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«■«».* 1 Paw of th* City and Coonty. muted and Published Every Day in the Xeur. BT the Br. PAUL GLOBE FEINTING COMPANY No. 17 Wabashaw Street, St. Paul. THE DAILY GLOBE. BEYEN ISSUES PER WEEK, Daily and Sunday Globe; > o>i eoiiab pc ■I troth. BIX ISSUES PER WEEK—BY M&.IL, <*•<;« month 90 eta I Six months. .. .$ 5.00 Trtiae months $2.50 i Twelvemonths.. 10.00 TEE WEEKLY GLOBE. An eight page paper' pulAshed every Thurs day sent post paid at $1.15 pr year. Three months on trial for 25 cents. err. Paul, SUNDAY, jan. 21, ISB3. Windom is on the run.... Hejcan't catch the Senatorship on the fly. The '"friends of Windom" seem to be a good deal agitated about Mr. Sabin. Mr. Salmi's health is improving. The Globe had eminent Republican authority for the statements to which two senators took exception in the joint con vention. It is painful to have such emi nent authority differ. The insiders on the Windom campaign apoligi: c to the insulted office holders by telling them that the grand bounce was really intended to get red of brother-in-la Douglas. They can no longer endure his reraphic smile. One of the prominent "friends of Win dom" remarked yesterday, that Windom could not win back the votes that had left him. ';Why," said the Senator, ''every man who returns, will be open to the sus picion of having &old his vote." Moody and Sankey have found it profit able to cultivate the susceptible English people, and have arranged to begin on the ignorant in London next October. Their professional returns in this country some time since disappeared from sight. It is gratifying to note that the Berlin police promptly suppressed the circulation of an obscene pamphlet calculated to bring discredit upon the womanly virtues of the ex-Empress Eugenic. The mortal who would thus seek to malign a defenseless woman deserves a worse fate than hang ing- Washington is the largest patron of lot teries of any city in the country, and government clerks are the most conspicu ous buyers of tickets. The small mechan ics and army pensinoners are also afflcted with the lottery craze. At a recent draw ing an inmate of the Soldiers' home held a dozen tickets, and drew a dozen blanks. _^_______ Two more of the Ramsey county dele gation—Merriam and Gozian— loose from the defunct Windom carcass yester day. It can be set down as certain that they are not men to be bribed or cajoled into returuning to the waning fortunes of the defeated politician. It is shocking to think that Windom should abandon his public duty at Wash ington and come to St. Paul to look after his re-election. If he had been here early, he might have done some good, and it would not have been so bad, but to come now when the cause is hopeless shows such a lack of judgment as to make his abandon ment 0t Washington positively reprehen sible. The insult which "the friends of Win dom" have heaped upon the office holders, and the contempt displayed for them, will hardly aid the distinguished senator in his plans. He is coining nto buy with cash and promise cf office, as many legislative votes as possible. If it is such a contempt ible thing to be an oTice holder it is not a very desirable prize to offer for a vote. The office holders are still on deck. If Senators Pillsbury and J. B. Gilfillan had not heard of the John S. boom until they read it in the Globe they are a little Blow. Minneapolis had a big delegation down here on Wednesday last, when they thought they could save Windom. After the vote, which in reality settled the ques tion permanently so far as Windom is con cerned, the Minneapolis crowd boomed John S. in great shape. Probably every one took especial care not to say anything to Senators Pillsbnry and J. B. Gilfillan for fear of offending them. The royalist organs in Paris affect to re gard the reports of the organization of legions of their pnrty in the west of France as either gross exaggerations or pure fictions. The latter they are not, for there is abundant evidence that the revo lutionary party is well organized and tol erably well armed. It is natural, however, that the reports of the discovery of the conspiracy should be somewhat highly colored. Sufficient is known to indicate that France is in a state of great disquie tude, and to lead to tbe apprehension that the country may be plunged into the vortex of revolution at almost any moment. _____________ At the Jackson, Bth of January, banquet at Boston, Gov. Butler was understood to Bay, and was so reported, that Gen. Jack son was born in Ireland. The second hero of New Orleans was very forgetful, or a good way "off" in his facts. Gen. Jackson was born at Warsau, South Carolina, March 15,1767. His parents