at Phelps' orange grove, and how he protected President Harrison from the assaults of the inclement weather. Mayor Babb says that he is glad that Acting Mayor Johnson signed the base ball ordinance. TRADES AND LABOR Day Work on the Court House Asked For. The Trades and Labor assembly last night passed a resolution protesting against the passage of the bill increasing the court house commission to twelve. A committee was appointed to wait on the court house commission to- have the work done by day labor. They called attention to the fact that the council had just paid about $50 more for a sprinkler by contract than they paid last year by day labor. They extended an invitation to J. 15. Bassett-' to discuss ,the eight hour question before the as sembly next week at their regular meet ing. JOHN MURRAY GONE. The Veteran Actor Passes Away in .Marshall town, 10. John Murray, old actor, well-known in Minneapolis, died in Marshalltown, 10., day before yesterday, after an ill ness of some length. Murray was known all over the country in theatrical circles. He stood high in the profes sion until he began to drink heavily. Then his wife, known as Grace Haw thorne, left him, and John went all to pieces. Some eighteen months ago lie played a short engagement at the Pence Opera house here. He May Die. Edward Johnson, a laborer living at 030 Pierce street northeast, fell from the new bridge in course of construc tion across the east channel from Main street southeast to Hennepin island, yesterday afternoon, breaking his left wrist and right leg below the knee, and driving a spike through the bones of his nose at a point, about half an inch pelow the eyes. lie is also thought to have sustained internal injuries. He was taken home and attended by Dr. Seribner, but was subsequently re moved to the city hospital, He may die. y;; -y. • Death of Mrs. McCabe. . Mrs. Hannah E. McCabe, mother of Joseph McCabe, superintendent of the St. Paul division of the Northern Pa cific, died on Thursday at Jamestown, N. D., aged fifty-six years. The re mains will be taken to Watertown, Wis., where Mrs. McCabe resided twenty-one years, for interment. A. J. McCabe,' superintendent of the Dakota division of the Northern Pacific, is also a son of the deceased. Small Prairie Fire. Sparks from the engine on the 10:07 Manitoba train caused a prairie fire at the Fridley farm yesterday morning, de stroying a considerable quantity of hay and wood belonging to Mr. Tuthill, and a barn and haystacks owned by 11. Frid ley. The loss* is over £1,000. AMUSEMENTS. The last performances of "A Hole in the Ground'] will be given at the Grand this afternoon and evening. Matinees at all the theaters to-day. Local theatergoers are on the gui vive concerning the production of "High Tide" by Percy Weadon, of the Grand. The farce-comedy will be presented at the Grand Thursday next, with a "strong company. The comedy event will be the appear ance of Roland Reed at the Grand opera for three nights, commencing Monday, April S, when he will present his popu lar success, "The Woman Hater," which he has played throughout the East to a succession of crowded houses, Its run in New York was phenomenal. A number of comic songs and medley duets are introduced during the play. His many admirers will be pleased to learn that Edwin Barbour, formerly of the People's, in this city, will soon be with us again. Next week he is to hold forth at the Hennepin in his own com edy,"] entitled "A Legal Document." The play is said to be full of ridiculous situations and to contain some very bright dialogue of a very high order. The press, wherever the company has played, speaks very highly both of the company and the play. In New Or leans, where they have a return elate, the press speaks especially well of them. Miss Alice Kemp and "Little Florrine"' are with the company, the latter having a very strong part." The box office sale opens up well, and the indications are for large bouses. MUSICAL AND SOCIAL. Thomas T. Drill's Song: Recital at Dyer's-^ Announcements. The song recital given at Dyer's music hall last evening by Thomas T. Drill, the basso can tan te, was one of the brightest musical entertainments that an audience has listened to there this season. The hall was filled with a splendid audience ot musical people who know how* to appreciate good music, and the applause they gave every number was a fitting criterion of - its worth. Mr. Drill, who is only lately from New- York city, is said by many of the musicians present last night to possess one of the best voices of any of the musicians who have been fortunate enough to locate in Min neapolis, He is of the pure Italian school. His rendition of the popular "Two Grenadiers'' at the first of the programme, gained him a place in the hearts of his audience. His rendition of "Lord God of , Abraham" was in the true oratorio style, and the high musi cians present were carried away with it. H. Irvin Proctor, as pianist, ap peared twice, and of course,- was en thusiastically received, as he always is. . Minneapolis people never cease "to be pleased with his playing. L. A. Darling was accompanist. • Mr. Drill has ."been secured by the Hennepin avenue Meth odist church. . The .ladies of 7 Rev. Dr. Jansoii's church held a pleasant social at the' church Thursday evening. The Swedish guards ' gave a concert Thursday evening at Swedish Brothers' hall. 7-. On Monday evening next the Colfax i Dramatic association will give a play at . the -Twenty-seventh Street hall entitled "The Worn Document." ~ It is to be for the benefit of the Young I Ladies' Sew. ing society of the Eighth ward. '< The Cedar Avenue- and Lake Street Improvement association gave a dance last night at its hall, corner of Cedar and Lake streets. ;: A concert was given last night at the Lyndale Congregational church. Miss Susie McKay, Prof. G. Johnson. W. B. • Heath, E. P. Loye and Mrs. Laird, th <- elocutionist, took part. The Silverthorn club had a social party and dance at Berglund's hall las) ; evening. PERSONAL MENTION. John G. Wooley has gone to New York. Mell Eddy lias returned after a fe\> months' Eastern trip. Communications have^been received from Rev. C. O. Cassel. of Rock Island, stating that he has accepted a call to Duluth. O. A. Timmins and wife, residents of Franklin avenue, arrived in Minneapo lis yesterday afternoon, after a tout months' visit at Astoria, Or. Rev. C. W. Boquist has come to Min neapolis from Red Wing to take charge of the North Minneapolis department of the Swedish mission tabernacle. ROCK ISLAND CHANGES. The C, K. & N. Made a Part of tho Old System. Chicago, April..