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ST. PAUL. FRIDAY. JULY 26. 1878.
HKNKY CLAY DEAN and Brick Pomeroy are now
the leading spirits of the Democracy of the
West.St. Louts Globe-Democrat.
You lie, you villain, you lie!
IT is better to be a murderer in Illinois
than a poor friendless tramp New Hamp
shire. While Illinois punishes murder by a
year's imprisonment in the penitentiary, the
tramp in New Hampshire gets fifteen years
at hard labor.
THE canvass for the Judgeship in the
Fifth Judicial district seems likely to be
made without any formal nomination.
Lewis Brownell, of Waseca, announces him
self as an independent candidate, and he
will make a good run.
A MINNEAPOLIS correspondent aims a
plumper at Bill Washburn. He proposes to
enlighten the sanctimonious purchaser of
conventions on the subject of stealing gov
ernment pine. His mild hint is only an in
timation of the coming storm.
THE Democratic State Central Committee
and the Third District Democratic Commit
tee have been called to meet at the Merchants
Hotel in this city, on Tuesday, August 6th.
It is probable that the Congressional conven
tion in this Distriot will be called for the 4th
or 5th of September.
THE "visiting statesmen," examined by
the Potter committee on Wednesday, were
sublimely ignorant of any questionable pro
ceedings in the counting of the vote of
Louisiana. All of which goes to prove the
truth of the old adage that "There's none BO
blind as they who will not see."
IT is stated that "as yet" there is no
record of Capt. Jenks having been appointed
to a federal office on the Pacific coast. Hayes
"as yet" has not summoned up courage
enough to reward a confessed perjurer s
openly, but there is no doubt whatever but
he will do so eventually.
JUDGE CAMPBELL acted in a thoroughly
business-like manner in Louisiana. When
he learned that the State had gone Demo
cratic, he remarked: "Well, we must throw
out Democratic votes enough to change the
result," and he proceeded to do it as if it
was the moat ordinary and proper thing in
the world to do.
HEBE is Mrs. Jenks' opportunity. A
speaker at the New York National conven
tion at Syracuss urged that in all cases a
woman should be nominated with a man
and the salary divided. He would have some
good woman nominated for Vice-President
with Ben Butler for President. Hurrah for
Butler and Jenks!
A PBOPHET is not without honor save in
his own country. Grant's name has gone
a-begging in Illinois, but the Republicans of
the Third Massachusetts district have taken
it up and nominated the man on horseback
for Congress. He may be elected, but that
is all the good it will do him. He is not
qualified to act from that State.
THE Eastern papers are busily engaged in
interviewing prominent Californians with a
view to ascertaining the cause of the rapid
growth of Eearneyism and its probable
duration. The conclusions arrived at are,
without exception, those disseminated by the
GLOBE a month ago that the abuse of Chi
nese labor is the cause, and that when that
problem is solved satisfactorily, the "wave"
will recede and affairs return to their normal
condition.
IF it shall prove to be true that MacKenzie
has crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico
with a large force to give battle to the Mexi
cans, the authorities at Washington will not
be surprised, says a dispatch. This seems to
indicate that Gen. Ord has received orders to
do what he can to precipitate hostilities
with Mexico. That the greasers deserve a
whipping no one will doubt, but it ought to
be administered to them openly and with the
avowed consent of the Washington govern
ment, not under cover of an attempt to pun
ish small bands of desperadoes.
WHEN the audience is listening to the well
rounded periods of the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher this evening, they should remember
that he is the same man -who wrote the "let
ter of contrition" when he humbled himself
before Theodore Tilton as he did before his
God. It should also be remembered that en
the celebrated trial he acknowledged the
genuineness of the letter, (every word of it)
which stamps him as a guilty man. But he
explained that he signed his name as near
the edqe of the paper as possible. That was
a noble act, to sign near the edge. It was
probably the "ragged edge."
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Btrr little comfort can be extracted by the
creditors of the bankrupt estate of Jay
Cooke from the statement of the trustees
published in yesterday's GLOBE. Although
the assets, at the time of the failure, were
reported to be nearly eight millions of
dollars, but one 5 per cent, dividend has yet
been paid. The balance of the property has
been eaten up by taxes and costs, except a
small fragment, which it is proposed to
capitalize and divide to creditors in the form
of scrip. This scrip will be bought at a
ruinous discount, of course, by those in the
ring, so that ultimately the creditors will get
little or nothing. Meantime Jay Cooke is
enjoying his leisure in luxurious ease at
Newport, and does not appear to be troubled
for money.
"OUTRAGES BY SUCH FELLOWS AS
SCHURZ."
It is well to have things thoroughly under
derstood at the outjet. The pine land ring
has nominated Washburn, and the Minne
apolis Lumberman thus explains Wash
burn's platform:
The nomination of W. D. Washburn for Con
gress is a matter over which every lumberman
can afford to rejoice. Their immediate and di
rect interests involved in the proposed legisla
tion for the next two years, make it a matter
of first-class importance to them to secure an
able and zealous advocate in the national balls.