were Scotch- Irish, and settled in South Carolina in 1764. "Old Hickory" was proud of the fact that he was native and South Caro lina born. Of course, Gen. Butler, as well as the rest of mankind, are aware that had Jackson been born in Ireland, he could not have been president. The place of his birth, however, had no relation to his hero ship at New Orleans. The appropriation ■ made for pensions this year is twice the amount of the inter est on the public debt, and now congress, not satisfied with the fact that the pay ment will next year exceed one hundred million dollars, proposes to add $10,000, --©OO more to pay pensions to every man who served thirty days in the Mexican wrr, or any of the early Indian Ekirmishes. ' aake this payment 10,000.000 Ameri i_. workingmen must, give a day's labor eat :> year. or 1.000,000 must give ten day's' labor annually. It was thought a year : ro that congress had exhausted its capability for recklessness in makuig the present lavi h distribution of pensions, but t is shown that the congressional ca pacity for reckless use of the people's money was very much underestimated. *Q The Cleveland Leader, the most influen tial Republican paper in Ohio, ramarks: ; i Wheti a Pennsylvania man gets a big-office yon can't tell how he will act. Governor Pattison is frugal and plain to the last degree in official matters, while Attorney Browstcr is fearfully and wonderfully gorgeous. You can't tell, hardly ever, how blindly a thick and thin Republican party organ will act. Gov. Pattison is a man of the people, and, being jsa Democrat, for the people. Brewster is a gorgeous snob and a Republican. Pattison will give the peo ple of Pennsylvania a clean administration. The country lalready '[-understands that Brewster i 3 an unfit man for official sta tion, and it is openly said he is making money out of his management, or, more properly, "mismanagement of, the star route trials. QWhkh President field somewhat startled the country by including the name of Robert T. Lincoln among his Cabinet appointments, as a knot of Senators were discussing the matter, the question of Lin coln's continuation came up. Dan Yoor heea quickly said, "the Senator who votes against confirming the eon of Abraham Lincoln has no business here." Senator Beck approved the sentiment. Young Lincoln, if^he has done nothing remarka ble as a member of the Cabinet, is not amenable to criticism, from the fact that he has discharged his duties foirly,and has not been meddlesome. Mr. Dana, in the New York Sun, however, keeps up a fusi ladeiof carping comment upon the young secretary. Mr. Dana was, once upon a time, anxious to support Mr. Stanton as secretary of war. President Lincoln could not be induced to gratify Dana. This he took in dudgeon, and resigned as assistant secretaryjof war. At this day it is not in the best taste for Mr. Dana to pour out his vial of disappointed ambition upon the head of Abraham Lincoln's son. An effort is being made in congress to transfer the control of the weather bureau to the agricultural department, and many well-meaning farmers have been induced to sign petitions asking such a transfer. Such conduct would destroy whatever ben efit the service is to the country. The ag ricultural department is simply an asylum for decayed and superanuated politicians and of no practical yalue to the farming interests. The so-called reports issued by it are invariably from three to six months behind similar reports published by the newspapers, and not half as reliable. Probably in the course of a month it will furniih the public with estimates of the probable yield of the wheat crop which was harvested last July. If it is extraor dinarly enterprising, the department may give some intelligence of the acreage of corn planted last spring towards [the first of May. If given control of the weather bureau we would probably be refreshed somewhere near the 4th of July with intel ligence as to the temperature in the pre ceding December, and in August we would be warned of the approach of a blizzard from the north that had passed over the country in the middle of January. •If it is the desire of congress to destroy the meteorological reports entirely, it can do so by giving the agricultural department charge of the observations. % GAMBLING. There are a good many of our citizens who are probably as anxious to see the vice of gambling stamped out in St. Paul as is the zealous Minneapolis gentleman who recently made a raid on the lairs of the tiger here, but they are not fully satis fied that efforts that may be made in that direction will wholly cure the evil. Had the means been available and the law suffi cient, every gambling den in the city would have been