Newspaper Page Text
i Official PsD«r of th« City and County. Prin and Published Every Day in the Year. BT THE 11. PAUL LOBE PRINTING ; COMPANY No. 17 Wabashaw Street, St. Paul. THE DAILYGLC©E~ SEVEN ISSUES PER WEEK, Daily and Sunday Globe; one pollae per month. BIX ISSUES PEB WEEK— MAIL, One month 90 eta I Six months.....s 5.00 fhree months.... $2.50 1 Twelvemonths.. 10.00 THE WEEKLY GLOBE. An eight pag9 paper published every Thurs isyeentpoot paid at 5? 1.15 per "year.^Thw* months on trial for 25 cents. r*~oo ST. PAUL, SUNDAY, DEC. 10. 1882. , UttSCHlfllOK ■ H.*l it.-. . H Seven issues ; per week, delivered by carrier, mail or upplied by newsdealers— DOLLAE PiEB MONTH. Six- issues per week (omitting Sunday) by mail, as follows: One month, 90 cents; three mocths, $2.50; ■ix months, $5; twelve months, $10. Postage Is prepaid on all papers sent by mail. The Globe on the Trains. The Globe has always been supplied to the news men on the trains, but at the previous size encountered difficulties which do net now need to bo recounted. At the present size it ought to ba found everywhere. Parties who cannot in tho f stare obtain it on the trains or of news dealers vill c< nfor a favor by reporting the mat tor totals office with particulars. Tez death of Sir Hugh Allan, of Mont real, while on a visit to hi? old home in Edinburgh, Scotland, yesterday, will be a fearful surprise to many throughout the country. Sir Hugh was the richest man in the- Dominion of Canada, being the owner of the famous Allan line of ocean steam ships, the promoter and a large stock holder in most of the railroads, iucluding the Canadian Pacific, and was also largely interested with Messrs. George Stephens and R. B. Angus in the St. Paul & Manito ba road. He was well known to many of our citizens as a genial, enterprising, lib eral business man and a jovial'companion. He was the first Canadian to receive the order of knighthood from the queen. The reader wiil be highly mixed by the time he has read the conflicting reports telegraphed from New York relative to the settlement of the railroad war. The situa tion is sufficiently conflicting to enable a man to fake both sides of the stock market and lose both ways. The surprising strength of Omaha stock yesterday after noon shows that Wall street thought the cruel war was over, but this will not be the first time that Wall street has been caught napping. If the evening gossip of the Windsor house can be relied upon, no agreement has been reached and there is no immediate prospect of any. The Gloee gives both sides without making any extra charge for its issue. 1 'EXSI OX VXA. I DS. The pension business and the pension pay roll are getting to be something enor mous. Sines the government commenced to pay pensions on account of the civil war, there have been drawn from the na tional treasury to pay pensions $535,407, --092. There are nearly half a million pen sioners on the pay roll. Last year 27,664 new names were added, and these new pen sioners received $26,421,669. In the pen sion bureau there are now pending 290,966 applications for pensions and arrears of pensions. The pension bureau asks congress at its present session to appropriate §100,000,000 for pension purposes. Honest and proper pensions should be granted and paid. But when we consider that the pension bureau issnrroiinded, besieged and beleaguered by pension rings, claim agents and jobbers, and that congress is overwhelmingly lob bied in the same direction, it requires no stretch of credulity to believe that millions are fraudenily filched from the treasury, on various false pretenses. This enor mous graep at the treasury through fraud should be stopped. iiOli'S LOVE. The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, say ing. Sea, I have lured thee with an everlasting love. Jeremiah xxxi, 3. God is love. John xiv, 8. These questions are often asked: I* there be a Ruler of this world, why does he permit so much of sin and misery? If there be a beneficent, omnipotent God, why doe 3he allow all the wrong and in justice, all the tears and anguish? Why do the good suffer and the innocent be cal umniated I Why do little children cry for bread, and the aged perish of want? The heavens are deaf to all cries for enlighten ment. The sunshine and the rain fall alike on the just and the unjust, and the bounty and beauty of nature are free to all. God's word alone answers these questions, and from it each one must learn for himself. It assures men that notwithstanding all the wrong and woe there is a God of love, and that out of the chaos he will bring jus tice and right. God says, "It shall be well with the righteous; it shall not be well with the wicked." All professing Christians be lieve that "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son to die," but they have very limited ideas of the mean ing of that love. They hare a sentimental reverence and fear of God, but that h» should enter into their daily lives, walk and talk with them as one friend does with another few have any conception. God loves mankind as their creator. They are the work of his hand. When in the beginning God made man in bis owm image and pronounced his work good, down to these later days he loves and cares for them as their creator and preserver. But it is in the character of redeemer and friend he shows his wondrous love. To ransom man from the power of sin and death, when "there was no eye to pity and no created arm to save," he sent his only son and by his death made it possible for him '-to be just and yet to justify those" who come to him through Christ. God offers to every human soul these terms: Forgiveness of sin, redemption from its degradation, and glory and immortality by faith in God through Jesus Christ He says to every one, "Come unto