The Canadians will continue to presB their
schemes for wiping oat the lumber business in
the Northwest through the fraud called recip
rocity. The rivers and harbors are to be pre
served and improved. The great project of the
building of reservoirs on the several streams
must be pushed onto their completion. The lum
ber tariff on imported woods are to be watched
and defended. If the departments at Washing
ton are to be occupied by meh fellows as Schurz
there is needed in Congress a man who will de
nounce his outrages. The important matter
of inter-state commerce is to be carefully and
thoroughly adjusted, and a thousand wrongs
made right which do now most greviously op
press the lumbermen in the distribution of
their product. In these particulars and a hun
dred other ways, have the lumbermen a direct
interest, and for the discharge of all and sin
gular of these duties, there is no man in this
district more fully qualified than Gen. W. D.
Washburn, who is thorougly identified with the
business and perfectly acquainted with all its
necessities. His nomination is largely due to
the influence of the lumbermen of the district,
who rallied to his support with hardly a dis
senting voice.
Mr. Washburn's own dealings in pine
make him in full sympathy with the pine
land gang and they can rely on him to de
nounce the outrages "of such fellows as
Schurz." The authoritative announcement
of the iAimberman that the pine land
thieves have nominated and propose to elect
Mr Washburn is excellent. Of course the
"fellow Schurz" must walk the plank be
cause he wishes to stop the stealing of pine.
That is an unpardonable sin in the eyes of
the Washburn gang.
NATIONAL NONSENSE.
It is unfortunate for the New York Na
tionals that they begin their avowal of po
litical principles with an absolute untruth,
patent upon its face. Their preamble states
that
WHEREAS, The so-called Democratic and Re
publican parties have legislated in the interest
of the money power of this country and Eu
rope, and which are the sources of all the
wealth theieof, we assert our complete inde
pendence of said parties, and declare our inde
pendence and adhesion to the National Green
back Labor party.
However true it may be that the Republi
can party has "legislated in the interest of
the money power of this country and Eu-
rope," it is manifestly untrue that the Demo
cratic party has so legislated, simply for the
reason that it has not had the opportunity
of legislating either for or against the money
interests. Ever since the issue of govern
ment and national bank notes the Demo
cratic party has been in a minority in Con
gress, and could not, therefore, have been
guilty of the charge. The policy of the
Democratic partythe measures it has at
tempted, though unsuccessfully, to carry
throughhas been the repeal of the national
bank law and of the resumption act, and the
making of greenbacks an absolute legal ten
der, and these are the main demands of the
Nationals themselves.
While in the main the GLOBE does not dis
agree with the principles laid down in the
National platform, it is not blind to some
glaring inconsistencies that appear. While
demanding and insisting en the re
duction of expenses, they ask for the
appointment of various commissions that
will inevitably be extremely expensive, while
their utility is matter of grave doubt. They
ask the appointment of commissions con
sisting of men whose business does not
identify them with railroads, men of known
character and ability to investigate and as
certain the actual cost of rail transportation,
and to the end that proper legislation may
be had for the control of railroads by the
State. They also demand the establishment
of a labor bureau for the purpose of obtain
ing reliable statistics to form a basis for in
telligent legislation on labor questions, es
pecially with regard to the hours of labor,
which should be reduced in proportion as
the use of machinery inoreases, and in con
formity with other causea which throw
workers out of employment.
Both of these commissions would involve
the expenditure of millions of money annu
ally. Men capable of carrying out the pur
poses contemplated could not be induced to
give their services for a song, and the labor
is of a character that requires wide research
and great outlays of time and money. The
results sought to be obtained, while desirable
in themselves, can never be reached through
such means. The railroad legislation of
several of the Western States within the
past eight years has demonstrated the futility
of attempting to regulate the cost of trans
portation by such agencies. Time and the
demands of trade can alone bring about such
reforms. So with the labor question. The
law of supply and demand will govern the
labor market in spite of whatever legislation
may be enacted. It is absolute folly to
suppose that legislation can remedy evils of
this nature. By promoting industry alone
can the interests of the laboring man be
promoted. If there is no demand for the
labor of mechanics, wages will inevitably be
low if the demand is great, skilled workmen
can command their own price. Instead of
promoting the cause of the workingmen,
legislation of the character de
manded will only hamper the em
ployer and destroy the demand
for labor. It is the true policy of the friends
of the workingmen to encourage manufac
tures, trade and commerce, not to hinder
them by obstructive laws. The pursuit of
chimerical ideas such as are enunciated by
the Nationals of New York will only bring
their party into disrepute among sensible
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and sincere friends of labor, and give color
to the charge of demagogueism against the
leaders. For, if we follow the ideaof legisla
tive control of the prices of transportation
and labor to its legitimate result, we may
expect to see laws upon our statute books
regulating the price to be paid for a pound
of cheese, a bushel of corn, potatoes or
wheat, or a dozen of eggs. If the power of
regulation as to one resides in the legisla
ture, it is equally competent for the govern
ing power to regulate all, even to the most
trifling product of industry.
WASHBURN 3IUST BE DEFEATED.