suppressed long ago, and the keepers, dealers, steerers and cappers would have been driven from the city or compelled to seek some honest means of obtaining a livelihood. Perhaps the excuses that the police offi cials are not disposed to interfere with gambling, and that the laws are difficult to enforce by reason of the reluctance of persons to testify against the keepers and inmates of gambling houses, are peurile. In the opinion of the Globe the society for the suppression of vice was too easily discouraged by the failure of their attempt of two years ago, and might have succeed ed in driving the cormorants under cover if not out of business. There has been a woeful lack of persistency among the member? of the society that is not at all to their credit,'and has cost them the re spect of the community. The evil of gambling is one of the worst that afflicts our modern cities. Some insist that it is a necessary evil— v men will gamble in one way or another in tha hope of acquiring sadden wealth with little ef fort despite all legal prohibitions. But if a necessary eviJ. all agree that the influence ! of the gambling dens should be circum scribed as far as possible. There are scores of instances that can be called to recollec tion by any. of our citizens of young men who have been lured to ruin by the fascina tions of the card table. Holding respon sible business trusts and a respectable if not a high social standing, they have grad ually lest the confidence of their employ ers, the esteem of their associates, and have gone from bad to worse until some of them now occupy a felon's cell at Still water, while others are outcasts from their homes or fugitives from justice,their fam ilies left to live on the charity of friends or relatives, bearing through life the stigma which attaches to the wife and children of I a gambler. The wrecks that have : been made by the passion for gaming are seen on every side, and many of them are pitia ble to the extreme, and cause the heart to ache. The eradication of this giant evil has commended the earnest effort of some of the best minds of this and other countries.' That all have hitherto failed does not argue that all will fail. Means have proved effectual in controlling and mitigating the evils of gambling in other cities, and there is no reason why a per sistent and determined effort should not be made in this city to exterminate the vice entirely. It may prove successful, and certainly will drive away a large propor tion of the gamblers, who, finding their profits lessened if not entirely obliterated by frequent fines and their liberty en dangered by repeated convictions, will hie them to some more congenial clime. Men who have refutations to lose will not frequent gambling dens a? long as there is danger of a raid from the police, ami the ! professional sharks, driven to plundering ' each other, will soon weary of the amuse ment. T'hnt man v-Vin pw rloi-prminAf? in hf/.ird. ' TEE ST. PAUL SUNDAY GLOBE, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21, 1883 their money on games of chance will find tind opportunities to gratify their propensity does not admit of a doubt. They will gather at each others' rooms and homes where they will be safe from intrusion, but under such conditions they will powerless to injure any but themselves. It is the duty of our municipal authorities to protect the young and unwary from those who are lying in wait to decoy them into the path that in evitably leads to ruin and disgrace, by closing absolutely all gambling rooms and punishing with the utmost severity all who attempt to play the role of ropers-in for any game of chance whatever. The re clamation of a confirmed gambler may be well nigh an impossibility, but is possible to prevent the young from taking the first downward step, and this should be the first effort of the authorities, in which they will receive the hearty co operation and support of all good citizens. There will be no trouble once the gamblers understand tßat the authorities are in earn est. They will submit—will have to sub mit — as good grace as possible to the law or quit the country for the country's good. JUSTICE. Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, and the lawful captive delivered. —Isaiah xlix:24. The enemies of God are continually ar raigniag him before the bar of their own judgment and impeach him, in the name of the beings he has created, of injustice. Awful as is the idea, man, whose days are brief as the passing of a weaver's shuttle, accuses the everlasting God of unfairness. In the first place, is God under any obliga tions to the beings he has created? The Bible compares the Creator to a potter and mankind to the vessels he has made. "Behold as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand."' When Adam was placed in the garden of Eden, his Maker made him no promise; he gave him work to do, and required hie obedience under penalty of - returning to the dist from which he was taken. Was there any injustice in that? Can not one do what he will with his own? Or was there any injustice in his expulsion from Eden, or in the trouble and death that overtook him . after he sinned ? ' When a parent tells his son that if he is disobe dient ho will be punished, is it unfair for the father to keep his word Has the boy any cause for complaint? The main fact upon which infidels base their charge of injustice is that all man kind, although never consenting to Adam's trangression, yet, for that sin, are con demned to eternal misery. There is no such fact recorded in the Bible, and the Bible as God's word must take precedence as au thority in all such questions. There is not even a hint given of such a fact. The pen alty pronounced by God himself was "Dust thou art, to dust thou shalt return." St. Paul records the same truth, "As in Adam all die," and again, "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin. Natural \ death is the result of original sin. Inheriting from the first parents corruptible bodies, death and decay must follow. '. "It is appointed unto all men once to die." , There is no in justice in that. £By his, own act man placed himself under the power of death; he is a lawful captive. When in the fullness of time God pro vided a Savior, it was not to remedy any injustice. The only reason the scriptures give is "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son." When Christ left the glory he had with his Father, he came not to save men from death, but to make it possible to raise them from cor ruption to incorruption, from mortality to immortality. The terms he offered are reconciliation with God through faith in Jesus Christ. The good tidings are made plain in the scriptures and God has sealed his promise with au oath, "to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsil." Ho oilers no other terms. There is no Tray but through Christ. Now, whose fault is it if men reject Christ and are lost? Is God unjust because he will not pardon those who do not accept his terms? Every man is conscious that salvation is possible for him, and that if he is lost, it will not be because Adam ate the apple, but because he has sinned Voluntarily against great light and divine love. Another reason for charging the . Al mighty with injustice is the belief, held by many professing Christians that little children who die unconverted are eon damned to hell. Christ's own words to lit tle children are sufficient refutation of such a charge. "Suffer little children, and for bid them not, to come unto me for *f such is the Kingdom of Heaven." "Their angels do always behold the face of my Father." "Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." But about the heathen, are God's skirts clear of injustice in their case? -- - The Bible expressly states "where there is no law there is no transgression." "For Bin is rot imputed where there 13 no law." Infidels declare thai they disavow the or thodox God, because he permits so much sin and misery in the world; because he allows sinners to go unpunished, and the innocent to suffer. The end is not /: yet. There is never an unjust act, a wrong deed, never a sighjbnt "He that is higher than the highest regardeth.". The Bibl* warns men of a coming judgment, where all the wrongs shall be righted. "Judgment will I lay to the , line, and. righteous ness to the plummet." At that day the small and the great will stand before God, and the books will be opened." .No one will complain of injustice then. "Out of thine own month will I judge thee, thorn wicked servant." . Capr. Jacob Mainzer's union Gift. Capt. Jacob Mainzer has double cause for remembering the reunion of the Sec ond Minnesota Veteran volunteers at Armory hall Friday. Capt. Mainzer was one of the leading spirits in arranging for the reunion, and was especially prominent in assisting in making the visit of those from abroad pleasant to them, attending both the business session in the aftor ternoon and the reception at the residence of Gen. Bishop in the evening. Returning from the reception about mid night highly delighted with the pleasures of the day, Mrs. Mainzer filled his cup of joy to the brim by presenting him with another bond of affection in the shape of a bright and healthy girl baby. The advent of the little one was an hoar or so too late to be credited to the twenty-first anniver sary of the battle of Mill Springs, which the reunion commemorated, but it was so close the two events will always be ;asso ciated together. To make the connection complete, the association should at - its' next meeting elect the new. comer the "daughter of the regiment," and she should be christened illy. Lots and backs lor sale by. A. E. Clark, c'A Jackson gtrejt, Davidson's block. .. fl BONAPARTE BREAK. CONTINUED EXCITEMENTIX FRANCE OVEIt XAI'OLEOX'S MANIFESTO. The Royalist Sldo-Show Also Making Things Lively—Excltinc Scenes in the Chamber of Deputies—Startling Revela tions of an Informer in Dublin —An Or ganization for the Assassination of Otti cla s. FRANCE. Pabis, Jan. 20.