—A general order has been issued by Preside-no Cable, of the Rock Island, announcing that the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway company assumes the operation of the Chicago. Kansas & Nebraska, in Kan sas, Colorado and the Indian territory, as a part of its own line. Here tofore the latter, while virtually a part of the Rock Island system, was under separate management. This consolidation extends the jurisdiction of General Manager St. John to Indian territory and Colorado Springs. R. 11. Parker, until now general manager of the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska" rail way, has been assigned to other duties, which will bring him back to Chicago. President Cable also announces the an pointment of Thomas F. Withrow, who has held the position as general solici tor, as the general counsel of the coiw solidated companies. Ballast. George W. Andrews lias been ap pointed Southern passenger agent of the Kansas City road. He will have an office at Cincinnati and control over Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, St. Louis, Mo., and Louisville, Ky. J. S. McCullough. assistant general passenger agent of the Omaha, has re turned from Chicago. P. A. Rockwell, assistant general passenger agent of the Eastern Minne sota, returned from Chicago yesterday, G. C. GilfiUan. ot the St. Paul & Du luth, is back from Cedar Rapids. B. I). Webber, of Boston, general Eastern freight agent of the Canadian Pacific Dispatch, was in the city yes terday. " E. B. Wadsworth, general agent of the Northern Pacific at Chicago, is in the city. General Manager Winter, General Counsel Howe and General Freight Agent Clarke, of the Omaha, will re turn this morning from Tecamah, Neb. A meeting of the Northern Jfreighl committee of the Western Freight As sociation will take place at the Omaha offices this morning. Next week the Manitoba will com mence its Minnetonka service. During the week two wild trains will be run every day, and the regular service will commence on Saturday. The Wisconsin Central is now run ning its train leaving Chicago at 10-xa a. m. through to Ashland via St. Paul and Minneapolis; and is also running a train from Chicago to Chippewa I alls and Eau Claire, leaving Chicago at 7:25 a. m. . XL::' . .•-. ->* ;-V- The rates on flour from St. 'Paul"via the Soo and lake routes eastward are as follows: Boston, Si}_ cents; New York, riT 1 .; cents: Philadelphia, 25" .. cents: Buffalo. 17 : .: cents. The Northern Pacific sent out a train of twenty-one cars with every seat oc cupied, yesterday. They are doing a tremendous through to the coast busi ness. i- -«»»■ BOOTH IS BETTER, And Thinks He Will Be Able to Resume Work Next Week. New York, April s.— Edwin Booth passed a very comfortable night in his apartments at the Players" club on Gra mercy square. He slept well, and was much stronger this morning, showing no traces of his long journey. At 9:30 he walked into the breakfast room and ate a hearty meal. He returned to his apartments by way of the staircase, sav ing that he did not feel it neces sary for him to use the elevator. lie telegraphed Lawrence Barrett, assur ing him that he would be- able, unless some unforeseen circumstance should occur, to rejoin him next week and com plete their tour. -m*- TOURISTS', TICKETS. New Regulations of the Western States Association. Chicago, April 5. — The - Western States Passenger association completed a three days' session to-day. New reg ulations were adopted in regard to the issuance of tourist tickets with a view to preventing rate disturbances from that source, it was agreed to make no reduction in fares for the cen tennial celebration of Wasliinton's inauguration from points" west of Chi cago. A resolution was adopted pro viding that the tickets of all the roads in the association be withdrawn from sale at the joint agencies in the leading hotels of this city May 1. Thus Far a Tie. Providence, R. 1., April The town of Foster elected a senatorand representative to-day— Repub licans—which makes the legislature a tie on joint ballot: Senate, Repub licans 28, Democrats 10. . House, Re publicans 24, Democrats 37. There are fourteen more postponed elections to bu -decided. Canadian Pacific Legislation. Ottawa, Out., April s.— The house of commons to-day went into committee of the whole on the bill respecting the Canadian Pacific railway, giving tho company increased borrowing powers and power to consolidate its bebt. The bill will come up for third reading on Monday. . . The Peruvian Cabinet. Lima, Peru. April 5.— new cabinet has been formed as follows; Minister of state, police of public works, Pedro Alexandrine de Solar: minister of war. Gnillieimo Ferreylos: minister of justice, Guillielmo A. Zone; minister of finance? Eulogio Delgado; minister of foreign affairs, Manuel Yrigoyen. On Their Uppers. Pittsburg, Pa.. Apiil 5.— A special from Newark, 0.. say-: Owing to very * poor business the -William MeCready "Black Flag compang stranded 7 bore to-day.* The company numbers about twenty persons. All the receipts of the door were taken to , pay hotel bills. Another performance was advertised for to-day in order to raise funds to get out of town. . Digging for a Meteor. PoRTLAxn.Or., April s.— The brilliant meteor observed from this city Sunday evening was also seen at points'extend ing "north from here to Puget Sound. A resident of Yelm Prairie. Wash., claims that the meteor fell on his farm, and lie is searching . for fragments. He says the meteor made a noise like thunder.