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Fourth Page 5 cents per line every insertion. Third Page 5 cents per line for the first week. All subsequent insertions 3 cents per line. Display Advertising (on Fourth Page only) double above rates. All Advertising is computod as Kon pareil, 10 lines to an inch. Reading Matter Notices, First, Second and Fourth Pages, 25 cents per lino. "Social Locals," Second Page, 15 cents per line. The GLOBE offers no yearly space, but proposes to charge by the line for the space occupied, and the charge for the last day will be the same as for the flrut, no matter how many insertions are made. Rates are fixed exceedingly low, and no charge is made for changes, as it is preferable to have new matter every dav if possible. Kiing Matter Notices, Third Page, 20 cents per line. ST. PAUL, FMDAY, JULY 12, 1878. THAT speech of acceptance prepared by "Wash, ten years ago has finally become of service. FLKTCHEB was unkindly treated. It was cruel to give him a vote of lack of confidence after having accepted his programme and candidate. HORACE WHITE thinks Edmunds will beat Grant as the next Republican candidate for President. Horace, in 1872, was quite as positive that Greeley would knock Grant's Presidential aspirations into a cocked white hat. As champion dirt eaterB the Ramsey county delegates to Washburn's convention are en titled to the prize. The amount of dirt which they consumed on Wednesday demon strated their superiority to the Digger In dians. IF the army of tramps who tried to seize a train at Beloit on Wednesday for the pur pose of reaching Minnesota succeed in reach ing their destination, the police should wel come them with open arms to the hospitable stone pile. THE battle of the Boyno will be fought over again to-day at Montreal, and it is probable that the bloodshed will be quite as great as it was two hundred years ago. Fanaticism among tho descendants of the Hibernians who cut each other's throats two centuries ago, appears to be on the increase instead of on the wane. Wny not do the thing up brown while we're about it? Let's send W. D. to Con gress from Minnesota, Elihu B. from Rlinois, O. G. from Wisconsin, AV. B. from Massa chusetts, and Israel from Maine. Then, if the family is not satisfied, we can send Elmer to the court of St. James, or create anew State for his especial benefit. SENATOB RAMSEY did not propose to dance at his own funeral, and hence declined to attend Washburn's convention, though in Minneapolis during the proceedings. Bluff Aleck is astonished and disgusted. Aston ished to think that his own name was not put in as a compromise, and disgusted to see Washburn fastened upon the party. "THEKE'H nothing like hay when a man's thirsty," said the king to little Alice in her trip to Wonderland. "I should think water would be better." timidly ventured Alice. "I didn't say there was nothing bettei re joined tho king, "I said there was nothing like it." So reason the Republicans of the Third Minnesota district. ''There's nobody like Washburn when a party's in need of a candidate." SENATOB BAYABD hit the nail on the head when he wrote to Tammany: The great issue of the immediate future, ib in my judgment, tho solemn and resolute de termination by our countrjmen that elections shall be free, shall be the actual expression of the opinions and wishes of the citizens, and that they shall be honestly and fully acquiesced in by the defeated party. The Democratic party must insist upon this. They must fearlessly defend the freedom of the ballot and insist that the will of tho people shall bo enforced. This is the main issue between them and the Republicans, and we must keep it before the people in sea son a ad out of season. KEV, finding that he has been almost for gotten by the newspapers, has had himself interviewed again, and delivers himself of tho remark that tho Potter investigation is "a foolish piece of businessthe committee haven't found anything yet never will find anything." Let's see. Wasn't it Key that declared that the Potter committee was a revolutionary junta, plotting all sorts of mischief? And didn't he predict a terrible civil war if they were allowed to carry out their purposes? If he's the same man. how comes it that the character of the committee has undergone such a transformation in his eyes? ONE of the hopeful signs of the times is seen in the platforms of the Democratic con ventions, wherever held. The party is taking a strong, aggressive jsition on all the ques tions at issue before the people. While the Republicans are dodgingfilling their plat forms with commonplaces having no rela tion whatever to current events, the Deru orats fearlessly take ground on questions of finance, economy and reform, and announce their position so clearly that he that runs may read. They occupy no equivocal ground, but enter upon tae Congressional campaign with a determination to win. and wi on the merits of their cause. e8U i 8 cannot be doubtful under the circumstances. Success certain it is the reward of every aggressive cause. THESE appears to be no end to theories nbout the Sherman letter. Every man who ever lived in Louisiana has one, at least, and ii fn tfiiniMmiinnimii ratmigB,iSTnr-..firTrmgiwyrrti^w Pj*i"iHji^qn uirinir-j|i frt^-pM-*' ^JFf^^*tW "^FPl^l^-^^^P '1,,ua5^1^^P many of them half a dozen. Ex-Gov. AVar moth, not to be behind, has evolved one out of his inner consciousness. He believes that Sherman wrote a promise to provide for Anderson, and Mrs. Jenks put it in her pocket, and had a fictitious letter forged to appease Anderson, while she kept the origi nal to trade on with bkerman, and probably has made a good trade. Warmoth says both Jenks and Anderson are original scoundrels. A very ingenious theory, but in order to swallow it we must needs believe that Mrs. Jenks was gifted with prescience, and knew exactly what has since transpired. Agnes is smart, but not smart enough to play such a game. WHEN John Sherman made hia Fourth of July oration to the people of Wilkesbarre, Pa., he went out of his way to upbraid his hearers for their improvidence, and declared