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VOL. 111. A GREATJTATE. THE men AM) IMPROVING teriu lOllY OF THE NORTHWEST. Surprising; Growth and Prosperity la M'u ncuit i In the Course of a .Few Yearn -An Itniueasa Railway System— Vps and Downs In the Good and th« Bid Times — Competence Ererywhere, Poverty No where. The above is tbe heading whiob tho Louis ville Courier-Journal places over an ex ceedingly valuable and interesting four oolumn lettor from St. Paul. Wo give tho following extracts: the ST. Paul; aiixsEAroLis * Manitoba BAIL WAV 13 to day tho pride of the State, and is under Boob management that it must soon rank as one of the nio.it important links iv the vast American railway system. The history of the road, briefly is: It was organized in 1857 as one of tho original '"land grant" roads, under the nama of the Minnesota & Pacific, and met disaster, with others. In 1562, under legislative acts of 1861 and 1862, it was re organized by must of the original incorpora tors, its former grant of six sections being increased to tea sections per mib. It par posed reaching into Dakota, westerly, and Manitoba, through the Sank valley, to the northwest. Ten miles of road were com pleted in 1802; St. Cloud, seventy-five miles, was not reached until 1867, and the main line reached Wayzata, on the splendid Lake Minnetonka, tho most famous of all Minnesota summer resorts, of late" ranch frequented by Southern people, the same year; the main line being (iaishoi to Breckinrid^e, on the Red river, in Octo b?r, 1871. In this year the Northern Pacific company purchased sufficient of the road to emiblo it to increase its bonded debt of about 915,000,000 to nearly $30,000,000, and, hay ing squeezed the orange dry, defaulted and transferred the dry hide to the stockholders. I Cha:>3 reigned and there was woe in Amster- | dam around the Ass->ci«ted Caste. In tho vigorous language of a railway official, "for nearly five years there was nothing but hell to pay.*' But at last along came THE HAS FOP. THE OCCASION, a not altogether unfrequent individual for American emergencies. This was James J. ilill— "Jim"' Hill, everybody here calh him, previously merely known as an enterprising partner of N. W. Kittson, in tho Had lliver freighting business, and a yonng gentleman that same of those fine day? will contest the kingship in railway eh playing with little Mr. Gould, of New York. Mr. Hill first received the support of such money kings as Donald J. Smith and George Stephen, president of tho ii ink of Montreal, an! then, by a series of most brilliant moves, not only obtained such legislation as would enable the parcaas-3 by any railway corpora tion, organized under the laws of the State, of railroad franchises r.nd property sold tinder mortgage foreclosure, bat so manipu lated the bedeviled Datch bondholders as to enable the present owners to retire all claims, consolidate all tills*, and secure by absolute decree all franchises and titles under fore closure sales: First — Of fan branch line, St. Paul to Sank Rapids (foreclosure of $2,800," 030 mortgage); second — main line, St. An thony to Breckinridge ($6,000,000 mortgage foreclosure); third — first mortgage, £3,000, 000, on first 150 miles of main line: fourth — branch lino from St. Paul to Sink Rapidj ($1,200,000 foreclosure): and fifth— the St. Vincent extension, to Manitoba via St. Cloud, Siuk Center, Alexandria, etc. (••? 15,000,000 mortgage foreclosure), consolidating, for a mere bagatelle, tho various branches into a great double-trunk line, penetrating and crossing tho richest portion of Mm- j nesota, eventually converging into j a grand single trn'jk lino a3 the only outlet of tuo vast northwestern empire, which stretches thousands of miles to the west and north from Manitoba under the title of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Mani toba railway, and backed by more ready money than any railway lino of its age and length in America. Tha organization, thus completed, last June elected Mr. Stephen, president of the 1! ink of Montreal, presi dent; N. W. Kittson, vica president (who has recently boon succeeded by Mr. It. I>. Angus, who resigned the position as general mana ger of the Bank of Montreal), and, very properly, Mr. Hill as general managor. The improvements since mads are no less remarkable than the negotiations ■ leading to the present organization. •It has completed its extension to St. Vincent, 3 gap of eighty miles: it has push ed its Dakota extension, which is to pene trate tho great wheat region north-westerly via Fort Totteu to the British line, from Crookston over the Had river to Grand Forks, fifteen miles, and completed grading quite a distance, beyond: it has re'aid its track between St. Paul and St. Cloud with 0,000 tons of stoel rails, while nearly 1,000 - tons have b;eu used elsewhere; it has erect ed forty-nine new elevators along its lines: it has built numberless p-issengor and freight depots, coal-sheds, section- houses, derrick-houses, frost-proof water tanks, and bridges; purchased hundreds of freight cars and many passenger coaches whoso olegonco and fittings would flharaa many of those on Eastern trunk lines: its freight and passenger business has increased 100 par cant.; an.l most incompre hensible of all, it his done what would par.v ly/3 almost any other railway directory — it has reduaod both its freight and passenger rates from twenty to twenty-fivo psr cent. ■The divisions ami mileage are: St. Paul to Breckenridge (the H?d river.) 217 miles: Breekenridge to B-irnesville, 30 miies: St. Paul to Bamesville (St. Vincent extension,) L'ir> mile?: Barnesville to St. Vincent (Brit ish bounday.) 170 miles; Crookston to Grand Forks (Dakota extension,) 27 miles; total within tho State. 