me through Christ," trust in me and I will save you, I will be your friend. Having God for a friend means some thing more than believing in a spiritual presence beyond the clouds, to be addressed at stated times, and in the dark hours of life. This God, whose name is love, 'is a being entirely different from the jealous, terrible, vindictive Being the pulpit often represents, "who looketh upon the inhabi tants of the earth as grasshop pers," and who condemns little chil dren to death for the sins of the parents, and who has appointed the heathen to eternal perdition when, they "have never heard whether there was a Christ or no." It means to have for a friend the holy, supreme, omnipotent God, and at the same time the gentlest, truest, tenderest, most sympathizing friend a man can have. It is to have this friend at all times, in days of joy, to rejoice with him: in moments of despair, to give hope; in grief, to com fort; in loneliness, to cheer; in sick ness and death, to sustain. Beside, this friend will never fail. There was never an instance where God went back on any one who trusted in him. Ask the earnest, hum ble Christian if God has kept his promise to him, and he will ac knowledge that there has been no failure thus far on his part. Only believe in God and ask him for help. Nut as little child ren say their prayers morning, noon and night, but whenever he feels the need of help. In hours of temptation and trial, when besetting sins clamor for indulgence, when the quick temper, the hot passions strive f®r the mastery, then turn to this friend. "He knoweth our frame, He re membereth our infirmities." Can any in fidel deny the worth of such a friend? "Able to save unto the uttermost," ready and willing, always at hand, and unchange able. Man may construct theories about God and call them Bible doctrines, but thus saith God "I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth." "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him." It is the remembrance of this love that keeps his followers from sin, not the dread of divine wrath and punishment, but the fear of grieving and displeasing such a friend. "His love constraineth us," said Paul. It is impossible for anyone to love God who keeps on sinning. Will a man cheat and lie ;iud be impure and vile if he bo a friend of God? John wrote "Whoso ever doeth not righteousness is not of God." This friend i~ for eternity. Time will end, and all sin and its attendant woes ■will be destroyed, but through eternal ages the sweet companionship and love of God will surround his children. "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." FATAL IMITATIOXOF WILLIAMTELL. The appetite for the sensational at the present day seems to be morbid, and in attempting to gratify this appetite, the horrible often takes the place of the sen sational. What more terrible than the foolhardy attempt of an actor, whose ex ploit has already been put on record in the Globb, to shoot an apple on the head of an actress in a Cincinnati theater a short time since, resulting in the tragic death of the actress, on the stage, the bul let crashing through the brain of the unfor tunate woman, instead of the apple, caus ing instant death. This occurred in the presence of an audience of over 2,000. It is strange that actors should re sort to such criminal folly, or that an intelligent, civilized audience would countenance or tolerate it. Many a tender sensibility is shocked at the recital of a Spanish bull fight, and yet a person of such sensibility can be "enter tained" by the hazardous attempt to shoot an apple on . the head of a woman. Far better would it be to go to a bull fight, than to a human slaughter like that. The audience, as well it might be, was horrified when the woman fell dead on the stage. They had got more than was advertised in the bills, and yet. no more than might have been anticipat ed from the advertised pro gramma. An attempted exhibition of skill that puts human life in peril, whether it be shooting apples from living heads, tight rope walkers, or. high trapeze per formances, ought to be abolished not only as barbarous but as highly criminal. This event is every way monstrous and terrible. The actor's unintended victim, it is said, was soon to become his wife, and it is no wonder that the tragic event intensified his horror and anguish. As long as people will fools on the horrible, so long criminal facts will be found to gratify them. This awful tragedy ought to cause hazardous performances of every name and degree to go into positive dis use. __^_ PERSONAL.. Hon. W. H. Kelly, Owatonna, is at th Merchants. Hon. J. C. Waite, St. Cloud, senator-elect from Steams county, is at the Merchants. Hon. A. G. Vreeland, a practical drug gist of Salamanca, N. V., ex-senator of his district in the New York legislature, is in the city, with headquarters at the Claren don, and it is very probable he will locate permanently either in St. Paul or Minne apolis. Fine Box Paper* And Stationery, at Hough's Gem Book Store, 307 Wabashaw street. Charming: Sights. St. Paul has never put on such a gala appear ance for the holidays as during the present - season. Every store seems to be vicing with the other in the taste and elegance of its displays, but of them all none is so fascinating, taken all in all, as the 99 Gent Store on Bridge square. It is well worth a long journey to view the charming array arranged with so much beauty and taste. The 99 Cent Store has now its full stock of toys and fancy goods for the holidays, and it is certainly the largest and finest stock in St. Paul. The line of Bisque figures surpasses anything ever shown in the West. It will pay you to look, especially at their fine line of ladies' and gent's dressing . and toilet cases in all the latest designs