—The cabinet council adopted the drafts of the bills against pretenders fo the throne, and modifying the press laws. Tho bills will be submit ted to the chamber to-day. Pabis, Jan. 20. —The legitimist scare continues. The Orleans family will hold a council to-day at the residence of d'Au male. Members of the party of the ex treme left of the deputies will insist upon the Orleans princes being deprived of their military commands. Tho royalist papers insist that tlie scare is a manoeuvre to procure the proscription of the princes. Pabis, Jan. 20.—The deputies, 407 to 1)4, voted urgency for the motion to strike the names of the Orleans princes from the army list. The ministry agreed to the urgency. This last clause caused an uproar in the chamber. Another bill was introduced modifying the press laws of 1879, for the punishment of outrages against the repub lic, and makes the offenders amenable to the tribunals. A vote of urgency was also adopted for these measures. The com mittee was not appointed on them; and on motions of Ballue and Floquet, they be appointed Tuesday. The Bonapartist members of the depu ties held a meeting to-day and adopted resolutions declaring Prince Jerome's action perfectly legal,) and protesting against his arrest and maintaining that an appeal to the people is the only means of securing the future of France. This even ing's Republican journals declare that re ported legitimatist plot is merely a draw ing room conspiracy le Temps and Le National especially attaching little importance to it. Le Temps urg<i that the chamber of deputies, after giving the recent incidents just that share of atten tion which they deserve, revert promptly to the discussion of more serious matters. The Bonapartist members of the cham ber of deputies have issued a protest against the arrest of Prince Napoleon, and demand an appeal to the people. Lyons, Jan. 20. —When the anarchists were sentenced their wives uttered despair ing shrieks, and tried to reach their hus bands. The soldiers intervened. The Princess Krapotkine left the court on the arm of Louise Michel, who subsequently delivered a brief lecture. Pabis, Jan. 20. —The ministerial bill dealing with pretenders, has been intro duced in the chamber of deputies. It au thonzeß the president of the republic, by decree given in council, to expel members of former reigning families, whose pres ence in France compromises the safety of the state,tho3e returning to be liable to five years in prison. The princes who now serve in the army are to be placed on the re tired list. GREAT BRITAIN. Dublik, Jan., 20. —Twenty-one persons recently arrested, here were before the police court to-day charged with con spiracy to murder officials. The court room was crowded. Great discrimination was exercised in the admission of citizens. A large crowd was outside during the progress of the hearing of the charges against the prisoners. Startling revela tions gere made. An informer swore that several of the prisoners, including Cardy, member of the municipality, were present at fenian meeting wherein the former was asked to join the inner circle formed for the assassination of official?. The name of the informer is Farrell. He acknowledged having taken part in the plct to assassinate a juror. He swore one of the prisoners named Hanlan informed him he had taken part in the attempt to murder Field: that Brady stabbed Field, and Kelly also participated in the affair. Farrell also testified that three pence was collected weekly from the fenians to pur chase arms; that the city had been marked into districts, and military inspections were held occasionally at which most of the accused wero present. At one of these meetings one John Devoy, who said he came from America, presided. The organ ization, he said, had existed for some years. Farrell said that picked men had formed an association committee. They were ig norant of each other. Daniel Curley gave him a revolver and told him to stop For ster's carriage opposite Ellis quay, when Jim Kelly and Joe Brady would do the re mainder. The plot failed through a mis take. Farrell identified Kelly, Brady, Curley, Maloney, Dwyer and Boyle, all of whom were present in the prisoners' dock, as having been pres ent on Ellis quay when the abortive at tempt was made to waylay Forster. Cur ley m= rerj mnch vexed at the failure. Farrell uud Bradj, Kelly and Rankin, the last of whom is now iv Limerick, followed Forster's carriage in n. cab on another oc casion, and that MacMahon, who was late ly accidentiy shot, was assisting by watch ing on foot. All the prisoners were re - mand«d for a week. Dublin, Jan. 20.