660 miles. During tlio present yaar thj company will push its D-ikota extension rapidly toward Fort Totton on Davil'a Lake. D.ikota, and will constrncS^and equip before August 1 next a lino down from Siuk Canter on tho St. Vincent branch, iv tho beautiful Sank valley, southwesterly to Morris, where it will cross its own main lina. and from t-ienco nearly due west to the Dakot3 line at a point batwern Big Stone lake an:l Like Traverse, n diaivaco of about ninety-five miles. The St. Paal, Minneapolis A Manitoba compauy owns 2,500,000 asre3 of lands, and since June 23 last, the date of re >rgan:za tion, it his sold 111.128 acres, chietly what are kuowa as "K?J river wheat lands," for £490,000. Tho history of tha ST. RMJXi & StOUX CITT BULWAY also shows to a great degree the railway prosparity to be seen here in every direction. It was originally incorp as the Minne sota Valley railway, and reorganized with oth'r ro"ids in.^atioaaJ ia 1332, with a land grant of ten sections per mile, being con structed from Mendota, iiit above St. Paul, at th? 00 nfluenca of the Mississippi and Min nesota rivers, to Siiakopee. twenty-two miles. iv 18t;.">. Iv 18f>6 the road was built into West St. Paul from Meudota, six miles, an 1 extended to Lo Saeur, sixteen miles, in 1807, in IS(>S to Mankato, twenty-fonr miles furthor, aud tho roai the same year built over tho Mississippi iuto St. Paul. In l^G'.i, Lake Crystal, thirteen miles, was reached: and iu*lS7(>, St. James, twenty three miles more, wero completed. From St. James southeasterly tho road wjs built by tho Sioux City and St. Paul company, an lowa organization, whioh oon s:ructed. in 1871, fifty-six miles to Worth ington, completing ihe line to the junction of the Illinois Central road at Lo Mars, sixty seven miles, in September, 1872, leasing and operating jointly with the latter road, twen ty-four miles of track, into Sioux City. In 1876 a branch running duo west was begun at Worthington, and constructed thirty-four miles to Lnverne, the next year reaching Beaver Creek, eight miles, and was complet ed to Sioux Falls, Dakota, a distance of sixty-three miles, in 1878. Daring the last year tho so called Blue Earth branch was built southerly from Lake Crystal, on the main line, to Blue Earth City, thirty four milo 3 . and the Black Hills branch, ex tending northwesterly toward the Missouri river into Dakota, was built from Heron Lake, also on the main line, iv Minnesota, to Woodstock, forty-four miles, while the same S3f.=>on the liock river branch, extend ing from Luverne, on the Sioux Falls branch, down the Itock river valley into lowa to I)jon, twenty-fonr miles, was con strp.cted. Ou Oct. 1 last the most IHPOBXASX EVEST IS THE EOAd's HI3TORT oa«arred. This was tho complete consolida tion of all the than existing branches, mak ing the road one of the great trunk lines of the West, with feeders extending in every direction into the rich stock and farming sections of Minnesota, Dakota, lowa and Nebraska. At about the same time the St. Paul & Sioux City purchased the St. Fan!, Stillwater & Taylors Falls road, a line extend ing from St. Panl to Stillwater and Taylors Falls, with n branch to Hudson, on the St. Croix, which penetrates the great pine re gion of St. Croix, and on which, bat twelve miles from St. Paul, is the noted summer resort, Lske Elmo; and about the same time j purchased tho Covington, Columbus & Black Hills road, extending westward from Coving j ton, oppisite Sioux City, into Nebraska, to i\inoa, twenty-six miles, as also — to take ef fect Monday next — the Omaha <fc North Ne braska, from Omaha north to Oakland, sixty-throe miles, and to bo immediately ex tended in a direct line to Sioux City. The future traffio of this road must be immense; the country it traverses is unsurpassed; and the liberal policy of its management in de veloping the sections which feod it, aa well as inducing tho settlement of its unoccupied lanrln by Ktock-r::isers and B general popula tion beat fitted to bring: out the wealth of the splendid soil and climate, can not but insure most speedy aud profitable increase of its already great business, as well as mostsplen- ! did results to tho genera! prosperity of this vast North WOOL Many thousands of acres were sold during the past season along its lines in Sontrnve3tern Minnesota and North western lowa, and the road now owns aud operates in the formar State 313 miles of splendidly equipped road. THE SOUTHERN PJUBFIO BAILBOAT) h:is probably received more gushing praise and more stalwart pen-lashings than any other twenty American schemes. Time has simply demonstrated these few siubbsru tacts: that tho convictions of such men as j Charlie Coflin ("Carleton"), of Joy Cooke | and of Gov. Smith, of Vermont, that the route was feasible, were correct: that the "damned barren ideality" of an Isotherm J was not a more dream; that the road, with : its magnific3nt government aid and splendid j bond subscriptions, was managed with a i recklessness unpreceJentedly criminal ; that | the same led to general financial ruin all over the oouutry and gave Minnesota rail way iuterosts their third and most dire dis aster; taut the corporation, properly man aged, would have been a magnificent success I j from tbe outset : and now, that it has first j I class ii^'uiessive, though conservative men in | control, liko General Manager Sargent, long j connectoi with tha Miohigtn Central, per manent prosperity, as well &<i that of a mag nincont country to a great extent dependent upon it, has assuredly been reachod. The milage of its operated lines now ii.: Daluth to Fargo, on the li^d River, 251 miles; Gistleton branch, 3"> miles; Fargo to Bismarck, 19S milem Pacific division, 187 miles, or a total of G2l mil-'*. 