that there was no reason why anybody should be poor. Five hundred dollars, he said, were all that were necessary to give a man a good start in life. When some in quisitive auditors asked where the five hun dred dollar* could be had the pirate was dumb, whereupon loud cries for Mrs. Jenks arose, and the speaker's voice was drowned. The audience rightly surmised that if Sher man could not tell them how to raise the wind Mrs. Jenks could. THE El'JtOl'EAy SETTLEMENT. It is apparent from tho cable dispatches that Lord Beaconsfield's roup d'etat, by which he has managed to gain for Great Britain the controlling power in the affairs of Asia, is universally regarded as a master ly stroke of policy which will redound to the great advantage of the British empire. The acquisition of the island of Cyprus i- almost as essential to the control of the Mediter ranean as Gibraltar, for it i-3 within a few hours' of Port Said and Alexandria, and com mands the whole Syrian coast. From Cyprus an immense force could be thrown upon the main land at an hour's notice piepared to act either on the offensive or defensivo against England's enemies. An actual foothold will also be obtained in Asia Minor, and a rail road constructed down the Euphrates valley to the Persian gulf, which will be of ines timable benefit as a means of transporting troops and munitions of war. Tho wisdom of tho movement is further shown by the fact that tho provisions of the treaty were Iiresented to the representatives of France, who cordially approved them as giving still greater security to French interests, both in the Mediterranean and in Egypt. This would indicate not only the tacit consent of France, but her hearty co-operation, and gives color to the recent leports th*it during the pendency of the negotiations of the congress an alliance has been formed between that country and England. It is very certain that never before have their relations toward each other been as cordial, both officially and socially, as at present. The heir to the British throne has been received at Paris with an informal cordiality that could only spring from a sincere attachment existing between the two nations. And in the con gress the plenipotentiarie of France stood side by side wt those of England, silent yet powerful allies, their whole aim seemin to bo to serve the British nation. The consummate skill with which Eng land's cause has been managed, has given the nation a prestige it has not before en joyed since the close of the Crimean war. Russia has not been unnecessarily humiJiated. She has received in territory a fair compen sation for the expenses of the war. but a line has been marked beyond which she has been given to understand she must not go. Aus tria has been conciliated a large slice of the Turkish empire, and made the firm ally of England. All the nations have been plodgod to the guarantee of the right of the remaining States of tho Ottoman empire to govern t'lemselvos. This of itself is a powerful though covert blow at the ambition of the Czar: lor in any future war upon the Turks, Russia would be com pelled, by her geographical situation, to invade and perhaps overthrow one or more of these States, which would at once array tho whole of Europe against her. As tor further aggressions upon Asiatic Tnrkey, that is out of the question, Tho moment her troops crossed the line ol demarkation laid down by tho congress, she would be attacking England for by the terms of the Anglo-Turkish treaty Asiatic Turkey is as much apart of the British Em pire as if it was actually incorporated with it. There is no disguising the fact that in the diplomatic battle which has been waged for some time past Russia has come off second best. She has not been openly humiliated, but bhe has been environed with stipulations that virtually make her a prisoner on hex own territory. She dare not move in any direction without being placed in the attitude of attacking the interests of every power on the continent. It is an ingeniously con structed web, and so completely, is the Czar enmeshed that he can neither move to the right hand nor the left without provoking the hostility even of his most friendly neighbors. UTILIZE THE AiiMY. The military authorities are loud in their complaints of the insufficient force at their command for the task of subduing the In dian war now in progress in Idaho and Ore gon, and are clamoring for a further increase of the army. How unreasonable are these complaints and how senseless the demands for more soldiers is apparent to every one who takes the trouble to inquire into the facts. Tho present law authorizes the mainten ance of an army of 25,000 men. It is noto rious that not a single company in the entire army has a full complement of men, and many of them are less than half full. The entire available fighting force of the army does not exceed 17,000 men. The question may be asked why, if the army is so very in adequate, an effort is not made to recruit it up to the full force? There are plenty of men who would gladly join the ranks if the opportunity was offered them. But recruit ng is stopped entirely, and the war depart ment appears to prefer skeletons of com panies rather than the number required by law, probably to accommodate a lot of lazy officers who would rather lounge about Washington or show their epaulets in the streets of cities than perform the active du ties for which they are hired and paid. There are at present but two points where troops are requiredon the Rio Grande and on the Western front.eryet h?S3 than one third of the troops are stationed so as to be available for duty at either of these points. One company of the First regiment of artil lery is at Fortress Monnoe J, W^ 4^^te"^^!rWi,^^S'*WP$?