—Miles Kavanagh, who is an informer, to-day swore that he drove the car in which Field's assailants escaped. He is now in custody. Immediately after the Phcenix park murders he was appre hended and detained two days on suspic ion of having driven the car on which the assassins of Lord Cavendish and Burke escaped. It is reported that six persons who were in dock to-day of/ered to become approv ers, but up to the present time the authorities accepted only one, who will be examined next hearing. It is said there are three other informers, named Poola, Devine and Dela nej, who are mentioned. The detective department is besieged with persons offer ing to give information. Several suspect ed persons left Dublin during the week. A detective is in pursuit of one important individual. The purchase of the revolver that Devine had when Detective Cox waß murdered will be proved; also the pur chase of knives found near the residence of one of the prisoners. Evidence will be giyen of the issuing of summons in the handwriting of Joseph Mullet for meetings of the "centres." The appeararance of three of the men arraigned Saturday exactly corresponds with the description of the three murderers of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke. The police intend making five more arrests. Mullet, the alleged leader of the assassination committee, is a hunch back. The crown is confident of success in the prosecution. Curley is one of the "centres." London, Jan. 20.—The strikers on the Caledonian railway have resolved to re sume work Monday. Dublis, Jan. 20. —Placards signed "America" posted in Clanmorc j, de nouncing that accursed, abominable jour nal, the Irish World. London, Jan. 20. —Alfred Monarch Kids, a tailor, Las failed. Liabilities The railroad strike: md begin to show disunion. A compromise is an ticipated. London, Jan. 20.—Rancin & Blackmore's iron foundry in Greenock, S'wtland, burn ed. Loss heavy. Germany; Beblin, Jan. —All liberal newspa pers express indignation at a conservative motion in the reichstag giving Christians the right to demand that the judge before whom they take an oath shall be a Chris tian, or that they shall be sworn by a Chris tian minister. A pamphlet attacking ex-Empress Eu genic, of France, confiscated by the police, is immoral. It purports to be a recital of incidents in the private life of, the ex empress. The Emperor William intends to ap point the prince of Wales chief of the Blucher hussars as a .memento of his visit here. SPAIN. Madeid, Jan. —The Spanish revenue for the second half of the past fiscal year has exceeded the expenditures by 0,500,000 piasters. It is estimated that next year the surplus will be 125,000,000 piasters. RUSSIA. St. Peteesbueg, Jan. —The emperor has given 4,000 roubles to jiid sufferers by the circus fire. SOUTH AMERICA. Lima, Jan. 20. —The congress at Caja maria to-day declared Iglesias president rejenerador. He took the oath of office on the condition that the Peruvians were for peace. The Chilian authorities have seized the furniture of Garcia Aurelico, Garcia Y. Garcia, also of the widow of Gov. Salaver ry for nonpayment of a war contribution of 2,000 soles. MISCELLANEOUS. Bbtjssels, Jan. 20. —King Leopold has completely recovered, and will attend with the queen the silver wedding of the Crown Prince Frederick William, of Germany. St. Petebsbubg, Jan. —Gen. Todel ben is ill, and it in feared he will die. London, Jan. —The Belgian steamer Wae6land, reported ashore at Flushing, has floated. ;?' % - Alexandeia, Jan. 20.—The men who murdered the two Englishmen here last June were hanged to-day. London, Jan. —The steamer Gellert from New York has arrived out. MISSING LINKS. Capture in New York of Eleven Boxes of Stock Books and Other Documents Need ed in the Fight Between the Western and Mutual Union* Telegraph Com panies—Papers Hid Away in a Public Warehouse. New Yobk, Jan. 20.