of plush and leather, and the dolls are a sight worth seeing. Also the cups and sau cers, plate sets, oyster and oatmeal sets, tea and dinner sets, in all the designs of English and French china, and toys to suit every one. An elegant assortment of photograph and auto graph albums, scrap books, ladies' hand Jaage, papeterie, clocks, musical instruments, 'pocket books, lamps, brackets, etc. The ladies are particularly invited to come in early and make their selections and avoid the crowd later. They hane a large store-room, so that you can leave the goods selected and have them delivered when you like. The only place in the city that has the boys' coasting sleds with solid steel shoes, 7 West Third'street and 811 Wabashaw, St. Paul, 321 Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis. For a complete outfit of fine clothing, nobby overcoats, fine underwear, etc., at 66 cento on the dollar, go to the great closing out sale of $40,000 worth of men's clothing and furnishing goods. French Clocks. A superb collection at E. A. Brown's, No. 118 East Third street, also an endless variety of clocks of novel designs including the new plat a patterns. ; . ". ; THE ST. PAUL SUNDAY GLOBE, SUNDAY MOKNING, DECEMBER 10. 1882 JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE. Tit* Verdict in the Cane of Jim. Goodifftlev. Ulio Shot Her Husband at Little Sank Vilimge. [Sauk Centre Herald, Dec. 7.] Another horrible tragedy has been en acted in Todd county, which fairly, makes the blood run cold in I contemplating, re sulting in the violent death of a husband at the hands of his wife. The facts, a3 learned from a near neighbor, and one who had thoroughly investigated the affair, are these: Julius Goodwater, aged . about thirty-two or thirty-three years, five years ago married a very young wife, in lowa, and the two settled upon a farm about a mile . and a , half northwest of Little Sank.*.' / Their home \ has' not been a pleasant one, as he has been in the habit of beating his wife at the slight est provocation. He was a man, or rather brute, of violent temper, and terrorized the whole neighborhood. They had two children, aged two and four years respect ively. During the summer Goodwater be came very jealous of his wife, but wholly without provocation on her part, as his neighbors say he very well knew, she having been subjected to an insult of which she was altogether blameless; but he has pursued a course of grievous per secution ever since, endeavoring to force her to acknowledge criminality of which she was innocent. He purchased a revol ver at that time, as he told her she might need it in case of another insult, and this weapon was kept at hand in the living room of the family. Last Thursday night a horse belonging to him was sick. He remained up all night to care for it, and compelled her to sit up with him. During the entire night he kept up a system o! abuse and threats that drove the woman to desperation. He threatened to kill her, and taking a drawing knife said he would split her head with it, and that the morn ing would find a corpse in the house Little did he know how this prediction would be verified. About 6 o'clock in the morning he went out after some wood, and while he was out his wife got possession of the revolver which she concealed in her pocket, and none too early. Upon his return he Went for it, but not finding it he evidently thought it had been mislaid. Just at this time the children, who had been sleeping upstairs, awoke, and he brought them down. After filling the stove he grasped a heavy stick of wood and raised it in a threatening manner, declaring that he would not only beat out her brains but the children's also. Fearing he was about to carry the threat into execution, she drew the revolver and fired one shot. The bullet, 32-caliber, entered his head on the loft side, and ranging upward, passed out on the op posite side, just over the ear. He fell to the floor and she stepped over his prostrate body, seized her two children, and started for the house of her nearest neighbor, Mr. W. F. DeLaitre, about half a mile distant. She carried them both with her, and arriv ing there, told him what had occurred. He immediately went to the house and found Goodwater lying where he fell, still breath ing but unconscious. He never rallied, and died about 10 o'clock. A coroner's inquest was held, and Mrs. Goodwater told her story as given above. She was bound over in the sum of $500, for examination the 13th of December. She had an uncle in the woods who came down on the evening of that day and took the family in charge, and on Monday they were in town. She is a slight built person, only twenty-one years old, and has always been esteemed as a mild-mannered woman, and those who know her best claim that nothing but desperation and fear for the life of her children could have induced her to commit the terrible deed. lSoyiHg a Railroad. Cincinnati, Dec. Bidders for the Marietta railway were Bacon, Humbleton &Garrett; also that fifteen statutory modi fications were given by holders of claims to save their legal rights. Notice was also filed by persons in Marietta interested in the abandoned line. Japanese Goods > For Decorating, at Hough's Gem Book Store, 307 Wabashaw street. Drop in at Allen's drag store and take a look before purchasing your Christmas presents. ■ _^_ Fine Gift and Birthday Books. Emerson, Longfellow, Havergals, Shakes peare, Marcus, Ward's and Cupid's calendar for 1882, at Hough's Gem Book store, 307 Waba shaw street. The Great Goethe. The great Goethe has said that all blending of heart with heart brings but pain to us from the start. But the blending of the roots, barks' seeds and other ingredients in Allen's Iron Tonic Bitters is so admirably scientific that the "sum mum