%WJ*i* scattered about New England, where they are as useless as a fifth wheel to a wagon. Eight companies of the Second regiment are stationed in Maryland and Virginia and the balance in Texas. The Third regiment is in New York, where it is not needed, and the Fifth is in the South, where it has no duty to perform. The cavalry may be said to be all on duty on the frontier, save a company here and there. Of the infantry the entire Thirteenth regiment is in the South so is the Eighteenth. The Twenty-second and Twenty-third regiments are in Michigan and Kansas, where there is no use for them. The remainder of the regiments are doing duty in garrisoning forts in Dakota, Mon tana, Wyoming, Arizona. New Mexico and Texas. There are only about 2,200 troops, all told, engaged in operations against the Bannocks and their allies, who number, ac cording to the latest and most reliable data, nearly 5,000 warriors. It would be a liberal estimate to allow five thousand men for garrison duty at Eastern, Southern, and Western points remote from the scenes of strife. Computing the present force of tho army at 17,000 men, this would leave 12,000 soldiers who could be placed in the field and made effective against the Mexicans or Indians. And if the army was recruited up to its maximum strength there would be a force of 20,000 men ready for active duty a number sufficiently large for all contingen cies that may arise either on the Southwest ern or Western frontiers. It would be the part of wisdom if tho military force would stop their grumbling about the smallness of the army for a little while, and devote some attention to filling up its depleted ranks and properly disposing the existing force. Let the four regiments now in New York, New England and Michigan be sent forward to light the Bannocks let their strength be increased by details from the unneccessarily large garri sons west of the Mississippi river but remote from all danger of attack let the five thou sand men stationed at the South be sent to the Rio Grande, and in less than a month we would hear the end of Mexican raids and In dian wars. Wo have troops enough. All we need is to have them properly utilized. THE ISSUE MADE VI'. The nomination of W. D. Washburn for Congress places a very clear and distinct issue before the people. Deny it as he may, every one understands that he received his nomination to Congress by the use of money. If the people had been left to themselves they would have retained J)r. Stewart, at least a second term. He has made a faithful, attentive Representative. No one finds fault with, or unkindly criticises his labors, but suddenly he is repudiated and disgraced with the most remarkable degree of unanimity. The causeless uprising extends from one end of the district to the other. It knows no east, no west, no north, no south, but lises up like a whirlwind and dethrones a faithful public servant. This course is, withal, in violation of all law and custom in the party whereby a faithful official always secures a second term as an endorsement, if he de sires. No one is so verdant as to imagine that there is any such popular outburst for Wash burn. It would be impossible to voluntarily secure such an expression for any man living, under such circumstances. Mr. Washburn desired to go to Congress, and bought the nomination. That is all. Not always buy ing a delegate outright, but pajiug some one for securing them, and, doubtless, in many instances, paying the delegates direct. A nomination secured in such a manner is without binding effect upon a political party. It absolves every member of the parly from obligation to support the nomi nee. In fact, there is no popular nominee. It is simply a purchase. The Republicans of Minnesota are strong enough to be able to afford to repudiate a purchased nomina tion. Public and political morality demand that it shall be repudiated. If the Republi cans concede that such a nomination is binding they sound the death knell of their party. It will degenerate into corruption most appalling. It will be public advertisement that here is a congres sional district where the result is determined by barter and sale. Merit, the popular will, experience, past resources, all go for naught, and the standard of corruption is boldly and triumphantly raised. The defeat of Mr. Washburn would ulti mately strengthen the Republican party of this State. It would stamp the seal of disap probation upon the man who could present no other claim than the cash to make the pur chase. The next Republican standard bearer, after such a defeat, would be a man selected by the party organization, without molesta tion. The friends of Dr. Stewart will not forfeit their party allegiance by sustaining his inde pendent candidacy. They will simply be re pudiating corruption, and in reality strength ening their organization. IT has finally dawned upon the stupid mind of Tecumseh Sherman that the army retains a few of its powers, notwithstanding the posse comitatus clause of the army bill. He has accordingly defined what constitute the duties of the military under the consti tution and the laws, and it will be seen by a perusal of his order that the clause in ques tion has not left the army quite as useless a body of men as he has repeatedly asserted it would be. Even under his construction of the bill it will be seen that the army has all power necessary to maintain the public peace, and in several respects its privileges would yet bear a little curtailment. THE Dispatch and Pioneer Press both eat dirt and AVashburn's humble pie. They know the scoundrelly tactics by which AVashburn secured the nomination and en dorse them. They consequently paint him as an agent of light, worthy of love and ad miration. Sherman's Resumption Scheme. NEWYOBK. July 11.The conference cf Secretary Sherman to-day with representa tives of the late syndicate was informal, and according to the best information to be ob tained related solely to the question of re sumption. Mr. Sherman expressed confi dence in his ability to resume at once if necessary, and the bankers were generally of opinion that there was nothing to prevent resumption to-day. The secretary said al though he could not begin to redeem green backs before January, yet it was in his power at any time to pay checks and drafts upon the treasury in specie, and intimated that he would soon begin to do so. No specific date was named, but a member of the syndicate said after the conference that he would not