Since the suggestion made by the GLOBE
a few days ago relative to Mr. Donnelly's
candidacy against Washburn, the subject has
been very generally discussed and a variety
of opinions expressed. It is due Mr. Don
nelly to say that he never sought any such
position. So far as the GLOBE is informed,
we do not know that he would consent to
run either as an independent candi
date or with a clear field as the
only competitor against Washburn. It was
availibility and the eternal fitness of things
which suggested Donnelly, and nothing
more. He is attending to the harvesting of
his wheat crop on the frontier, and so far as
we know has given no signcertainly not
having expressed a desire or even willingness
to run.
Our esteemed cotemporary, the St. Cloud
Times, thinks that the GLOBE has undertaken a
large contract to bolster up Mr. Donnelly, and
that better Democrats can be found to carry
the standard in the coming conflict. The
GLOBE wishes to emphatically disclaim any
effort to urge Mr. Donnelly. We know
there are much better and more consistent
Democrats. Since 1872 he has acted in op
position to the Republican partysome
times with the Democracy and some
time in a party by himself. Two or three
years ago he was the legislative caucus nom
inee of the Democratic party for the United
States Senate. He has for several years
been sent to the State Senate by the Demo
cratic county of Dakota, and his variance
with the party has been on financial questions,
he standing with the Democracy of Ohio
while Minnesota has, heretofore, followed
the leadership of New York. This year the
Democrats of Minnesota stand ready to en
dorse Ohio and are doing so.
We concede that there are far more con
sistent and older Democrats than Mr. Don
nelly, and the GLOBE stands ready to endorse
any of them who may be chosen as the
standard bearer. The GLOBE proposes that
Mr. Washburn shall be defeated. It desires
to see a fighting campaign, and so far as it
can, will have one. If any good Democrat of
the so called old school, will come forward
and smite the enemy hip and thigh
he will have all the co-operation which the
GLOBE can give. Our platform, plump and
square is "anything to beat Washburn." If
it can best be done with a straight Demo
crat, then do it. If it can best be done with
a straight Republican, then do it. If it can
best be done with Mr. onnelly, then do it
with him.
If Mr. Donnelly should go into the cam
paign he will fight. We want a fight. The
District is Republican. No opponent of
Mr. Washburn's can be elected who does not
'combine all elements of opposition. We
want Democrats, Greenbackers, disaffected
Republicans, Independents, no party menf
and every one who desires to see the
most corrupt political ring ever organ
ized in Minnesota smashed to
smithereens. Give us the man who can com
bine all these and he is the choice of the
GLOBE. There is no nse of the Democracy
standing on fine points. Many Democrats
don't like Donnelly. We don't like
Donnelly in very many respects,
but we believe if he can have the cordial
support of the Democracy, he can obtain the
support of the other elements sufficient to
elect him. If the Democracy will not give this
support then that ends the matter, so far as
he is concerned. We regard the defeat of
Washburn by any one as a victorya vic
tory worth fighting for. We don't want to
see the Washburn family ring inflicted on
this young State for all time. W want to
see the Washburn egg crushed in
its incubation, and the GLOBE
will join hands with any man
or any movement, to accomplish this pur
pose. "Standing by the old party flag," in
the usual rock rooted, mule buttressed style
is just the game Bill Washburn desires to
have the Democracy play. We know he
fears the kind of programme which the
GLOBE proposes and hence we believe
we are on the right track.
The hypocritical mask of virtue
which he assumes can be stripped off,and the
man who purchased his nomination can be
sent howling to the grave of defeat The
GLOBE puts forward no man as a necessity,
but it insists on the platform: "DEFEAT WASH-
BUBN."
THE FIRST DISTRICT.
The Democrats of the First Congressional
District held their Convention at Owatonna
yesterday. The nomination of a candidate
was deferred until later in the campaign. It
is, of course, understood that the Republican
nominee will be elected in that District, but
the Democrats, nevertheless, propose to
maintain their organization, and make their
THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 26,1878.
DONNELLYVS.WASHBURN What the Papers are Saying of the Com-
3^i Ing Contest In the Third District.
S5i.
Good Scoring for Wash, rf-**-
[Delano EagleDem.]
It is rumored that Donnelly will take the
field against Washburn in this district. If
he does he will give Wash, a good scoring.
Washburn's flight.
[Plainview NewsRep.]
If Donnelly gets after the general, three
men could probably hold Washburn's coat,
but they would have to sit down on the tail
of it.
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[St. Peter TribuneRep. I
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The St. Pauld GLOBE nominates Mr. Don
nelly as the Democratic candidate for Con
gress in the Third district, to run against
Washburn. As Donnelly hates above all
things to see Washburn go to Congress, we
shouldn't wonder if he would try in this way
to beat him, but he won't do it.
Lively Campaign.
[Sauk Rapids SentinelRep.]
It is mooted that Donnelly is likely to en
ter the list against Washburn in order to
avenge his defect of ten years ago, in which
event a lively campaign is promised. Don
nelly would no doubt make the campaign in
teresting, but we are of the opinion that as
far as the election goes, his candidacy would
be barren of results.
Wants Him in Both Districts.
[Farmmgton PressRep.]
The St. Paul GLOBE is trying to stuff
Donnelly up with the notion of running for
(Congress against Washburn in the Third
district. That would make things lively for
the boys but what in thunder shall we do
down here for fun if Donnelly can't run in
in this distriot on the Greenback ticket. Or
can Donnelly run in both districts? We
hope so.