bodum" of all tonics has been reached and it stands confessed to-day without a rival in its special field. For sale by J. P. Allen, druggist and manufacturing pharmacist, St. Paul, Minn. Don't Tall To drop in and see John Pfistor and his magni ficent stock of jewelry, silverware, etc., while looking for Christmas presents this week at No 215 East Seventh street. Ladies' Hand Bags And Portemonais, at Hough's Gem Book Store, 307 Wabashaw street. It is a pleasure to visit Brown's attractive jewelry store, No. 113 East Third street, and ex amine the many choice bits of art he exhibits. A finer collection of really rare things for the holiday trad* has never been shown in this city. Christmas Cards,- Birthday cards, Dinner cards, "Will Receive" cards, at Hough's Gem Book store, 807 Waba shaw street. The fancy goods department of Allan's drug ■tore is well stocked. Take a look at it before purchasing your Christmas presents: ■>. V j"". .'' Magnificent. Brasses in all the popular articles, and of the choicest possible patterns, are displayed by E. A. Brown, No. 118 East Third afreet. Yon can find no more satisfactory Christmas present than something in this line of favorite goods, so much used in house decoration at present. . A Joy Forever. What more delightful and appropriate Christmas present than a set of Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, Thackeray, George Eli ott, Buiwer and many others too numerous to mention, all of which will be sold at very low prices. At Davenport's. Yon will get left if you do not take a look at the fancy goods in Allen's drug store, before purchasing your Christmas presents. Opera Glasses, Gold pens and watch chains at Hough's Gem Book store, 807 Wabashaw street. We have about 250 pairs of white and colored blankets, bought at an Eastern bankrupt sale, and must be sold; and if you wish to see the blankets and know the reason, call at H. Habig horst & Son, 238, 235, and 237 East Seventh street. ' Those toilet sets, vases, dressing cases, etc. at Allen's drug store are elegant. Look at 'em. * For a complete outfit of fine clothing, nobby overcoats, fine underwear, etc., at 66 cents on the dollar, go to the great closing out sale of $40,000 worth of men's clothing and furnishing goods. Office and Pocket Diaries Fer 1883, Hough's Gem Book Store, 307 Waba shaw street. STILL CONFERS!}. The Mortlnvestern Magnates Accom plish Nothing at Yesterday's Meeting. ADJOURNMENT TILL 3:30 MONDAY. The Insiders Say They Are Still at Sea as to Results. OUTSIDERS SAY IT'S SETTLED. The Probabilities Decidedly in Favor of an Irrepressible Conflict. PORTER FOR TERRITORY RIGHTS. The St. Paul Folks Insist on Their Right to; Build Where They Please. The Vonferenee. [Special Telegram to the Globe.] New Yoek, Dec. —At the conference of railway magnates to-day the position of none of the roads was changed. President Porter and President Riddle were firm in their determination to make territorial rights the basis of a settlement. The St. Paul representatives were not inclined to admit that the Omaha and Rock Island pos sessed rights in this respect that were not common, and they protested that they had not invaded territory upon which they were not entitled to enter. Mr. Keep, who presided at the meeting, presented no claims on the part of his road, the Northwestern. Acting in his capacity aa peacemaker, he made his position as neutral as possible. Both he and Hr. Hughitt declared that the thing they most desired was peace, the natural consequence of which would be a restora tion of rates and amicable relations. The discussion was said by those who at tended it to be harmonious in all respects. The question of arbitration was not touched,and there appeared to be a general inclination on the part of the representa tives ;of the roads to settle the problems themselves. The capacity of the Northwest to furnish business for the railroads was considered, and Mr. Porter and Mr. Riddle pointed out what they believed to be the inadequacies of the country to supply so many lines. The arguments of the St. Paul representa tives were to the effect that where they thought it to the interest and profit of their system to extend, they were bound to do it. The question of a division of business in a general pooling plan was not reached. No proposition was made. Conversations with the representatives of the roads after the meeting showed that they were disinclined to concede anything. Mr. Keep was hopeful of an adjustment. Mr. Porter and Air. Riddle were fixed in their determination. Mr. Mitchell was asked if he would yield to Mr. Porter's de mand for an establishment of territorial rights, and he replied rather tartly: "A rail road has a right to build where it pleases, I should think." President Porter hardly looked for definite results. New Yoek, Dec. 9.—The conference be tween the presidents and managers of Northwestern roads was resumed this morning at the Windsor hotel. After a session of nearly two hours all matters iii dispute were referred to a committee of one representative of each road, and the meeting adjourned until 3:30 p. m. Mon day. The committee consists of Messrs. Porter, Hughitt, Merrill and Cable. Mr. Milbank says it is very improbable that the committee appointed will accom plish anything, as the Omaha railroad re newed the request that a portion of the Chippewa road be leased to the OmahfTby the St. Paul railroad. The committee is in structed to thoroughly examine all matters in dispute and report to the full commit tee Monday afternoon.