— World this (Sunday) morning publishes the follow ing: Eleven large boxes containing books and papers belonging to the Mutual Union Telegraph company were discovered yes terday in an obscure auctioneer's shop in Jersey City. The motive for storing the books and papers in such a place would be an unfathomable mystery, were it not for the fact ' that At torney General Russell has just made ap plication for leave to begin action against the Mutual Union company to vacate its charter on the grounds that it had violated its provisions by an overissue of stock, and it is therefore reasonable to surmise that these books and papers con tain facts which certain directors of the Mutual Union company wish to conceal. The boxes, however, have been in Jersey City for three months, which shows that there was long ago a fear of some exposure. The story of the discov ery is a most interesting one. According to James M. Davis, justice of the peace, cer tain detectives in i»New Jersey have been for some time on the outlook for a large quantity of silk which was stolen. In their search they stumbled against certain mys terous boxes stored in the warehouse of Lewis T. Wood, Montgomery street. The detectives on making an examination,were surprised to find not silk but property clearly belonging to some telegraph com pany. The fact was immediately commu nicated to the officials of the Western Union Telegraph company. Mr. W. C. Humstone, of Gen. Eckert's office, was then detailed to investigate. The Western Union company, it is {said, has been sub ject to a number of petty thefts of late, and it was thought the property might be some stolen from the company. Mr. Humstone went immediately to Jer sey City and upon examination of one of the boxes discovered a large leather trunk within, containing a case of papers filed in an orderly manner. A slight examination of these showed that some, if not all, belonged to Mutual Union Telegraph company. Mr. Brown, general superintendent of the Mutual Union,was notified and with Hum stone went to Jersey City, where the trunk was opened and it is said Brown identified the papers as belonging to the Mutual Union company. Jebsey City, Jan. 20.—The city is over run to-night with reporters inquiring as to the mysterious contents of eleven large boxes supposed to contain the transfer books and stock certificates of the Mutual Union Telegraph company, but all infor mation was refused. It was learned, however, that a man giving the name of J. M. Hughes called at the auction rooms of Lewis F. Wood, 22 , Montgomery street, in the latter part of November with eleven large boxes which he wanted stored. The boxes were placed in the rear of part of the auction rooms, where they remained till this afternoon, • when the storage on them was paid and the boxes taken away by a car man. In the meantime the po lice learned that the officials of the Mutual Union Telegraph company were looking for the boxes, and Detective Kilculey visit ed Mr. Hermston of the Western Union company, who obtained a search warrant from Justice Davis. It was •'■ discovered '. that the boxes had been placed in the cellar of the ship chandlery store of Haines & Hallock, on Hudson street. : Two lawyers procured the key to ship chandlery store and seized the boxes. The warrant issued by Justice Davis recites the facts that the boxes and contents are the property of Mutual Union and were taken surreptitiously by em ployes or former . employes of the com pany. Jay Gould, as a director of the Mutual Union, directed the seizure of the boxes. The Late Alfred Tarenne. In noticing yesterday morning the sud den death of Alfred Varenne, it was stated he was a native of France. This was a mistake, he being a native of Sweden. His family on the male side, however, came from France, but many generations back. Mr. Varenne's father was a mac of wealth and refinement and his mother, the coun tess Sparre, the ftfaiilj occupying a high social position in Sweden. Mr. Varenne himself was highly educated.and at one time was secretary,to tha Swedish legation at the court of St. James. - So far a* known he had .but one relative in America, a nephew.chemist for a mining company in Pennsylvania at a salary of $3,000 per an num. ST. PAUL'S SUPREMACY. A Leading Wholesale House Shipping Goods to an Eastern City." . The wholesale drug house of Merell, Sahlgaard & Thwing, of 191 and 193 East Third street, was the recipient last week of a high compliment to their energy and commercial enterprise, being an order for a large bill of goods from Mr. Orrin P. Safford, a drug dealer doing business at the lively city of Flint, Michigan. The simple statement of the fact that a large consignment of goods had been shipped by one of the leading wholesale houses of St. Paul to an Eastern city, alone speaks volumes for the commercial prestige of St. Paul. It demonstrates that at least some of her merchants, while devel oping and extend ing their trade over the vast and fertile territory of the golden Northwest,still