2'tl m:les of which nre within Minnesota. The company's Routhern and eastern connections, via St. Paul, are msde over the tracks of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba from Sank Rapids. The best evidence of tha wonderful rap idity with which this greU fertile bait is in creasing in settloment is in tbe data given I me by Mr. Power, the company's land com missioner. Sine« the date of tho roorgan izatign of tho road, September 20, is?, 1 ), un til Djcetcbsr 1 last, the company have sold to parties, most of whom wore actual s.'t tlers, 1,710,210 acres for •157,3• 1 $7,3G 1 J,114, and along its main line between Fargo and Bis marck, in Dikola, sinc3 about the sama date has gathered a p jpnlation of batwean :!0,0()0 ! and 10,000, evary one of whom if in corn- I fortable circumstances, and many really j wealthy. THE ACTCAL MILEAGE of completed and operated railway within the State of Minnesota is, therefore : Chicago & Northwestern 414 j St. Paul, Minneapolis it Manitoba (560 i Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul BS4 St. Paul&Sionx City 343 Northern Pacific 251 Minneapolis & St. Louis 13 .) St. Paul & Duluth 153 Total 2,5i9 four hundred and fifty and three-fourths miles of which were built during tho past year. This is not a bad record for a State only just "of age, v and which, until eighteen years sines, had bat twenty miles of road altogether. Bit this is no more remarkable than WHAT IS IN STO2K fcr thh great northwestern country, of which Minnesota 13 the crowning portion. The Northwestern will extend its branches in every direction into Dakota. The Chicago, Milwaukee <fc St. Paul will rival the former in the sams direction, and immediately. The St. Paul & Sioux City will interweave the rich an?a co npri.sing the contiguous cor ners of Minnesota, lowa. Nebraska and Da kota. Tho S f . Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba will construct and put in operation bsfore the next harvest i 3 in readmes3 ninety -five mil&3 of roa 1, from Sank Centre, in the beau tiful Sauk valley, to Brown's valley, at the head of Big Stone lake, and then ran the westerly ram with other trunklins3, bssides pushing its upper Dakota extension from Crookston northwest toward Ft. Totten. The Northern Pacific people are rushing toward the wonderful Yellowstone conntrv. Cols. DeGraff and Crooks, the noted con tractors, are at the head of anew line from Little Falls, on the Upper Mississippi, to p. 153 through tho Sauk valley, tonching Glea wood, on the beautif al Lake Whipple, named in honor of Bishop Whipple, of Faribiult, and thence, crossing the St. Paul. Minneapo ST. PAUL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 18£0. lia & Manitoba, to the tho Red river, at Brown's valley, which, lam told, would doubtless prove a feeder to the Northern Pacific. Gen. Becker has iv hand a proposed line to be called the Travare and Jamestown railway, to extend from, at or near Brown's Valley" northwesterly through Dakota, orons iug the Northern Paoifio at Jamestown, 133 miles, and thenoo on northwest through the Moose river country to tho British line, 200 miles further, with a branch midway extend ing westerly to Fort Stevenson, on the upper Missouri. The Minneapolis &. St. Louis will com plete and put in operation ihe presont sea son an extension'of one hundred and five mites, from Albert Lea, Minn., to Fort Dodge, lowa, and will shortly build from White Baar Lake into the Wisconsin lum ber district, and ultimately extend the line to some point on Lake Superior, probably Ashland or Bayfield. The St. Paul aud Duluth aro building linos from Thomson to Knife Fall?, on the St. Louis river, to reach three thousand mil lion feet of lumber, and also a branch from Rush City to Grantsburg, Wisconsin. A narrow-guage line from Minneapolis to the Minnesota river is projected. The St. Piul Eastern Grand Traak, giving another outlet through Northern Wisconsin via Chippowa Falls. Tho Dulath .& Winnipeg railroad, from Duluth northeast, connecting with the Brit ish system at some point in Manitoba. And the much-mooted, and curtain to bo constructed ''Sault St. Marie route;'" virtual ly from St. Paul through Northern Wiscon sin, and the Michigan peninsula, giving a route from St. Paul to I iverpool COO miles shorter via Montreal than via Chi cago and Naw York. All the VAST WEALTH completed railways, and Boou-toba-cora pleted railways, represent i 3 certainly the consequent, if not the direct prodaot of the splendid resources of Minnesota and the im mense country beyond. Thero is compe tence everywhere; poverty nowhere. No country on earth is better provided with all that isneedfal aud beautiful. Tho family that came here, or into northern lowa, or Dakota, or even Manitoba, foar or live years since, are to-diy in better condition than half tho farmers of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Water and timber were never elsewhere so splendidly distributed, and every inch of earth responds bountifully to the farmer's touch. Take three-fourths of Minnesota and look upon it in any direc tion and thero is not only a beauty of land scape bordering enchantment, but the fa mous Mohawk valley in New York State can not produce more complete pictures of splendid thrift and ronnded opulence. The reasons for thia lie simply in an ua equaled climate, compelling general health; in such beautiful soenery as cannot bnt ob tain to a people's elevation and moral good; in the natural provision of all those things most contribntable to the complement of public need; in a soil whosa tilling i 3 not far removed from real pleasure; in results from labor which invariably yield a harvest of satisfaction and enojaragument: and, while the fruits of the soil are less expen sively brought to fruition than 13 true of other sections, they have here a higher and more permanent value. It id not true that wheat is aloue dep3nd eJ upon — all other small grains yield large ly ; corn is extensively cultivated ; and stonk raising and dairying are becoming general, liat, were wheat the only profitable prodaot, no like area on earth is provided with a mar ket so valuable, bo general and so per nmient. Nearly every town and crossroads in the State has its mill, with a capacity of from twenty-fiv3 to 100 barrels of flour, or 110 to I •"."