He Would Defeat Washburn.'
[Wright County TimesRep.]
It is rumored that Donnelly will run for
Congress in this district on the Greenback
ticket^ hoping thereby to defeat Washburn.
Donnelly lives in the Second district, but it
seems there is nothing in the law requiring
a Congressman to reside in the district he
represents. Of course he couldn't be elect
ed, but if he could succeed in heading off
Washburn, against whom he holdsan ancient
grudge, his object would be accomplished.
Hope He Will Bun.
[Shakopee ArgusDem.]
The GLOBE urges Ignatius Donnelly to be
come a candidate against W. D. Washburn.
Many of our readers will remember the un
holy war carried on against Mr. Donnelly by
Washburn, ten years ago. Mr. Donnelly's
defeat was owing to the revengeful action of
Washburn, consequently we hope Donnelly
will run against the convention buyer as an
independent candidate, and thus secure the
defeat of the lumberman's pal. Revenge is
sweet.
Bring Out Your Stronger Man.
St. Cloud TimesDem.]
If the St. Paul GLOBE has undertaken to
create a sentiment in favor of Mr. Donnelly's
nomination by the Democracy of this dis
tiict, it has a big contract on its hands. Per
sonally we esteem Mr. D. very highly, but
his nomination by the Democracy is, in our
judgment, out of the question. We are of
the opinion that we have Democrats who
would make stronger candidates than Mr.
Donnelly, and, hence see no reason to go
over into the Second district for a leader.
Favorable to Donnelly.
[La Ciosse Democrat. I
There seems to be a reasonable prob
ability that W. D. Waahburn will be called
upon to enter the field with Hon. Ignatius
Donnelly as an opponent in the second
Congressional district of Minnesota. The
St. Paul GLOBE publishes a number of in
terviews with well-known politicians who
have expressed opinions of Donnelly as a
candidate, and the general tenor thereof
seems to be favorable. Donnelly is unques
tionably one of the strongest men in the
west, in his peculiar vein, and would lead
the pompous and prosy Washburn through
quicksands and briers in his doubtful race
for the Congressional goal.
MINNESOTA NEWS.
George Bickelhaupt has resigned the sher
iffalty of Brown county.
An effort is on foot to remove the county
seat from Le Sueur Center to Montgomery.
The police of Red Wing gathered ten
tramps into the fold Sunday night, July
21st.
Mr. Thiets fell from the roof of a build
ing in St. Peter, last week, and was consid
erably injured.
Look out for tramps. Keep your shoot
ing irons loaded, is tne admonition of the
Red Wing Advance.
Two tramps who attempted to burn a har
vester near Faribault, the other day, were
shot dead by a farmer.
Numerous instances of horses and cattle
being killed by lightning during the thunder
storms of this season (.re reported.
John Strom, 15 years of age, son of B.
Strom, of Cornish, was drowned in the Min
nesota river near Judson, but a few days
ago.
"Sportsmen," so-called, are not waiting
for the 15th of August, but are daily slaugh
tering the prairie chickens in great num
bers. 4
Several of the citizens of Hastings are
about forming.a stock company for the pur
pose of preparing a first class summer resort
at Prior lake.
It is expected that the Hastings & Dakota
canvass for local and legislative officers
brisk and lively. The platform' adopted railroad will be completed to Granite Falls
right ring about it.. It is
has the right ring about it
superior to that adopted by the Democrats
of the Second District, and is one upon
which every opponent of the Republican
dynasty can stand. There is no occasion
for division of forces upon such a platform.
It stands upon the side of the people upon
all the vital questions at issue and will, in the
main, be a good platform for the Third Dis
trict Democrats Greenbackers, and Inde
pendents to unite upon to defeat the corrupt
combination represented by W. Wash
burn.
THE MINNESOTA CROPS.
Farmington (Dakota county) Press, July
24: Our farmers commenced on Monday to
cut their wheat in earnest. The reports are
very conflicting. On some fields near here
the wheat is much shrunken and there will
not be half the crop of last year. In other
places and on high lands the wheat is more
plump and the promise better. It is certain
that there will be much damage from blight,
and one farmer tells us there will not be a
bushel of No. 1 wheat in this county. On
the whole it if safe to say that not much
over ten to twelve bushels to the acre will be
harvested in this vicinity. In or near the
timber lands the damage will be less. It is
upon old and worn-out soil that the blight
is most apparent.
Eureka, Dakota county: Harvest began
on the 22d. Wheat badly blighted, and old
farmers say will only yield 10 to 15 bushels
per acret
3ft#MlSi
by the middle of September or the first of
October at the farthest.
S. Hawkins, of Rice county, had his pock
et-book, containing 100, stolen the other
night from his home. The enterprising thief
crawled through an open window to reach
the spoil.
The police force of Hastings has been in
creased to six during the rush of tramps and
harvest hands. They gobble up tramps and
disorderly drunks with commendable
promptitude.
It is reported that in the vicinity of Fari
bault many horses are affected with a dis
temper resembling the epizootic. Some val
uable horses have been lostamong them
one $600 horse.