be surprised to see the treasury paying out the balance are I gold on or before the 1st of August. mfwiwyii[ tnm,*mmmit ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1878. SUPREME COURT. FULL TEXT OF HECISIOX FILED YESTERDAY. Ami Gavin, appellant vs. Thomas Murphy and Bridget Murphy, respondents. OPINION. The facts in this case as found by the court below are that, on July 10th, 1871, the defend ants (Svho are husband and jfvif e) and the plain tiff entered into a prol agreement, whereby de fendants agreed to sell and convey to plaintiff and plaintiff agreed to purchase of defendants for the price of five hundred dollars a parcel of land 40x100 feet to be selected by the parties out of a larger tract of land owned by defend ant, Thomas, and situated in the city of St. Paul. From the location of the tract and of certain streets it was supposed by the parties, that a street called Melrose avenue might at some future time be extended and opened by the city across said tract, and as a part of the agreement aforesaid, it was agreed ''that the parcel so sold and conveyed by defendants to plaintiff should be exclusive of Melrose avenue, and that it should be so selected that no part of it should come within Melrose avenue when ex tended and opened, if ever." In pursuance of their agreement the parties selected from the tract mentioned a certain parcel, believing that the same would be exclusive of Melrose avenue if the same should be opened and extended as aforesaid." Plaintiff had said parcel surveyed and thereupon on July 10th, aforesaid defend ants executed and delivered to plaintiff a deed of the same, and plaintiff having paid the pur chase money agreed upon, took actual posses sion of the parcel, and ever since has been and now is in possession. At the time when the sale and conveyance were made the city did not contemplate the opening or extension of Melrose avenue across the tract mentioned, neither had any action been taken towards procuring such opening or extension, and the paitieb did Hot and could not then k.iow that it ever would be opened or extended, or what portion ot the tract would be taken if it ever should be opened. On April 13th, 1875, the ity commenced pro ceedings for the purpose of opening said ave nue across said tract of land, and such proceed ings were thereupon had that before the com mencement of this action, the same was duly opened and extended across said tract, and across a portion of the parcel conveyed as afore said to the plaintiff, and such portion has been condemned by and the title thereof become vested in be id city. Until the summer of lb77, the parties olid not know where the lines of i avenue would run, or what land would be taken therefor. Plaintiff made no objection to the description of the land conveyed to her as aforesaid until sometime in the summer of 1877, when she ascertained that a portion of said parcel was taken by said avenue. Upon this state of facts the court below came to the conclusion that the plaintiff was entitled to no relief. The plaintiff insists that she is entitled to have the deed reformed as respects the descrip tion of the premises conveyed by it. or to have the-agreemententered into between her and the defendants specifically performed. Whtu a deed is reformed as respects the description of the premises conveyed by it. it is upon the ground that the description is not what the paities intended. If the description is that application of this rule disposes of the plain tiff's claim of a reformation this case. By the terms of the agreement the parties were to se lect a parcel ol land no part of which should fall within the limits of Melrose avenue v.! en extended and opened, if it ever was. It wan not certain that the avenue would ever be extended or opened, or what portion ot the tract out ol which the selection was to be made would be occupied by it, if it ever was opened. Its course, therefore, in case it should be extended and opened was matter of conjecture. Upon this basis of understood conjecture a parcel was selected by the parties and conveyed to the plaintiff by the deed now sought to be re formed. The resul is tha the description found in land there which the parties intended. That- the deed did not fulfil the expectations of the paitieR, or either of them, is not important. It was made just as they intended to make it. The descrip tion was of the veiy land which the parties had selected, but in making the selection they erred in a matter ot i t.i" ii' .'ture as to a future event. Such a state ol tactb lurnishes no ground for a reformation of the deed. The claim of specific performance must also he denied. The parties did just what they agreed to do, and what they intended to do. They were to select a eeitain parcel of land upon what was, as we have been, a basis of pure conjecture. They made the selection upon this basis, and the plaintiff received a conveyance accordingly. The thing which they agreed to do, and intended to do. is. already peiformed, and there is no occasion for any further per formance. The parties might have agreed that if the avenue should be extended and openhd across the parcel selected and conveyed to the plain tiff then, and in that case the defendant should convey to her other lands in lieu of or as an equivalent fur the land taken by the avenue. The agreement might then have been what the plaintiff supposes the agreement, which was really made, to have been, and if in other re spects valid, the plaintiff might have been en titled to some such relief as she seeks in this action. But the ca^e thus supposed, is entire ly different from the case actually presented. It is not altogether clear to us whether the plaintiff's brief claims that in any event she is entitled to have the deed rescinded and compen sation awarded her or not, if any taiclx claim made, no further argument can be needed to show its untenability. As to the newly dis covered evidence, it is apparent that it was wholly irrelevant, unless the complaint was amended. As the court below declined to per mit the complaint to be amended, and there is no reason for supposing