> busheUof grain: and from one year's f nd to another the farmer has it ia his pow er to get a splendid price cash — no "store truck" — for his whaat. while other grains and vegetables, dairy products and stock find equally a ready and profitable sale. It it any wonder that Minnesota and Da kota farmers are getting rich, and are among tho most independent, gratified and com fortable individuals of which there is any record; or that thousands upon thou sands are coming where such conditions exist in fact rather than on paper; or that Minnesota's vast railway system, reaching in every direction from its splen did manufacturing and trade marts, Minneapolis and St. Paul, and bringing tho ; r tributes and carrying their produots and oxsh*nge3 to remotest borderers pushing out with now feeders, or tapping new and rnh Rourcas of supply, with such wonderful rapidity, but not a moment too soon or a mile too fast. Of the two Eplendid cities, ST. PADL AND MINNEAPOLIS, which I choose to regard as one great city, there are not their equals in beauty, in en terprise, in actual commercial importance, for their age, in tho world. Their growth and importance have just begun. Bat do not stop here. Go 500 miles to the southwest, to the wast, and 1,000 to the northwest, and you will find preci39ly tho same energy, the same bright present, the same future sure pros p-Tity, whioh render 3 a visit here a vi3it to tie wonder-'ind, tho promise land of Amer ica. ED3AB L. WAKEMAN. Another failure to Tap the Barrel. Sosahtos, Pa., Feb. 3. — It is reported here that Samuel J. Tilden will be marrisd to Miss Fanny Kauck, of Lewisburg, Pa., this week. New Yoke, Feb. 3. — Tilden's secretary furnished the following regarding the re port of the approaching marriage of Tilden to Miss Ilauck, of Lewisbarg : Mr. Tilden nays the report ia as true as about nine tenths of tbe statements concerning him d lily published. That is, not at all. He presumes that the authors of the rumor have tscted on the maxim of equity and jur isprudence that what ought to have been done is in fact doce, bat unfortunately he never had tho pleasure of knowing of the existence of any such lady. ALL AHOI'ND THE GLOBK. The Stato Republican convention, of Con necticut, to elect delegates to the National con vention, it called at New Haveu, April 7. A heavy snow fall was ragins; in the Black Hills, yesterday. A D^adwood, D. T., dUpatch, in giving an account of the fight between the Gros Ventres and a roving band of Sioux.'specially reported from Bisaaarck in the Globk of yesterday, says the Groat Ventres lost Lone Bull and Old Beaver killed, while Skunk and Long Tail were wounded. Dileeaten of nine societies of Lowell, Mass. , voted yesterday not to parade next St. Pat rick's day, but instead to have a coffee party in three we?ki, the proceeds of which to go to the suffering poor of IrelanJ. The stove moulders at Heading. Pa., are on a strike for 13 per cent, advance on present wages. The Southworth piper mill at West Bpring fisld, Mass.. the oldest paper mill in the State, burned yesterday. Loss. 470,000. The pope's health is agaiD declared unsatis factory. Postmaster General Key, to-day, filed his de murrer in the lottery letter case in the supreme court of the district. It is understood the complainant will immediately join issue on this plea, and that tbe case will come up for an early hearing. EASTERN BLIZZiRD GREAT SHOW FALL AND DESTRUC TIVE WINDS. _________ The Severest Storm on the JAUautlclCoast for Years-RaUroadi Blockaded In all Dl reotions-Snew Piled up to the Depth of Ton Feet in Places— Long Branch aud Coney Island Devastated by Mud and Water— Hotel* Wrecked, Wharves, Bath Houses and Numerous Structures Swept Away— Coasting Vessels Blown Ashore— Fears for the Safety of Fishing Fleets- Blown from the Cars and Killed— Other Disasters. New Yobk, Feb. 3.— The snow storm which begun shortly after midnight last night was the most severe storm of the win ter thus far. Although but three or four inches of snow fell on a level the wind drift ed it from the roofs of houses and from ex posed cross streets, and in many places the snow was packed a foot or moae deep. The snow was so fine and fell so fast navigation on the rivers was very difficult, the veil of snow forming as great a barrier as a heavy fog. The storm increased in violence and the wind rose to a perfeot gale. Just before daylight tie wind, whioh was from the north west, reached the greatest velocity, forty eight miles an hour. It blow at this rate from 5 till 8:30 o'clock, and the ferry boats and other craft in the rivers and bay were tossed about roughly. The night on the sound nas a very wild one, and pilots of sound steamers say the wind was fiercer than any which they had experienced for a longtime. But all the boats got through safely, though somewhat behind time, and the waters was very rough, making some of the passengers seasick. Railroad trains were somewhat delayed. The snow is rapid ly disappearing from tho streets, rain con verting it into mud, and the elu3h making walking abominable. TKAINS BLOCKADED. PouauKEKi-siE, N. V., Feb. 3.