Last week a blast in a stone quarry at
Sauk Rapids removed a stone four feet
which measured 23 feet in length, 13 feet
wide, and 7 feet thick, equal to over 2,000
cubic feet, or about 180 tons,
Anew county road has been established,
running from the Lake Lac qui Parle, east
ward through the towns of Kragen, Big
Bend, Kalamia, and unorganized township
119, range 39, to the Kirkhoven road.
Frontiersmen, who have taken up, and
been breaking up land, have been in consid
erable numbers passing back homewards for
the last few days to harvest their crops.
Their teams give evidence of rough work.
Some straggling "noble red men of the
forest" found a dead horse in Detroit, Berker
county, the other day, and made a luscious
feast upon his flesh, to the great disgust of
the carrion crow that cawed over their heads.
The Morristown, Bice county, steam mill
has changed hands. Mr. Barkley has bought fe*. ~\j fiTJP "RIO! f!OTTT?
the mill for $46,000. He is to pay all in-j -^oUrJlIJjJILEi UUUltl.
debtedness of the company. After paying
the debts the stockholders will receive the
balance.
The firm of Earing & Cavanaugh, of Fari
bault, who were burnt out in the great fire,
have presented Fred Smith, their faithful
head clerk and bookkeeper, with a gold watch,
to replace one which was lost by the firean
act alike creditable to employers and em
ploye.
The Faribault Republican remarks: Num
bers of tramps have been reported on the
road, but as yet no depredations have been
committed by them in this city. Our police
force are onthe lookout for them, and they
will receive a warm reception ir they resort
to lawless practices.
Monday, the 23d inst., a span of horses
in Faribault broke from their fastenings and
ran. Result: The wagon was broken up, a
leg of one of the horses was broken, and he
was killed on the spot, and the other horse
was severely wounded. By another runaway
on the same day, a buggy was torn to pieces,
but no other damage was done.
In Florence, Goodhue county, on Sunday,
the 21st inst., a man named Anthony Wal
drager, working for a Mr. Haynes, went to
the house and asked Mrs. Haynes for a razor
to shave himself with, which he obtained,
and going behind an out-house cut his throat,
and was shortly after found dead. The cor
oner, Dr. Parks, was called Monday, and
went down, but could find no reason for the
suicide.
Bird Island, a station in the center of Ren
ville county, after a long delay has finally
been located to the satisfaction of all parties
concerned. Major Rogers, with others from
Glencoe, is out there this week laying out a
townsite on section 14, town 115, range 34
and materials are already on the ground for
several buildings, as soon as a spot is desig
nated for them to build upon, Bird Island
will undoubtedly be the county seat of Ren
ville county, and bids fair to become a town
of considerable importance.
The Morristown correspondent of the
Faribault Republican writes: Considerable
excitement prevaded here last week. A Mr.
Stowell, living with some of his relations,
about five miles southwest of Morristown,
in Blooming Grove, it is supposed took it
into his head to poison someone with strych
nine. After putting some in the tea kettle,
and in the potatoes, he took some himself.
The action was prompt. The rest did not
partake. As soon as he felt the effects of
the poison, he ran out where they weie
milking and took the pail and drank all he
could. Dr. S. B. Coe was called. The man
is all right again. He was in town yester
day, and the sheriff from Waseca arrested
him. At the examination there was not suf
ficient proof and he was discharged.
STILLWATEE NEWS.
The Dispatch came in yesterday morning
from the foot of the lake.
The Lulu is at the lower levee awaiting
orders. It is not definitely known where
she will go next.
Madame Dupree is still at the Sawyer
House, although the P. P. did send her up
river yesterday morning.
The new bakery at the prison has a capaci
ty of over four hundred loaves at a batch, or
a little more than one day's rations for the
whole.
The A. Reiling, of Belleview, is still wait
ing for her raft, which is expected to be
ready this evening, then she will start foi
Burlington.
Alec Johnson came down from Snake
river yesterday, where he had been to set a
haying crew at work he predicts that the
hay crop will be light this year.
The phonograph is on exhibition in
Green's block and those who have seen it
say it is marvelous how an instrument that
looks so much like a sausage filler can talk
back at a man.
Almost everybody we meet wants to know
if the swimming train is going out to Elmo
Saturday evening. From the best informa
tion we can get we would say it was and
that it would be crowded.
George McKenzy, "the same old George,"
as he says, was playing the wild Comanche
with a horse and buggy yesterday, so Chief
Shortall took him in and he paid his $7.50
and then went awayto smile.
A good many of our citizens went out to
White Bear yesterday to witness the regatta
and had a very pleasant time. If the prizes
in the rowing races had been larger, Still
water would have been represented probably
with a crew that would have made it warm
for some of them.
Happening into Capron's tin shop yester
day we saw them engaged in making an im
mense tin vessel about four feet in diameter.
We enquired of Lou if it was for afoot bath
for Bill he said it would be too small for
that purpose, that it was intended for the
fountains to play in at the Knights' ball.
DOES E ME AN I 1
An Offer to Refresh Bill Washburn's 3Iem
ory on the Subject of Stealing Pine.