} The members of the conference general ly refused to disclose the proceedings of the meeting, but it was learned that the questions at issue were informally dis cussed. The first question submitted was that of territorial rights. After consider able discHssion this subject and all other questions at issue were submitted to re port if possible some plan of settlement. The Commercial says "The railway men met at the Windsor again. They sailed at one another and they adjourned without accomplishing anything outside of decid ing to meet at 3:30 Monday. The busi ness will be settled then if at all. It will be observed that Monday's meeting is called after stock exchange holds, while previous meetings have all been held while the stock exchange was open. It is therefore reasonably safe to assume that all the interested persons have been enabled by this time to purchase all the stock needed. Hence the declaration that on Monday the war will be settled." The snb-committee is in sessionat a late hour this morning arranging some plan to present at Monday's conference. The Commercial has the following: "Al though the impression was arduously giv en out that the railroad business would not be settled till Monday afternoon, the in formation has leaked out that everything was settled to-day. The appointment of a committee of four was but a little game of bluff. Th* Omaha could not hare advanced so rapidly%rithout some positive knowl edge coming out. It is understood that as soon as to-day's meeting adjourned the committee of four met and agreed to re port to Monday's conference that rates be restored in the Northwest at once; that all traffic be pooled to all competitive points for one year; that all building be suspend ed, following the example already set by the Omaha & Northwestern railways, and the immediate arbitration of all territory. Furthermore, on good authority, it is said the St. Paul people remonstrated at first against the suspension of building clause, but eventually oame around. THE LATEBT SPECULATIONS. It is stated to-night that the sub-commit tee failed to agree upon a plan for the termination of war, and will so report to the full committee on Monday, when the whole question will be submitted to arbi tration. The Ttmes this morning says the com mittee held two meetings in the afternoon and from all accounts the theme was the same as in the conference. It was under stood that St. Paul contemplated extend ing the eastern arm of the Chippewa Val ley up from Eau Claire through the very heart of the territory claimed by the Oma ha company. No pledge could be secured from the St. Paul representatives not to make the extension and the Chippewa Val ley proved the principal subject of discus sion all day. President Porter was as resolute when the meetings were over as before, and re peated that territorial rights could alone be the basis of settlement. Vice President Hughitt said at 10 o'clock last night that there were no new phases in the matter and that the general situation was unchanged. Thejre were the ordinary speculators at the Windsor last night, and nearly every one had a different story about the war. One had it that the settlement had been reached, and another that the break was as wide as ever. On account of conflicting reports, the difficulty came to be known as the northwestern conundrum. President Mitchell, of the St. Paul road, said "the St. Paul did not build where it was not needed. It would continue to build where it thought its interests lay and President Porter's demand for territorial rights by mapping out a country where he alone should occupy would form no part of a settlement. President Mitchell desired that the rela tions of his own and other lines should be of the most friendly nature, but he could not consent to be confined to specified limits which he must not overstep. The Chippewa Valley was built for a purpose, and it could not be surrendered. The St. Paul would control its own property. That must be understood. Julius Wadsworth, vice president of the St. Paul road,said{thatPorter's demands for the establishment of territorial rights would be disregarded in the settlement. The St. Paul road would not put itself on record as binding itself not to build above Eau Claire. The settlement must be made in another way. While the Chippewa Val ley line could not be given up the St. Paul would be glad to do business for the Omaha under traffic agreement. Territorial lihjht.s. [Special Teleeram to the Globe. I Chicago, Dec. 9.—The Railroad Gazette, In discussing the territorial question as between the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and the Omaha line, concludes as fol lows: "We fully believe that the greatest econ omy in railroad construction and opera tion can be effected only by the exclusive occupation of r. given territory by a single system, and by the close co-operation of adjacent systems, and by a certain degree of co-operation of all the systems of a coantry.so that each line and part of a line may do that, and only that, which it can do best and cheapest. To be completely effective, the railroads must be worked as one system, and we have little doubt but that, by successive steps, little by little, going backwards at times, but on the whole advancing, we shall approach the ideal, and, if there shall be no radical leg islation compelling great charges at once, that while approaching thi3 ideal of the maximum of effectiveness and economy we shall preserve many of the benefits of the individuality of separate lines and of com petition. But we shall not reach this stage of a division of territory among sys tems this year or next, or all at once, nor without previous modifications of existing systems, and probably with accompanying legal restrictions and regulations. The system now proposed is the French system, minus the regulations which protect the community. There the country is parceled out among six great companies, and one might not invade the territory of another. But the companies with these