— A heavy snow storm along the Hudson last night and to-day. East of here near the State line the wind blow a hurrioane, and snow drifts are ten feet deep. Trains on the roads running east and west are blockaded. LONG BBANOH DEVASTATED. Loxo Branch, Feb. 3. — The most severe and destructive storm that ever visited this coast prevailed to-day. The wind blew with tremendous fury, carrying away summer houses, pavillions, bath-honses and portions of the pizzas and roofs of nearly all the hotels on the shore. A brig i-i ashore at Saabright, and a schooner a mile north, and another a half-mile south of this place. The iron pier is injured to some extent. DESTBUOTION OF CONEY ISLASD. Nkw Yobk, Feb. 3.— The high tide and tremendous gale caused serious damage at Coney Island. The water broke through between the pavilion and hotel at Brighton, tearing up the planking and flooding the back grounds. Engemann's wooden pier in front of the Ocean house, Brighton Beach, was swept away. Tho beach is strewn with floating timbers and some of the small pieces oro floating over the raca course on which the water is about two luo'ies deep. It is impossible to get lo Manhattan, bnt as viewed from Brighton the waves were flying over the road, but the hotel was nninjnrod. The old band stand at Brighton is probably swift away ero this. At West Brighton all the bathing houses and port able structures are floating around or smash ed on the beach. The waves reached the fl K>r of the ircn pier and some structures thereon were carried away. The Islanders say they have never witnessed so severe a storm. The danger to the hotels and rail roads was made manifest by the presenca at the beach of many railroad men. A man, name unknown, went to the end of Brighton pier, this forenoon, and was carried away with a portion of the structure. BLOWN FBOM HIS TJUIN AND KILLED. New Yobk, Feb. 3. — This forenoon Wm. Murphy, brakaman on the Hudson River railroad, was blown from the train and killed. Enolishville, N. J., Feb. 3. — Edward Neil, a Now York newsboy, while passing through a train of cars this forenoon, was blown from the platform and killed. FI3HING FLEETS ENDANGERED. Boston. Feb. 3.— Dispatches from varioas quarters along the coast represent the storm as terrible. Much damage to shipping, and fears are entertained for the safety of tho fishing fleets. DEEr SNOW. Whiteuaix, N. V., Feb. 3. — Suow from a foot to fifteen inches deep along Lake Cham plain, and still falling. MISCELLANEOUS. Manas^uan, N. J., Feb. 3.— The roof of the Pennsylvania Railroad depot was blown away to-night by tho gale, together with the wind wheel of the company's reservoir. The loss will exceed $5,000. Halifax, N. S., Feb. 3.— The heaviest snow storm of the saason has been raging all this forenoon and continued thia even ing. Atlanticville, N. J., Feb. 3.— The cap tain of the brig Augustine, wbioh came ashore here to-day, shot himself when he saw the vessel must bo wrecked. The crew were saved with difficulty. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Office of Observation, Signal Corps, U. B. A. Isokbsoll Block, Third Street, St. Paul, Minn. Observations taken at the same moment of time at all station 1 Meteorological Record, Feb. 3, 1880, 9:50 P. K. Bar. Ther. Wird. Weather. Breckenridge... 30. 15 -13 N. Clear. Dululh 30.05 0 NW. Clear. Garry 30.03 -1 NE. Thr'g. St. Paul 30.03 3 BV7. Clear. Yankton 30.20 12 Calm. Cloudy. DAILY LOCAL MEANS. Bar. Ther. Bel. ham. Wind. Weather . 30.010 9.0 f.3.3 NW. Fair. Amount of melted snow, .00; maximum thermometer, IS; minimum thermometer, -3 -Below zero. Note — Barometer corrected for temperature and elevation. O. 8. M. Conk, Sergeant Signal Corps, U. S. A. WEATHER TO-DAY. Washington", Feb. 4. — 1 a. m. — Indications for upper lake region : Light snow, followed by clearing weather, rising followed by falling barometer, northwest to sonthest winds, and slight changes in temperature. For the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys: Cold northwesterly winds, shifting to southwest with slowly rising barometer, and during day falling barometer, with partly cloudy weather, followed by snow daring night in northern portions. ■ London, Feb. 3. — Acceptances for the spring handicap include Parole^ Falsetto, i Mistake, Wallenstein, Sly Dance, Pappoose, Geraldine, Nereid and Boreas. (KlnbE. IT TROVES TO BE MURDER, Death of Jack Vorheeo, the Victim of an Assault Lust August. About nightfall last Friday evening a mes senger hurriedly entered the Globe office and imparted the startling information that hn W. Vorhees, the supposed victim to a brutal pounding, was lying at the point of dissolution at the Tremont house and de sired the Globe to take his dying declara tion. A reporter for the Globe hastened to the bedside of tho dying man, whoso case had been given up as beyond recovery by four physicians who had held a consultation a few hours previously. The man was found in throes of dissolu tion surrounded by a bevy of ladiss whose untiring attentions had ministered untold comfort to the expiring patient. A glance at the sufferer, who was sinking rapidly, demonstrated that he was unable to stand the ordeal of conversation, his powers of articulation being such as not to permit of anything more in the way of speech than a gasp or whisper. The reporter was accompanied to the door by a lady attendant who volunteered to send a messenger in case he should sufficiently re cover to make a statement. The day following an article appeared in the Globe calling attention to tbo condition of the sufferer and giving the particulars of the assault, from which ho never folly re covered, and of which he is the supposed victim. At 8:30 o'clock yesterday morning John W. Vorhees expired at his room, in the Tremont house, corner of Eighth and Robert streets, and it remains for a coroner's jury, which will be summoned this morning, to determine to what causa his death is attrib utable. In the technical parlance of the medical profession, his death was