To the Editor of the Globe
That is what we want to know, and what
the voters of the Third district want to
know and we ask Gen. Washburn to state
emphatically if the interview witn him as re
ported in the Pioneer Press of the 25th
inst. expresses his sentiments.
If Secretary Schurz' course in the timber
suits "has his hearty approval all along," the
voters of this district would like to know it.
There is along history connected with the
cutting of timber on government land, and
that history is as old as the settlements in
the State and Territory of Minnesota,
and when Gen. Washburn states that he
never cut to his knowledge a single tree on
government land, we think his memory was
a little at fault, and if it wants refreshing a
little, let his mind run back to the days of
one James Simmons, who used to be quite a
celebrated lumberman in these parts. Now,
we had expected to vote for Gen. Washburn,
believing he would fairly represent the inter
ests of the people of the district, but if his
views are such as are represented in the
Pioneer Press, then we shall be forced to
change our vote or not vote at all.
r^
We do not advocate the indiscriminate
cutting of timber on government land. We
desire to see it stopped, and stopped in a
fair and practical way, but not in the way
that Schurz has practiced. But if Gen.
Washburn approves of Schurz' cause we pro
pose to go into the practical working of the
system, and we propose to go back over the
past and see who has cut timber on govern
ment land and how the thing has worked.
We ask Gen. Washburn to state distinctly
whether he stands up for the sentiments
published in the Pioneer Press of the 25th
inst., and if these are his views? JUSTICE.
Will Slake a Strong Run.
[Red Wing AdvanceRep.]
Poehler is a German by birth, verypopu
lar in the valley, and will make a strong run.
The majority of French officers having no
private means, an estimate has been given by a
French military paper of the monthly expend
itures of a subaltern officer: Clothing, 363
francs a year, or 30% francs a month lodging,
25 francs a month food, 87 francs share of
regimental festivities, 3 francs entertaining a
friend, 3 francs and fifteen other items
amounting to a total expenditure per month of
188 francs. U'^' j-*
FULL TEXT OF DECISIONS FILED.
Thomas F. Brady, Appellant, vs. William P.
Brennan and Edward P. Brennan, Respond
ents.
OPINION.
Action on a promissory note. Defendants
pleaded, as a counter claim, that "the said
plaintiff had and received of these defendants
four steers, each of the age of three years, and
there and then of the just and full value of
$120, which said sum the plaintiff was owing
to these defendants at and before the com
mencement of this action." This counter
claim is badly pleaded, for it does not show a
sale of the steers, nor how they were had and
received by plaintiff. No exception, however,
was taken to it, and the defendants introduce
evidence that plaintiff had, without their
consent, taken the Bteers from their possession
and sold them. There was no direct evidence
that plaintiff actually r ceived anything on
such sale, nor for how much he sold them.
After the evidence was in plaintiff moved to
strike it out as incompetent, irrelavant and
immaterial, and because it tends to prove a
claim for damages arising out of tort and not a
counter claim. If the facts had been properly
pleaded, proof of them would have been rela
vent and material, and the real ground of ob
jections is the absence of proper allegations in
the answer, and it was as apparent before as
after it was received where the objection is
thus apparent if the party makes no objection
to the evidence when offered it is discretionary
with the court to grant or refuse a motion to
strike out. State vs. Johnson 23, Minn. 569.
The question of variance may be raised after
the evidence is in, the party showing that he
has been misled by it, but the
question of variance was not raised.
It does not appear that the discretion was not
properly exercised.
The question upon which there is much di
versity of decision whether when one wrong
fully takes and appropriates the property of
another the owner may waive the tort and sue
in assumpsit upon an implied promise to pay
the value is not raised by the evidence, for the
cases which restrict this right of election to
the narrowest limits admit that if the wrong
doer has sold the property the owner may sue
as upon contract for the money received at the
sale. In this case there was evidence of a sale
and where 1 here has been a sale and there is no
proof to the contrary the jury may presume
that it was for cash and for the value of the
property.
Burnap vs. Patndge 3, Yt., 144.
If a suit as upoa contract could haye been
sustained on the transaction it is a proper mat
ter of counter claim in all action on contract.
Judgment affirmed. GILFILLAN, C. J.
Thomas Murphy, Respondent, vs. Geo. C. Sher
man and Patrick Woods, Appellants.
OPINION.
This action was in the nature of trespass de
bonis for unlawfully taking a horse of plaintiff
which the defendants justify under a writ of
attachment in favor of Woods against plaintiff,
executed by defendant Sherman, a constable.
The court below instructed the jury that no de
mand by plaintiff was necessary, and that they
should find a verdict for plaintiff for the value
of the horse with interest fiom the time of
taking. In these instructions the court
was right. Theie was no contio
versy as to the taking and the evidence to show
tne horse exempt, was clear and uncontradicted,
and it was the only horse plaintiff owned. The
original taking was therefore wrongful, and no
demand was necessary. But appellants claim
that the instruction to find a verdict for plain
tiff for the value of the horse was erroneous,
because, as is claimed. Woods was not connect
ed with the taking, that there was evidence of
a waiver of his exemption by plaintiff, which
ought to have been left to the jury, and that
the complaint claims damages only for the de
tention. That Woods was plaintiff in the at
tachment would, of course, be of itself in
sufficient to charge him with an
unlawful taking under it. But
he testifies, himself, that when
on his execution issued upon the judgment
rendered in the attachment Buit, the detendant
Sherman sold the horse, he became the pur
chaser, (he then knowing as the special verdict
finds, that it was exempt,) and that he after
wards sold the horse himself. The unlawful
act might be his either by his previously direct
ing, or subsequently ratifying it, and his a ts
testified to by himself amount to a ratification.