great privi leges were by no means left to do as they pleased with them. Besides the lines which were sure to prove profitable and which they wanted to build they were required to build in the aggre gate thousands of miles of road which they did not want to build, and which would not pay, and in great part do not pay yet. Moreover the construction of their roads and rolling stock and the accommodations which they offer must conform strictly to requirements established by the govern ment and enforced by government officers of the highest training and skill and devo tion to their duties, and they cannot make any rate for transportation without first submitting it to a cabinet minister and receiving his approval. None of the Northwestern railroad com panies wish to adopt the territorial divis ion of the French system in their own in terest. They must expect to have other leading features of that system forced upon them in the public interest. In France the railroads are regulated by an authority almost as thoroughly informed concerning railroad business as the man agers of the railroad companies them selves, and very unlikely to do the com panies injustice. In this country, if there is regulation, it is quite likely to be through demagogues, and almost certain to be by insufficiently informed men, who, with the best intentions, sometimes do grave injustice. But we need not argue the question. No one, much less the Northwestern railroad managers, need to have pointed out the dangers of the kind of state regulation they are likely to have, if they lead the people to think they need any. They will certainly get plenty of it if they attempt to limit the construction of railroads in the territory which they occupy. The Xiekel Plate. I Special Telegram to the Globe. ~\ Chicago, Dec. 9. —Rumors have been afloat in this city daring the past few days to the effect that the Nickel Plate has made arrangements for coming into the city temporarily over the track of the Lake Shore, and that the latter would provide it with facilities for handling freight ia this city until it could procure prominent freight houses. Nothing could be learned as to the truth or falsity of these reports. In order to come into the city over the Lake Shore tracks, the Nickel Plate would have to build about 300 feet of track to make the connection with the Lake Shore, and in doing this it would have to cross the Fort Wayne tracks. It is believed that this crossing cannot be made without overcom ing considerable opposition an the part of the Fort Wayne. Yet it is probable that the Fort Wayne will allow the crossing to be made upon the express understanding that the arrangement is to be but tempo rary, and that the crossing is to be aban doned as soon as the Nickel Plrte has suc ceeded in making a permanent arrange ment for an entrance into the city. That the Nickel Plate means to use the Lake Shore tracks until it can secure permanent terminal facilities by another line, is substantiated by the fact that the Nickel Plate officers have lately been trying to ■ecure the right of way over the Western Indiana tracks from the point where it strikes that road to the connection with the Lake Shore. By such an arrangement the building of a crossing over the Fort Wayne tracks at Grand Crossing would have been avoided. But, owing to the present dis organized condition of the Western Indi ana, the new owners not having yet taken full control, the application of the Nickel Plate could not be entertained, and conse quently the latter will have no other alter native except to cross the Fort Wayne tracks at Grand Cross ing. It is claimed that the Nickel Plate has xio desire to come in over the Lake Shore permanently. It is stated that it has not yet given up the idea of coming over the Illinois Central, as it is generally conceded that the Illinois Cent ral will afford it better facilities than any other line. What it seems to be trying to secure by making a temporary arrange ment with the Lake Shore is better terms from the Illinois Central. It claims that the rental of $250,000 per annum is exor bitant. The Illinois Central people, how ever, say that the price asked is very cheap for the facilities granted, including the land on which the Weldon shops are located, and that they have no idea of accepting a less amount/But even in the event of the Nickel Plate accepting the terms of the Illinois Central it will need temporary fa cilities by the Lake Shore, as it will take at least six months before the Weldon Bhops can be removed and new freight houses and yards be built at that point. TWO DUELS. ■ liemarkable Duels Fought in Xew Tork Years Ago. (United States Magazine.] A singular and fatal duel was fought some years ago in New York by the late Stephen Price, well known in England as a former lessee of Drury Lane theater. Ben jamin Price was considered the handsom est of his family, though his brother Stephen was not to be despised, either as regards good looks or abilities. Benja min one evening had escorted a very pretty woman to the Park tneater, when during the performance a British officer in an ad joining box took the liberty of staring her full in the face. She complained of it to Ben Pj-ice, who, on its repetition, seized the of fender by the nose with his "finger and thumb, and wrung it most effectually." The officer left his box and went to Ben Price's. Ben, in answer to a knock.opened the door, when the officer, whose name was Green, asked Ben what he meant, remark ing at the same time that he meant no iu sult to the lady. "Oh! very well," replied Ben; "neither did I intend to insult you by what I did." Upon this they shook hands as sworn brothers, and some time after Mr. Green went to Canada to join his regi ment. The fact of the affair had reached