directly caused by inflammation of the pericordium or enlarge ment of the membrane which covers the heart. Indirectly the disease was superinduced from undue "excitement," whioh several eminent physicians are ready to depos9, should the case come to trial, was directly duo to the pounding which the victim received last autumn, since when he has not been a sound man nor has never enjoyed a night's rest. The particulars of the assault, details o f whioh have appeared in previous issues of the Globe, may be summarized as follows : On the night of August 31, 1879, at 11 o'clock the deceased was proceeding down Fifth street, in the vicinity of Minnesota street, was accosted by three rowdies who, for a fancied grievance, subjected him to the most ruffianly assault that has ever taken place in this city. The trio of thugs wero arrested and an swered to the names of Patrick Eigan, Michael Daly and John Donovan, all of whom were arraigned at the police court the next morning, but owing to the precarious condition of the victim to the assault the hearing was continued for one week. The examination took place on the 9th of September, and it was shown conclusively that Eagan and Daly had been the aggres sors to the assault, which was described by Mollie Wells, an eye witness, as being tho most brutal and unprovoked assault ever witnessed in St. Paul. The testimony acquitted Donovan, while Daly and Eagan were fined $25 each, on the payment of which they were discharged. Ever since the fatal night the victim to tho outrage has been a confirmed invalid. Under skillful medical treatment ho recovered suf ficiently to undertake a trip to Crookston, which was mado in December, the cold and exposare consequent, upon which is sup posed to have accellerafcd his death. About two weeks ago his internal mala dies became so pronounced that he was forced to take to hi 3 bed, from which ho has never nrisen. On Friday last, directly after tha consul tation, ho conversed quite freely with Mrs. Patterson, the landlady of the house, and during the conversation ha expressed a de sire that in tho event of his death, tl'e pub lic should be appraised that, in his own opin ion, it resulted from the unfortunate attack of the 31st of August. The same sentiments were conveyed by deceased a short time before his death to bis brother who was summoned from Michi gan and who was at his side when he ex pired. An inquest has boon called by sever al leading physicians and Coroner Daven port will investigate the cause of death at 10 o'clock this morning. BYKX K— M i: Kill LI,. Both Divorced, They Proclaim Themselves Married to Each Other. [New York Star.] Mrs. Alfa A. Merrill, the divorced wife of Dr. A. P. Merrill, was married oh the 20th inst. to Charles A. Byrne. Mrs. Byrne became stage-struck two or threo years ago, and when ha lsarned that she was studying for the profession her husband reluctantly gave his consent for her debut. Tho next object was to conciliate tho dramatic news paper which Byrne was publishing. The principal conciliation wag of a pecunU ary nature, and Byrne began to extol Mrs. Merrill as the coming Siddons of the stage. Acquaintance was followed by intimacy be tween i^vrne and Mts. Merrill, and Dr. Mer rill saw, in time, that separation from his wife was the meat comfortable thing for him. A divorce was secured, the decree for which recites that — The said plaintiff, Alfred P. Merrill, may marry again, as though the said Alfa A. Mer rill were actually dead; bat that tho said de fendant, Alfa A. Merrill, shall not marry until the said Alfred P. Merrill is actually d«ad. To evade the legal prohibition imposed, Byrne and Mr?. Merrill announced theirrin tention of going to Canada and there mary ing. They quit this city late on Tuesday night.it is asserted, ostensibly for Canada. The day before Mrs. Merrill told a friend that they were going to Toronto, but in this she must have been disappointed, for it is impossible that they could have reached that city, complied with tho provisions of the Ca nadian law, been married in form, and re turned yesterday. Immediately on the announcement of the marriage letters were written by the parties in adverse interest, and inquiries set on foot calculated to discover the place where the ceremony was performed. As soon as defi nite information is at hand legal proceedings will be instituted. Mr. John D. Townsend, of counsel for Mrs. Laura Byrne, said yes terday that thsro would be no lapse in the proceedings instituted by Mrs. Byrne for possession of the pape , which by right be longs to her, or of the suit pending against Byrne. Byrne's first wife was Laura Timian, whose husband, Louis Timian, left this city about twelve years ago in such a physical condition that it was not supposed he could live to reach Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Timi an had formally parted, she to remain here and he to return to Germany to die. After three years it was reported that Timian had died. The reputed widow received Byrne's attentions, and, as she says, "married him to get rid of him." The citizens of the town > of Northfield, Rice county, voted the other day on the proposition to secure an apparatus to extin guish fire, and the vote resulted in 201 ma jority. RAILROAD EARNINGS. Keports for Taxation of (lie St. Panl, Min neapolis & Manitoba and St. Panl A Bloux City Companies— The Former Con tributes $04,754.51 to Support the State and the Latter $35,840.60. . The railroad commissioner received, yes terday, the report of gross earnings of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railroad company from its taking possession of its property in June last to December 31st last, a period of six months and seventeen days, as follows: From freight ?1,038,660 46 Passengers 342,229 74 