that it abused its dis cretion in so doing, it is evident that the mo tion for a new trial, so far as it was based upon the newly discovered evidence was properly de nied. This disposes of the cabe, the result being that the order denying anew trial is affirmed. BEBBY J. TILDEN AT LONG BRANCH. How tho Itiyhtfiil J't'Cftitlritt i.v SprtidiHfj the Dog-DaysItvenid"tiii\ Oon.sij). [Long Branch (July 8) Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.J That the story of Governor Tilden having gone to Europe had no foundation was veti fied by me last night. Mr. "Tilden was dis covered walking close between the hotel and the ocean, his hands behind his back, and his promenade frequently interrupted by a stop, and a very brown study. He looks better than ever in the face, and wears a white hat with mourning crapo, gray trous ers and a black coat. After looking at me several times he came forward and shook hands. There is a decided improvement in his color, form and style: yet he appears solemn, and some might say unhappy. I talked with several persons who have con versed with Mr. Tilden since he came here. All agree that he is desirious, if not hojjeful, of a renomination next time, and has ceased to repose any hopes in the Potter investiga tion, except as an agitator. Mr. Horace AVhite, a fellow-guest at the hotel, expressed the following views on the situation: "Governor Tilden," he said. '*is for the first five minutes of conversation so vacant and limp of countenance that he ap pears to have lost his mind but you must listen to him an hour, and he will then be found a fund of information, well classified and digested. He has a great self-esteem, and is an idealist in many thingsa man, I think, of certain strong purposes. As a President he would have been obstinate with his party, but certainly a greater success than Hayes, who is a very cheap produc- tion.'* Mr. White seems to think that at present the two leading Democratic candidates are Thurman, of Ohio, and Tilden. He thinks that as Thurman becomes more prominent Hendricks will glide in the rear of Tilden and be content with second place. Indiana will go for the old ticket, Tilden and Hen dricks. Tilden's danger lies in New York repudiating him. If Thurman is nominated, Mr. White supposes Bayard will be put up for Vice President. He believes Grant will be beaten for the Republican nomination, and that Edmunds, of A'ermont. is as likely as not to be the candidate, locality having very little to do with it, as Blaine, who lives further east, nearly got the nomination two years ago. White thinks Hayes' nomina tions to office worse than Grant's. MI3TNESOTA XEWS. E-&2B Night prowlers are reported to be numer ous in Lake City. Harvest hands are said to be very scarce in Nicollet county. Merchants pay seven cents for butter and seven cents for eggs at New Ulm. A young woman, aged sixteen, living in Red Wing, died of sunstroke Saturday, July 6. A salmon fourteen inches long was caught in Lake Emily, Nicollet county, the other day. Breaking teams are returning from the western prairies, where they have been open ing farms. J. T. Williams, of Mankato, has resigned hi3 position as special agent of tho post office department. Henry Ward Beecher will deliver his lec ture. "Wastes and Burdens of Society,'' in Lake City, July 25th. A fire-cracker fire occured at Hastings on 'the glorious Fourth," destroying a dwelling house and its contents. Robert Northup was thrown from his wagon in Hastings, a wheel passed over his ankle, producing a severe fracture. A twelve year old boy in West Newton hod an eye destroyed on the Fourth, by a fire cracker which another boy threw in his face just as it exploded. A man living in Potsdam, Wabashaw county, was leading a horse from the field, when the horse reared and struck him, caus ing his death in a few minutes. A runaway team at Hastings the other day ran into a buggy which two little girls were sitting, throwing them out and injuring one of them very seriously. Rev. J. B. Donaldson of Ashland, Oregon, has accepted a call from the Presbyterian church in Hastings, and will commence his labors there about the middle of September. Henry Ward Beecher and wife will be the guests of Dr. and Mrs. G. R. Patton, of Lake City, on the 25th of July, on the occa sion of Mr. Beecher's visit to that city to lecture. The First National bank of St. Peter has just declared a semi-annual dividend of six per cent. This bank, during all the hard times, has never failed to pay twelve per cent, per annum to tho stockholders. A boy baby six weeks old was left on the doorstep at the residence of William Moore in Castle Rock some days ago. A note with it stated it had no name, and appealed to Mrs. Moore to adopt it. The appeal was not in vain. The delinquent tax list is published this \eai the Dodge county iU'pxbhcnu, the -job'' having been awarded to Bro. Shaver by the auditor. It is a sboit li,t showing that the people ha\e a hole-some fear of the i 0 per cent, penalty. John Randall, in Haven. Sherburne coun ty, when at the bottom ot well which he which the parties intended it to be, it needs no was digging, had a bucket ot sand fall upon reformation, and none can be granted. The his head, inflicting a fearful scalp wound. lie was drawn up in. a siate of insensibility It is thought he will recover. Theic were numeions diunks in Hastings on the Fourth, and eight of them were brought into the police couit and fined for diunkenness and disoiderly conduct. Many a larger city gathered in a smaller crop of drunks on ''the day we celebrate." A son of AV. AV. Howe, of Winnebago City. Faribault county, on the Fourth, had his face badly burned and came near losing bis eyes by the explosion of a fire-cracker. An other argument in favor of the value and xn resultt tnatt Description importance of the general use of the cracker. the deed, which is a description of the ,T selected, is the exact description Newspapers are uttering warnings against the use of wire in binding grain. Some millers refuse to grind grain the straw of which has been bound with wiie. Pieces of the wire invariably get