Canada, however, before Mr. Green, and of course got noised about. An officer of his regiment having a pique against him was particularly active in airing the scandal, and brought the matter so strongly before his brother of ficers that one of them, a Capt. Wilson, in sisted upon Green being ostracised unless he went back to Xew York immediately and challenged Price. Green, however, being no shot, was allowed to get up his pistol practice to a favorable standard,and having practiced five hours daily until he could hit a dollar at ten paces nine times out of ten, then he came to New York and challenged Ben Price. They fought at Hoboken, Price be ing killed at the first fire. The seconds immediately decamped, while Green, who had obtained leave to go to England on private affairs, took a small boat, crossed the river, and got on a vessel in the bay ready to sail for the old country. Price's body was found where he had fallen, with a piece of paper attached to the breast on which the following words were written: "This is Benjamin Price, boarding in Vesey street, New York; take care of him." The body was brought to this city quietly, and he was buried in New York." The death of Ben Price was, however, but one-half of the tragic transaction that resulted from the pulling of Mr. Green's nose. Some years later, Capt. Wilson who has already been referred, to arrived in New York from England on his way to Canada, and put up at the Washington ho tel. There one day at dinner the conversa tion turned on the death of Ben Price,and the manner thereof, when Capt. Wilson, who had joined in the conversation, took credit for having been mainly instrumen tal in bringing about the duel, detail ing all the particulars con nected therewith. This state ment was carried immediately to Stephen Price, who was lying ill of the gout at home. His friends said that he at once implicitly obeyed the instruction of his physician and obtaining thereby a cessa tion of the gout, was enabled to hobble out of doors, his lower extremeties being swathed in flannel. His first course was to seek the Washington hotel, where his inquiry was: "Is Capt. Wilson within ?" "He is," eaid the waiter. "Show me up to his room," said Stephen, and he was shown accordingly. Hobbling up stairs with difficulty, curs ing alternately as he went the gout which caused the pain and the captain who was the cause of his having to hobble with equal vehemence, he at last reached Capt. Wilson's room, his feet cased in moccasins and his hand grasping a stick. Cap. Wil son rose to receive him, wondering all the time who his lame visitor could be, but his mind on that point was soon relieved. "Are you Captain Wilsonn?" said the stranger. "That is my name," replied the captain. "Then, sir, my name is Stephen Price. You see, sir, I can scarcely put one foot before the other. lam afflicted with the gout. My object in coming here is to in sult you. Shall I have to knock you down, or will you consider what I have said suf ficient insult and act accordingly ?" "No, sir," replied the captain, smiling; "I shall consider what you have said quite sufficient, and shall act accordingly. You shall hear from me." In due time there came a message from Capt. Wilson to Stephen Price;time, place and weapons were arranged, and early one morning a boat left New York in which were seated face to face Stephen Price, the . captain and two friends. They all landed at Bedloe's Island, the principals took their positions, and Capt. Wilson fell dead at the first shot. The captain's body was interred in a vault there, and Price and the two seconds returned to New York. Capt. Wilson's friends in America thought ha had suddenly departed to Canada, and his friends in England thought that he had either died suddenly or had been killed in a duel en his way to join his regiment. Obituary. Dattoh, 0., Dec. 9.—Wm. F. Blakely, inventor of the turbine water wheel, died to-night. Chicago, Dec. 9. —Jones, the negro as saulted by Bill Allen, died to-night, being the last victim of that colored desperado. Cincinnati, Dec. 9.—Private dispatches report the death of Howard Alden, at Charlotteville, Va., to-day. He was a member of the firm of Edward Alden & Co.'s advertising agency, this city, and had gone in quest of health. %*"Neceßßity is the mother of invention." Diseases of the liver, kidney and bowels brought forth that sovereign remedy Kidney-Wort, which is nature's normal curative for all those dire complaints. In either liquid or dry form it is a perfect remedy for those terrible diseases that cause so many deaths. Police War. Tbot, N. V., Dec. 9.—The opposing police forces got into a row to-day and clubbed one another in the street and locked one another up. For a complete outfit of fine clothing, nobby overcoats, fine underwear, etc., at 66 cents on the dollar, go to the great closing out sale of $40,000 worth of men's clothing and furnishing goods. Buy your watches, diamonds and jewelry of Geist and be sure to get a good article. WASHINGTON. THE GOSSIPS OF THE DAT AMOXG THE COXGJtESSJIEX. The Tobacco Men Anxious for Action on the Tax Question—The 1 Distillers also Applying for an Extension of Time in which Bonded Goods May be Kemovec!