Mail* 20,485 58 Express 16,907 72 Rents 21,87681 Miscellaneous 11,434 54 Total $1,451,594 82 On this sum of earnings the company pays a tax of three per cent, or f 43,547.84. The reported earnings on tbe same lines of road for five months and twelve days of 1879, up to the time of their transfer to the present company amounted to $706,888.81, on which a tax of $ 21,200.67 was paid, mak ing the total tax paid by the St. Paul & Manitoba lines for 1879, $64,754.51. The gross earnings of those lines for the year ap pear to have amounted to 12,158,488.63, al though it does not clearly appear that the proportionate earnings of the St. Vincent extension were included in the report for the first part of the year. For the year 1878 the gross '-amines of the same lines amounted to f 1,559,197.66, the increase of 1879 being $599,290.97, or over 38 par cent. The St. Paul & Sioux City company reports its gross earnings of 1879 on the -mam lino from St. Paul to tbe lowa border, and on the Worthington & Sioux Falls branch from Worthington to the Dakota border, at $903,944.02. On the main line earnings (1840,361.20) it pays a tax of 3 per c?nt. or $25,210.84, and on tho branch line earnings ($63,582.82) it pays a tax of 1 per cent, or $635.82— the total tax being $25,846.66. The returns of 1878 wero made by different organizations and do not afford data for comparison, except as to the main line in Minnesota, on whioh the increase of earnings in 1879 was about $99, 777.44 or 12.4 per cent, over 1878. CRIMES AND C ISUA.LTIES. COUNTY HOSPITAL BURNED. Milwaukee, Feb. 3.— The county hospital located on the county farm, in tbe town of Wouwatosa, was destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. On account of the books being burned the exact number of in mates is nM known, but are supposed to have been over sixty. Thirty were carried out and others made their own escape. Two bodies have been recovered, one Christian Nelson, the other not known. The walls partially fell in and it is thought there are several bodies yet among the ruins. Loss about $25,000. Origin of fire supposed to have been a defective flue. Lateb. — It is now known that all but two inmates of the hospital were rescued — Mrs. Christian Nelson, a feeble minded woman ninety years of age, and Fred. Sohorff, an insane man. They were awakened and came into tho hall, but instead of following the others into tho open air probably returned to their rooms and perished. BOND THEFT. Philadelphia, Feb. 3. — A young man en tered the office of the Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit company, yesterday, and, the attention of the clerk being diverted, stole fourteen one thousand dollarbonds of Crane, Lion & Co., held by the deposit company as collateral. FIBE BUGS. Boston, Feb. 3. — A large fire occurred in Albany street that was iacendiary. Evidences have been discovered of plans to fire other lumber yards. TO HANG. Newton, N. J., Feb. 3. — Frederick Crille, convioted of the murder of hi 3 daughter ha 3 been sentenced to bo hanged April 3d. BAILBOAD COLLISION. Buffalo, Feb. 3. — The St. Louis express, from New York, due here eariy this morn ng, ran into a freight train at Croft's Sta tion, thirty miles cast of here, and three sleepers, a freight car and the freight engine were thrown from the track. No lives re ported lost. SUICIDE OF A BANK CASHIKB. Augusta, Me., Feb. 3.— lsrael Boothley> cashier of the First National bank, shot him. self fatally to-day, after jumping into a ois torn on tho bank's premises with weights at tached to his, feet. Tho directors say the accounts are probably all right. ANOTHEE EARTHQUAKE SHOCK. Havana, Feb. 3. — On the Ist instant an other earthquake shook occurred at Candi- Jaria, in the district of Vuelta Abajo. Three oscillations were felt, the direction being from east southeast to west, northwest. A slight tremor of the earth was felt some time afterwards. A DETEBIIINED SUICIDE. Newark, N. J., Feb. 3.— Chas. Decker, a prominent merchant, committed suicide to day, blowing his head off with a cannon, constructed from a large hollow piece of iron, which he filled with powder and slugs, placed under his chin, and fired off with a match. DESrEBADO SHOT. Deadwood, D. T., Feb. 3.— Detectives Lewellyn and Boonemay, after capturing Leo Grimes, a notorious desperado and one of Doc Middleton's gang, shot and instantly killed him last night while he was trying to escape. lilaze in Pennsylvania. HABHior-usa, Feb. 3. — A caucus of Blame delogates was held to-night at which there were 10. r > votes cast in his interest. After wards s. caucus of all the delegates was held, and it was decided by 123 to 110 that the convention to-morrow should select dele gates to national convention. The other day, while A. H. Kellogg was gettin3 out ice east of the village of Pine Island, noar the railroad bridge, he was pre cipitated head foremost into the water, which was ten feet deep. He was alone, and his cries brought no assistance. Being un able to swim and encumbered with his wet, heavy clothing, his escape was marvelous, as the current was calculated to draw him under the ice. Bet he did succeed in working himself out on to solid ice. The postofßce at Benson, Carver county, has been re-established, much to the satis tisfaction and great accommodation of the citizens of that village. Casper Kron schnabel has been appointed postmaster. The purchasing committee of the Interna tional and Great Northern Railroad' compaiy opened bids yesterday for 600,000 first mort gage cis per cent. gold bonds. The bids amount ed to $2,588,000, and bonds were awarded to the highest bidden at Oo, l^ to 97 per cent. NO. 35 WORK OR BREAD. THE CRT OS" THE PEOPLE OF CLOIT MEL, IRELAND. Daly and .Companions Granted an Kxtejg* ■ion of Time— Operations of the Mansion House Fund Committee— Phllllpplne Islands Swept by a Hurricane— Many Vessels Wrecked and Crews Lost— General and Political Old World News. IRELAND. Dublin, Feb. 3. At a meeting of the mansion house committee the lord mayor referred to reports that three inquest* had been held in the neighborhood of Parsons Town, wherein the verdicts were rendered of death from destitution and stated that no application for relief had been received front that district. WOBK OB BREAD. Clonmel, Ire., Feb. 3. — A large number of unemployed people, to-day, made a de monstration before the mayor's office, de manding work or bread, accompanying their demands with a threat to sack the baker shops. EXTENSION OF TIMB. Dublin, Feb. 3.