As to the waiver of the exemption, the com
plaint alleges that the taking was under the
attachment, and that the property was exempt.
The answer does not, as it ought to h~ve done,
if defendants relied upon it for a defense, allege
any waiver, so that it was not an issue in the
pleadings, and there is nothing to show that on
the trial the parties consented to try it, as
though it were in issue. The mere admission
of the evidence tending to prove a waiver does
not show such consent, for that evidence was
admissible for another purpose. The appellants
cannot complain that the court in its charge
did not give them the benefit of this evidence
that they might have been entitled to under
proper issues.
The rule of damages laid down the charge
is correct. The complaint claims damages as well
"for the taking as the detention and the action,
was tried on the theory that the value was the
proper measure of damages. Both parties,
without any objection, introduced evidence of
the value, and it was the only evidence as to
the damages.
Order affirmed. GILFILLAN, C. J.
HOW TO DEAL WITH MEXICO.
Tit* Mexican Authorities Unwilling to Put
a stop to StealingFolly of Half-Way
Measures.
[Galveston (Tex.J News.]
It is evident to everybody who has paid
the slightest attention to Mexican affairs
that the Mexican authorities at the City of
Mexico are not only unwilling, but also un
able, to enforce law and order. In fact, the
Mexican government has not sufficient re
liable force on the Rio Grande to enforce
their own custom-house regulations. Raid
ing into Texas could be broken up by co
operation with the Mexican troops but the
truth is the Mexicans do not propose to as
sist the United States forces at all, but, on
the contrary, to rally in defense of the
thieves, as they did when Gen. Mackenzie
followed a band ever the Rio Grande a few
weeks ago. This hostile action on the part
of the officers of the central government
joins the issue. There is now nothing left
for the United States government to do but
either to back completely down from the
order directing Gen. Ord to cross the Rio
Grande under certain circumstances, or"-lse
to uphold the order to its fullest extent, and
protect Texas from the Mexican side of the
Rio Grande. The Mexicans virtually declare
they will continue to fit out expeditions
for the purpose of invading Texas, and driv
ing stock back into Mexico, and that the
United States shall not be permitted to stop
it by following the thieves to their holes. If
it is, as has been semi-officially announced,
the intention of the Washington authorities
to uphold the dignity of the national flag,
and at the same time carry out the terms of
annexation, by affording Texas protection
against|Mexican banditti,it is to be hoped that
no half-way measures will be taken, as the
Texans are the only sufferers by them. It
has been the custom and policy of tho United
States to send troops across the Rio Grande
to stir up the hornet's nest, and then to fall
back, leaving the Texas frontiersmen to suf
fer from the raids of the exasperated Mexi
cans. The Rio Grande frontier, fourteen
hundred miles in length, is defended by less
than twenty-five hundred men, if such an
array of troops to that length of fjontier
can be called '-a defense." Hence, if hostile
expeditions are sent over into Mexico some
assurance should be given the Texans on the
border that they will be protected from the
retaliation which is sure to follow. To main
tain a status of aetual warfare on the Rio
Grande with less than twenty-five hundred
fighting men, is the height of absurdity on
the part of the secretary of war.
They Will be Poehler.
JWright County Eagle.]
The delegates in the late Second Con
gressional district Republican convention, a
majority of whom are federal office-holders,
are now flushed and full of courage, and'
they will go "Strait" until after the votes
are counted in November, when they will be
(Poehler) paler.
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GL.OBEI.ETS
Why don't the devil skate?Boston Post.
Who the devil's Kate?
About fifty scientists are now in Colorado
awaiting the eclipse of the sun.
Miss Sweetapple is the last heiress to arrive
at Saratoga. Petite and pretty, and as sweet
as her name.
Next to the dinner horn, the most popular
horn now-a-days is that which is taken just be
fore breakfast.
The weather is frequently too warm for work,
but it is never too hot for a boat-race, base
ball or a rifle match.
The Washington authorities, it is said, threat
en to suppress the sale of Dr Mary Walker's
new book, "Unmasked."
Sergeant-at-Arms Thompson hints that Con
gressman Sayler will handle the gavel in the
House at the next session.
Miss Fanny Davenport, the actress, returned
from London in the steamship England, which
arrived at New York on Monday.
The negroes in Barnwell county, 8. hava
increased 21 per cent, in ten years. They do not
seem much troubled by fears of extinction.
Miss Ada Dyas will probably be one of the
new company now in process of organization
by Miss Kate Claxton at the Lyceum New
York.
A Florida negro mistook a mule for a ghost,
and poked it with a stick. The verdict recited
that he came to his death by using too shoit a
stick.