— The Impositions of Political Assess ments—What the Committees are Doing. [Special Telegram to the Globe.] Washington, Dec. 9. —The senate at its session last year passed a bill to pay to Rear Admiral Worden, qf the United States navy, and the officers and crew of the United States steamer Monitor, their heirs and assigns, $200,000, the same to be con sidered as prize money for the destruction of the rebel steam frigate Merrimac. In the house to-day this bill was reached. It was apparent from the beginning that the bill was in a precarious condition, and the debate as it proceeded soon Qeveloped that it could not be passed.. The strongest point made against the bill was the re - peated statement that the Monitor did not, in fact, destroy the Merrimac, but that the latter vessel was blown up some miles away from the scene of the encounter with the Monitor by the Confederate officers, to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Federals. There were several speeches in favor of the bill, but only from the standpoint of excessive patriotism. Finally a motion was made to strike out the enacting clause, which prevailed by a vote of over three to one, thus, of course, defeating the bill. THE TOEACCO TAX. Petitions and telegrams continue to come from every tobacco section request ing congress, in whatever it may do as to the tobacco tax, to act promptly. Other wise the manufacturers will have to shut down, and thousands of worthy men will be in a condition of enforced idleness. As a rnle such reminders have but little effect unless they are kept up constantly, and the pressure is made so strong that it cannot be disregarded. There is no pros pect that the bill rej>orted from the ways and means committee to abolish the tax will come up for serious consideration in the house before the holiday recess. There is a prospect that both houses will adjourn on or about the 2i)rd instant, until the 3d or 4th of January, and that until after the reassembling the bill will not be acted up on. Under such a state of things debate will run at least a week, probably two weeks, and the bill, in whatever shape it gets out of the house, will not reach the senate until the closing days of the first month of the year. Meanwhile, until the session ends, it may be kicked and cuffed between the two houses,and not be ready for the president's signature until the first of March. After faithful inquiry in quarters worthy of the search, there is no reason to change the prediction heretofore made in these dispatches, that the bill as reported by the ways and means committee, will fail. There is another great danger to the manufacturing trade. It is this: There are a large class of members who will vote for a free leaf bill. These are so inconsistent as to say that they are willing to reduce the tax on tobacco 50 per cent., but only fn case an amendment is incorporated in such a bill which will allow a grower of tobacco to sell it wherever he pleases, without espionage. Of such an amendment no one but a tobacco manufacturer can calculate its demoralizing effect. THE WHISKY TAX. It is expected within a short time that representatives of the distilling interests will be here. This class will renew the ef fort of last winter to have the bonded peri od extended. It is almost certain now that the bill with the senate, which passed the house, extending the period indefinite ly has no ghost of a show of passage. At best the distillers will not be able to in duce the senate to go further than an ex tension of three years additional, and may be only two. Some relief will be neces sary, and this will afford it. Otherwise, there will be a crash in distilling circles. The bonded bill which passed the house is new in this shape with the senate: It was reported with an amendment on the 15th of May, by Mr. Bayard, from the finance committee. On the 15th of June, following, it was indefinitely postponed. This virtually killed the bill, but it got a status before the senate again on a motion entered by Senator Garland, to reconsider. If this motion prevails, a motion to send the bill back to the finance committee will give that committee the same jurisdiction over it that it had originally. Hem it can be amended, and again be brought before the senate without prejudice. The best course for those interested&will be to ask for a limited extension, ™nd if there is any kind of unity it will no doubt be grant ed. Any legislation looking to a reduction of the tax on spirits will come up for consid eration and action in a separate bilL A BIVEE AND HABBOB BILL. The disposition of the house committee on commerce is to act upon its own judg ment as to whether or not to report a river and harbor bill. The president, it will be recalled, in his message threw a wet blanket on every bill for the next fiscal year, and the secretary of war, in his an nual report, was bold enough to say that money had been appropriated in last year's bill not in the interest of oommerce. To test this latter statement, and to put upon Secretary Lincoln the burden of proof, the commerce committee to-day him to report whether any of the appro priations in last year's bill were appropri priated for works or objects that are not in the interest of commerce or navigation, and if so, to name such works or objects and the respective amounts so appropri ated. Also to report whether any money has been expended on works which do not benefit commerce and navigation. This will give the young secretary a chance to formulate a bill of particulars. If he is worthy of the occasion and em braces his opportunity he has a chance to point out scores of items in last year's bill which ought to bring a blush even to the cheek of a hardened congressman. The senate very wisely recommitted to the finance committee the internal reve nue or tax bill, which occupied the atten tion during the heated term of July and August last. This was originally a bill reducing internal taxes only, but the Re publican senators, in order to make capi tal for the autumnal elections, by a cau cus decree, settled on certain changes, in it affecting sugar, steel, iron and other ar ticles. A contest naturally ensued over this partial and unjust revision of duties, and after a protracted struggle the bill finally got into such a shape that its own parents could not recognize it, and hardly