— The Irish Court of Queen's bench granted Davitt, Daly, Killen and Brennan an extension of time to plead, and orders have been given to furnish the accused with copies of the Indictments against them. It is believed their trials will be had in March. MANSION HOUSE FUND. The mansion boose relief committee to day, Lord Mayor Grey, presiding, it was an nounced that 41,115 pounds of sterling had been received by the committee to date, and 15,400 pounds distributed. Replies to in quiries from the lord mayor had been re ceived from thirty bishops, including three Catholic archbishops and one Protestant archbishop, repudiating Parnells oharge of discrimination against rent defaulters, and expressing entire confidence in the "commit tee. FRANCE. >% ______ COMMERCE WITH AMBBIOA. Pabis, Feb. 3. — De Freycinet, president of council and minister of [foreign affairs, replying to a deputation of the St. Etiedne chamber of commerce, said he appreciate* the importance of a treaty of commerce with America, and would take the snbjeot into consideration as soon as Terard, minister of commerce, placed it before him. v ENGLISH GRAIN. TBADK UNSETTLED AND FBICES DECLINING!. London, Feb. 3.— The Mark Lane Ex press says: Since the frost has again stop ped all agricultural work and closed naviga tion, and seriously impeded the unloading of vessels, whilst fogs have checked business, growing wheat made no apparent progress and in many fields it hasn't appeared above ground. It is feared this renewal of frost will baa severe trial on autumn sown grain. A great deal of land is yet nnplowed. There is little alteration in the quantity or condition of English grain sent to market, which is still in a damp and defective con dition. Owing to this fact and the inoreaseH pressure to sell on the part of farmers, there was a decline of 2s per quarter last Monday, which has not since been- recovered, nearly all influences now dominant in the market having remained on the side of the buyers. Imports have been on a tolerably liberal scale for midwinter, shipments from India and southern Russia coming to hand pretty freely. This excess of supply over demand, coupled with the rapid fall of prices in America, caused a decline of a shilling per quarter. Business during the week has been marked by a good deal of indecision, de ■ spite the inclination of holders in conse quence of the further increase in the visible supply in America, to accept low er prices. Bayers operated very cautiously though American prices are now reduced to a level with those ruling in this country. A further reduction there is required, as with out some margin of profit, importers can scarcely bo expected to operate. Feeding stuffs quiet. The only noteworthy charge being an advance in main of a shilling per quarter, owing to its decided scarcity on the spot. Arrivals at ports of call have fc_g_ small. Although only a moderate business has been done, red winter wheats have shown a rather firmer tendenoy. Gkerkas improved about a shilling per quarter. Maize with a few transactions maintain** late rates. Wheat for ' shipment was very inactive. Buyers seem quite indif ferent to the speculative fluctuations cabled from America. Barley remains steady. Maize attracts little attention. Bales of English wheat, last week, 38452, quarters at 45a 3d per quar ter, against 5,534 quarter! at 38s 4d, the corresponding week last year. Imports into the United Kingdom the week ending January 24, 744,350 owts. wheat, 288,674 cwts. flour. GENERAL FOREIGN. HUBBICINB. Madrid, Feb. 3.— An official telegram an nounced the occurrence of a terrible hurri cane at the Philippine islands, whioh cauMd great damage both on the islands and to shipping. Several merchant ships and Spanish gunboats were wrecked. The Ut ter are reported total losses, with all their crews. DEATH SOIX. Paris, Feb. 3.— Charles DeLessepa, cousin of Ferdinand De Lesseps, and MadatM Ore mieux, wife of Isaacs Adolph £. Cremimi. republican life senator, are dead. London, Feb. 3. — Bight Hon. Sir L*o Hamilton Seymour, returned diplonaatiai, and Rev. Henry Woule, a prominent philan thropist and clergyman, and still more prominpit sanitarian, discoverer of the drj earth system, aie dead. 4MEBICAN BACINGt ACCEPTANCE*. Exposure to drafts when heated, and sudden changes in the temperature of the atmosphere, are prolific sonrces of severe Golds, from which many cases of inflammation of tho Lnngs, Pleurisy, Asthma and other Pulmonary Affec tions are developed. Should yon unfortunate ly contract a cold, resort at once to Dr. Jayne'i Expectorant, a remedy that will not only enra Coughs and Colds, bat will relieve and ntr«nKth en the Pulmonary and Bronchial Organs, aad remove all dangerous symptoms. For the first time in English history a polioa agent has been attached to the personnel of the sovereign, and rooms have been fitted np for him and his family st Windsor Castle. The palaces, within and without, have always been guarded by police, the military being chiefly for ornament. The new agent will alway'l travel with the queen.