Agnes Booth, one of the best leading ladies
on the stage, will be landlady during the sum
mer season at her husband's hotel, in Manches
ter, Mass.
A smoker Portsmouth, N. H., finding that
his cigar wouldn't draw, cut it open, and dis
covered a cartridge, with the bullet toward the
mouth end.
A woman recently died in California aged
143. As she never claimed to have danced or
flirted with George Washington she was proba
bly an impostor.
Mia. Barney Williams, it is said, is arranging
to go on the stage once more, and will repro
duce the pieces that have been made famous
by her deceased husband.
The dowager-queen Caroline Amaha, of
Denmark, who has just completed her eighty
second vear, is the oldest living member of any
of the royal families of Europe
Gold has been discovered vn Patagonia, but
as the women in that country are said to be the
ugliest in the world, the rush to the new dig
gings doesn't promise to be great
A praying band, three churches, and a young
men's association have combined in Oberlin,
Ohio, aganibt the first billiard room opened in
that place, but at last accounts tho billiard
room was ahead.
Women are becoming more numerous among
the stock speculators of San Francisco. They
are said to be more eager and reckless than
men, and pocket their gains and iepudiate their
losses with the utmost bang frmd.
Dan Rice, the showman, was prostrated with
the heat last week while travelling between
Sioux City and Ponca, Neb., but recovered. As
an indication of the seventy of the shock, it
may be said he couldn't make a joke about it.
A society gossip writing from New York of
Miss Bennett'b engagement adds by way of
postscipt, "I appears that we shall also have
to chronicle, at no distant date, the nuptials
of Mr. James Gordon Bennett and Miss Carrie
May."
The prefecture of the Seine has just termin
ated a census of the house propeity in Paris.
The total number of buildings is 75,526, and
the rental, $117,128,120, of which 650,744,450
is derived from tiades, and $GG,382,420 from
habitations.
Sportsmen who have been watching the pros
pects for the coming season say that there is
promise of better shooting of quail, Bquxrrel,
prairie chickens, and nearly all kinds of game
than there has been in any season for the last
twelve years.
A celebrated composer wrote to a friend, re
quested the pleasuie of his company "to
luncheon key of G." His friend, a thorough
musician, interpreted the invitation ughtl},
and came to the composer's house for a lunch
eon at one shatp.
Persons who have had the yellow fevor do
not seem to think that the common fear of it
is well founded. A New Yorker who was twice
attacked by the disease at Havana says I
would rather at any time have it than a Bevere
cold in the head."
Mrs. Senator Dorsey has been called the
handsomest woman in Washington. Her birth
place was Oberlin, Ohio, and her father is to
this day known as Old Wack. He is still a
tavernkeeper, a flat-footed, old currrndgeon, as
honest as the day is long.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is now on a visit to
Florence, after having spent the winter in
Rome. She receives the most distinguished at
tention, her dignified deportment and many
sided genius being greatly admired. Her
daughter, Miss Maud Howe, is greatly admired
by the Florentines.
The North Get man Gazette of Berlin sajs
that the Englishman, Mi. Bishop, who was re
cently condemned to two and a half years' im
prisonment for the bribery of officials, is now
said to have drawn considerable sums of money
from the intelligence department of a foreign
government in 1876 and 1877.
The Duke of Portland is tall, slender and
pale, and he likes cattle. He fattens his deer
on Spanish chestnuts, but he never fires a shot.
He farms 12,000 acres, and yearly raises 40,000
trout. He lives almost alone, shunning friends
more than he shuns workingmen. He is re
garded as an eccentric and misanthrope.
It was 102 degrees in the shade when George
Washington Childs, A. M., struck his lyre and
sang:
^ut away the broken pieces
Of our lost thermometer
Tears of perspiration Bhed we
O'er the fate befallen her.
Gone, but not forgotten, is she,
Write above her little grave
Write in language simple. "Busted
By an isothermal wave."
EAU CLAIRE ITEMS.
The Logs Can Come DownCrops Dam-
agedResidence Burned
[Special Telegram to the Globe.]
EAU CLAIRE, Wis., July 25.The heaviest
rain that has visited this section for two years
set in last night about midnight, continuing
through the night and well into to-day, with
not much present prospect of ceasing. If the
ram has been general throughout the region of
the upper Chippewa and tributaries, as there
is good reason to believe, there will be a rise
sufficient to bring down the logs remaining of
the last two year's cut.
The farmers began cutting wheat on Monday
and have had good, weather up to to-day, but
the rain will put a stop to their work, and will
thoroughly soak the gram already put in shock.
If the wet spell should be continued consider
able damage to the crop will result. The prob
ability now is that the wheat crop will not ex
ceed two thirds the estimate of a few weeks
ago, perhaps less.
A nre DioKe out rutbis city about 2 o'clock
this morning in the residence of E. 8. Chase,
which consumed that building and partially
destroyed the residence of Henry Cousins im
mediately adjoining, before it was checked.
Mr. Chase lost all his furniture and household
effects. The fire waB caused by the explosion
of a kerosene lamp. Total loss about *4,000
Mr. Chase left a few weeks ago to enter on his
duties as U. S. Marshall of Idaho, but the house
ww still occupied by Mrs. Chase and the chil
dren.