into the grain and cause damage to the expensive silk bolting cloth of the mills. MINNESOTA CROPS. Exceedingly Hastings C'/uoii. July 10 bad weather for rusting grain. New Ulm llecitio. July 10: Before another issue of the Iter km the rye and barley har vest will have fairly commenced. Lake City Sadincl, July 10: Wheat is ripening. The wind and rain Sunday lodged considerable grain in this locality. ^Litchfield hi'hpendent, July i): Die weather now is very favorable to I he heavy wheat crops. AVe hear little complaint ot lodging and none of rust in this county. Haying will begin this week in some places, though as a rule the glass ciop is put back by the wet, cold spring. AVabashaw Herald. July 10: It is reported from Glasgow that the barley hanest has commenced, and if the dry hot weather con tinues, wheat in the valley will soon follow. Chinch bugs aro threatening some damage, but a good shower and cooler weather would pievent their committing any serious depre dations. Sauk Rapids tiuttinrt, July 9 The rye harvest has been commenced in this county. Farmers in this county have commenced making hay. A rain shower on Sunday temporarily cooled the atmosphere, and proved beneficial to the crops. Accounts ol big crops in Benton county keep coming in. Mr. J. K. Stewart reports barley growing on the farm of Mr. D. Walker, in Gilmanton, four feet high oats, five feet nine inches high, and timothy heads, nine inches long. St. Peter Tribune, July 10th: The crop reports which come from every direction are very discouraging just now. The recent storms have blown down much of the grain, and the rains, heavy dews and hot suns have caused rust to appear. In the vicinity of Cleveland the grain appears to have been lodged worst, and we are informed that some of it can only be cut with a pickle. Altogether the crop of small grain is consid erably injured, and unless the weather takes a favorable turn at once the damage will be very great, especially to wheat. Our farm ers who have not harvested a full crop in five years have reason to feel a little discoui aged at the present out-look. At the best the grain is so badly damaged that an im mense amount of labor will be required to save it at all. Glencoe Enterprise, July 0: A report from Hutchinson, McLeod county, says: The weather for the past week has been fa vorable tor the growing crops. Corn has made wonderful growth in the last ten days Thursday, Friday and Saturday were hot. hotter, hottest in their order, the thermom eter on Saturday rising to 98. Some farm ers claim that grain is rusted a little, but not enough to do any injury to it at present. Those farmers who were feeling blue last week because considerable of their grain was laid down by the previous rains, have recovered their spirits again the greater part of the down grain has raised up again, and they find that not only is the standing grain filling well, but that which is down also. AVe had a very fine rain yesterday, but the weather being cool we do not look for it to cause the gram to rust, and it was not heavy enough to injure the grain crops. Delano (Wright county) EnyU, July 10th: Farmers are cutting hay. Harvest will soon commence.' Farmers complain of too fre quent rains for the good of wheat fields. In Buffalo is the county the farmers are clamor ing for harvest help, for the heavy growth of straw and the fact that part of the grain is already lodged, with more to follow before it ripens, will necessitate additional labor in the harvest fields, and yet many of our young men talk of going to the big prairie to work during harvest. From Howard Lake the re poit is that grain is looking well through the county. The storm of Sunday prostrated some few pieces in this vicinity, but the damage is not great. AVe noticed two pieces east of town that were badly rusted. Barley was badly demoralized by the storm, but as it is nearlj ripe it will uot be damaged much: but the labor of cutting will be much greater. Thermometor on Saturday, 96 degrees in the shade. A little warm, but glorious for corn. Faribault Republican, July 10: Corn is making a splendid growth, under the in fluence of the moist and hot weather. It is now a critical period for wheat, and the amount of the crop will largely depend upon the weather for the coming fortnight. The hot, damp weather that has prevailed for the past week has been unfavorable, and from some sections we hear that considerable red rust is visible upon the blades, though it has not yet attacked the stalk. Mr. Richard Murphy has shown us some specimens that show that danger is to be apprehended. The recent heavy rains, which have caused the heavy grain to lodge, will produce bad re sults, unless followed by cooler weather an I clearing winds. Senator Finseth. from Ken yon, thinks that the western portion of Goodhue county will produce but about two thirds of last year's crop, in consequence of rust. Christian Deike, of Wheeling, says that the wheat is lodged very badly in that section, and there is a great deal of rust. The crop looks better on the light than the heavy lands. CHARLEY ROS I N ITALY. Tin' Jtlis'.itm Hot/ Seen nurt Iileiitijird the Street* of Milan. [Milan Correspondence Chicago Times. 1 About one year ago some excitement was created here among Americans by the ap pearance in tho streets of a strolling party of musical beggai i, having with them a boy supposed to be Charley Ros.s, the stolen boy of America. This opinion wa-. based upon his actioiH. and the picture and description of the b: seen in America. AVhen attention was first attracted to him there were several children listening to the music who con tinued ppeaking to each other in the English language, hearing which he left the perform ers and joined them, and seemed to recog nize the language. This was noticed by one of the keeprs. who. in apparent alarm, i hurried to him and rudely jerked him out of this company, and the party left. This excited the suspicion of a lady from Cincin nati, who saw the affair: the circumstances and the resemblance were talked over among Americans. In a few dajs afterward the party was seen in another part of the city, and a lady at a distance of a rod or more spoke in English, saying, '-Charley, come to me." He seemed to understand and started toward her, but was again seized rudely, and with angry words hurried out of sight. All further efforts were defeated by their sud denly leaving the city. Some ten days ago the same party again appeared in the city. The party is composed of a possibly de formed man who sits in a hand-cart, and is drawn about by a villainous-looking man, each about thiity-five to forty years old. of very dark, swarthy skin, hair and eyes black. The boy plays an accordeon, and man-horse collects tne coppers. The boy is judged to be eight or nine oars old: eyes large and bright blue: features open, lefined, and deli cate fair, clear skin regular, fair teeth hair light, appioaching red: famt freckles about the nose: of delicate or light build seems bright and cheerful. His appearance and manners will convince the beholder that he is not an Italian, and in no way akin to his keepers. The interest in this case was intensified by the knowledge of the practice in this country of stealing children to a'd in the practice of beggary and all manner of catch penny exhibitions. A bright, handsome child is a small fortune, in the hands of strolling vagabonds. A few months ago the three year old son of one of the prominent citizens of Milan was stolen from the nurse who had him in charge, in the public garden. The police fofce was set to work, and in twenty-four hours thereafter, by the aid of a citizen who happened to see a crying boy carried along aback street, he was found in a garret occupied by a strollinc organ grinder. So prevalent has been the habit of child stealing, that no one under ten years of age is allowed to go into the streot or to and from school without an attendant. Children are not allowed to leave tho school room for a moment without a protector. Dwellings are so constructed that no one can leave or enter a house without the knowledge and consent of the door-keeper, who is always at the post of duty. Hence. it is an easy matter to prevent a child from es caping the vigilance of parents or servants. From the time they walk till the age of ma turity they are as priaoneis under guard. A lady never walks the streets alone, day or night, except at the ripk of impertinence or insult. Yet these disturbances and uimo\ ances are said to have greatly diminished within the last ten or fifteen years, and may not now justify the rigid precautions Ptill kept up. by force of habit, perhaps. A few yeai.-s ago. when Italy was tho native home of a vast horde of 13 rants, brigands, thieves, and beggars, force and cunning had to be met by barrtd windows, iron doors. wiilLs. guards, and sleepless vigilance. The presence of tho stolen boy. Charley Ross, in thiq country, in the hands of hteal ing vagabonds, would not be inconsistent with the past history of this people and their besetting ciimes. E. B. AX UNSELFISH HISP.ANO. An Exhibition of "the Sttur' of the Ilntst" us Oircn hi/ a JUtiiiicljwl Court J'atron. 1 Milwaukee Wisconsin.] On Saturday evening Mrs. John Gardner left her residence on AVells street 111 search of her husband, who was suspected of being 0:1 a drunk. She found him in a neighbor ing saloon, in the condition that her mind had pictured. An urgent solicitation to come home caused a scene so boisterous that both were arrested by the police on a charge disorderly. Early yesterday morning of the good tained the until she necessary to woman escort could bail her s^sp-r^^ffp^ GI.OBKI.ETS. 01 hCX. -ohcited and ob of Officer Soulen ''-LG the amount husband. This was accomplished by borrowing a few dollars from neighbors and collecting arrearages due her for labor pelformed. When she had made the deposit, and the unworthy liege lord was brought out of the cell he had oc cupied all night, she said to him: -Now, John, you can easily raise what money is necessary to bail me: so I will go back to my cell and await your speedy return. Now don't be gone long, please." John waited until the door closed behind his wife, and then left to continue his spree. This morn ing when the twain were brought i into court. Mrs. Gardner, upon her hus band's advice, united a plea of guilty to one entered by him, aud Judge Mallory 1m- i posed a fine of S10 and costs each or twenty days the house of correction. John used a portion of the bail money that had been deposited for him to pay his fine, pocketed the balance, and when asked to make up the amount necessary to keep his wife out ot the house of correction, replied with the utmost heartlessness, "Oh, she can go there," and walked off. Mrs. Gardner was accordingly toted to the house of correction in the Black Maria, along with half a dozen hard-looking male wretches. Meanwhile, the good-for nothing husband is reported by the police to be finishing his spree on the balance left in his hands. He is said to be a peddler of medicated soap. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Stanley Matthews buDgling attempt to explain his letters to the rascal Anderson, remind: one of the difficulty experienced by a M.seL-ippi steitnboat that was snagged. A local paper described it thus: She hove an' sot, an' sot an* hove. An' high her rudder flung An' eveiy time she hove an' sot A wuaser leak fche sprung. North- Henry Ward Beecher will lecture field, July 30th. Were the lies told by Eliza Pinkston white lies or of an ebony hue. An eclipse of the sun, total in the Western States, will occur July 29th. The German Emperor William's annual sal ary is over three million dollars. The President will I'.ttend the soldier's le union in Newark, Ohio, July 21st. Mr. Winters has sold the race mare Mollie McCarthy to Budd Doble. Price unknown. A new volume of poems bj John G. Whittier is announced as forthcoming in the fall. Seven hundred passengers sailed from ie York last Satuiday on the steamers for Europe. Attorney-General Devens will be acting sec retary of the navy during the absence of Secre tary Thompson. Gen. HowarcLavin met the Indians, killing time has commenced. Give the 'Ted devils" little more grape. The rider of the pale horse is discusfte^ 011 Sundays, anil the other Man-on-Horse!ac the rest of the week. Sixteen hundred sa'.ages waited for GPII. Howard. He met them, but thty were not his they ran aw a It is believed the Gieenbackers will combine with the Democrats in Maine and rany two 01 three congiest-ional districts. It is reported that old Zach Chandler is t. take the witness chair before the Potter com mittee, \acated by Mr*. Jenks. Joaquin Miller will publish London, next September, a new volume of poems to be en titled ''Songs of Far-away Lands." Civ il service leform is dead. Wh\ dors not our glorious Piesident, gracefulh "put it in i little [nasty] bed." and holenmly read tho Iri'-- ial service. A waterspout hung down front the clot--}* near Denvei. Col., but when within fifteen feet of the ground it wa-, Fucked up without dtop ping it-, delude. Mr. Att\.iUi, the American consul .it Tahiti has married the native Piincesr. Mu.Ua th royal family, and intend* to stay and Veconie native himself. The L'r.iokljn Union-Aryu\ has discovered tn difference between the weathei and the babv. "One never lanw but it pouri the other never pains but it ioarh." The Paris exposition is proving no tmeceshlul that it ia now setiously proposed to piolong it until the Inst of IVeembei, and possibly to the middle ot that mouth. Four hi'ndied and fifty dollars are still due the veranous Pinkston for flaunting the bloodj shirt in the faces of the visiting statesmen ri New Orleans, as she claims. In Bohvin theie aie 2,(100 privates 111 1 br anny and 1,116 officere. Bohvi.i takes the belt for efficient military servic?, lllustmting tho bus} activity of a hen lth one chicken. If the Potter invehtigating convention has accomplished nothing else valuable, it brought to light manj an evpert at drawing tho long bow. without reg.ud to previous conditi The kcepiis. ot iaiavanisain.s at the hca^i-'u complain of dull limes. If the present heated term doe.s not bung them relief, they may bo expected to give up the ghost, hgurativ l\ speaking. Swedes have puichased alaigetiact .,f lund on the Blue mountain. l\nnsylvaiua, extend ing from Delaware Watei Gap down to Wind Gap. on which they propose to gia/e go.it, a,,,! iiiiikr cheoie. Seth Gieen has h-Uidiod out this beaon at KogLr'h island, on the upjxr Jlud-ou. 3,500,((! s'lad and let them loose 111 the Hudson. 1 Will not test content until he has houncths, contiguity oi hind. If Mrs. Jenks 1, not a statesman she ib -i s'lvioi of States, ol one State, at least, for I destroying the John Slieim.m letlei shewivtil Louisiana to Haves. MHI dumped th.it ofhei.il the executive ihair. The following is supposed to be good d\ii Lur totin-ts: "Don't leave voiii cool IIOUM good table and checi 1'ul family citcle and off homevvheie and pay for the privilege of mg miserable foi six weeks" A young ladv in Wiiliainsmirgh has ben sued foi breach of promise. The discarded lover saj.s he "noticed a coidne-s hoi in Jan- uary." Slie thiLatens to make it hot eiough for him before fhe g" through. in Quebec a staid old bachelor ol hftv-hu has sued i wealth} dashing young widow foi bleach of in.irri.ige. promise. She jilted tin old bach, and married a dandy dry good* meichant. The gossips are liv el} The Potter commutes talk ot an adjourn ment till Septembei. What a sen-,eof rehet the veiy suggestion affords. We take a long bieafh, and breathe frce.r and easif r. Let us have cooler we :tlier for auoh hot v.oik. Whether Mis. Jenks examined the Pott 1 romrriittf"', or whether they examined hei whethei Mrs. J. discharged the committee, whethei th'-y discharged her. are the vexod and perplexing questions of ln 1 summer. A San A'ltomo letter to the Galveston rrWr,= 1 Xniv, dated June 28. says About 100 le criuts have airived from New York. They i,|i] be distributed for 1.400 miles along tlie boundary line to the Jtio Grande.*' Too thi Eleven one-legged men and eleven one-armed men, phi} ed a oiicket match on Long island on the Fourth. There were also various othei ii teresting contestswheelbairovv races, crtifi 1 races, and so lorthamong these athletic rip ples-. Westminster, Mass.. had an old folks' picnic, at which seventy-four persons ovei beventj years of age were present. Jonas Miller pei fornied on tho big fiddle that he used to play in church sixtv }ears ago, and Miss Bacon, aged eighty-four, contributed an original poem. The New York communists, at i-. meeting on Mondav, resolved that all thiiigo should be "whacked up" Lvcnh. batCommunist Schwab, whose beer was drunk on that occasion, didn't give it away except fo.- live cents a glass. This is not quite oiu idea of "whacking up." s-ays the Jersey Cit' Jo'irifl. Jf In Austin. Te\a, an Irishwoman recently celebrated a holida} by beginning a jig, which lasted for lour successive days without any in termission. The food she ate was given to her while bhe was dancing. Her husband made a large amount of money by taking up collections from the admiring and patriotic visitors, I "Butler and Gregg" is a. poFbible ticket of th Nationals in 18:0. Butler is well known. 1 Mi Jenks introduced him to the country. Mi. Gregg wa.-, the candidate of the Greenback party for Lieutenant-Governor of Indiana in '76. His friends may, however, bridle and blanket him, and lead him out aD the daik horse in the next gubematoiial race. The people of New Yoik aie makiug a great racket about the bewildering noise pioduced by the elevated railroad. It greatly disturbs and interferes with tho transaction ot business along its lines. Congress, or at least the closing hours of a session, could be transferred to the elevated road, would it not. on the prin ciple of homeopathic treatmentlike curing likehelp it some? There is an immense crop of statesmen and statesmanship being developed in the thickly occurring nominating conventions of the pres ent year. Yet the crop is not free from rust, or a rank growth 01 r.tia-. or lodged and tan gled stocks still there are not wanting some I bright, well-developed, well-filled heads, but not a few of the heads are seriously aflectetl with the weevilor the devil.