have a potent influence over the commerce of the East. No better compliment indeed, could be paid to the empire city of the great Northwest than that "Eastern mer chants should see fit to give Chicago and other marts of trade the go by and pur chase their supplies in St. Paul, where they can buy to advantage notwithstanding the extra, freights incurred. In the latter re spect, however, the firm alluded to have special carrying advantages with the freight lines out of St. Paul. In having the business tact and enterprise to see this advantage and profit by it. Mr. Safford is deserving of compliment, and at the same time an extra feather is added to the commercial cap 'of St. Paul. In encouraging this trade the firm of Merell, Sahlgaard & Thwing is entitled to all praise and their efforts should be rewarded accordingly. As another evidence of their foresight they engaged last week Prof. N. Lehnen,; an eminent chemist, formerly of Detroit and well known in the East. Mr. Lehnen will have charge of th« laboratory of the firm and he is a valuable acquisition RAMSEY COUNTY ROADS. A Proposition to Secure Legislation Which Will Improve Them. Members of the road and bridge com mittee and committee on legislation of the county of Ramsey, and the chairmen of the respective town supervisors of the county, and Messrs. Getty, Beany, Hoyt, Blake, Woodruff, Boyd, Brandt, and others interested in county affairs, respectfully memorialize the legislative delegation of Ramsey countp for such legislation and power and authority to issue bonds or levy taxes as will build, construct, complete and locate in a permanent manner the existing »roads of the county, and make other new roads as may be deemed advisable and proper, and they urge the same for the following reasons: The amount now appropriated annually is only sufficient to repair the holes and other defects that may arise, leaving the roads in a condition unworthy of the growth and increased population of the city and county, and being only a succes sion of sand-hills, ruts and gullies. No highways suitable for drives or pleas are, no avenues, leading to our beautiful lakes, exist. Permanent and commodious highways will open up an increased terri tory for settlement and occopation,will af ford facilities to the people for cheap homes easy and speedy of access and will pay for themselves in the enhanced value of the property improved and to be as sessed and increase the retail trade of St^. Paul by making suitable approaches thereto. Sent Over the Road. Yesterday Sheriff* Richter sent five pris oners, who were convicted at this term of the district court, over to Stillwater. One of these five was Wilson, who was sen tenced to two years and nine months. This fellow has proved one of the worst the sheriff . has had to deal with for a long time. He was ugly and revengeful, and perfectly untame able. Neither kindness nor severity ap peared to have any effect upon his obdur ate soul. He made several attempts to escape from jail, the last one being made about one week ago, when he was caught in the act of breaking a hole through the floor of his cell. After he had been started for Stillwater the attendants at the jail went into his cell and found that he had left there the unmistakable evidence of his revengeful disposition. The fellow had wantonly broken all the plaster ing off his cell and smashed up all the furniture in it. Not content with this, he tore his bedtick all into strips and scat tored the straw all over the floor, so that the interior of the cell had the appearance of a pig pen. He knew that he was to be sent to Stillwater yesterday, and did this a3 a matter of revenge on the sheriff. As there is another indictment against him Mr. Wilson may once again be in the cus tody of the sheriff. If he is, he will be very likely to meet with some more severe treatment than he received while here this time. The four other prisoners sent over were Henry Fish for two years and three months: Dashwood for two years and three months; Wilbur for three years and three months, and Ran dolph for two years and three months.' Illness of John Warm. The numerous friends of Mr. John Warm will be pained to learn of that gen tleman's serious indisposition. He was taken suddenly ill yesterday afternoon, and the symptoms at one time assumed dan gerous proportions.' The malady is of a complicated nature, and at times he was very flighty. Several friends were at his bedside last night and the best of medical skill was in attendance. Mr. Warm has a host of warm friends in St. Paul, and it ' is hoped that his illness will be only tem porary. s All members belonging to the Bricklayers' Union, of St. Paul No. 1, are requested to meet at their hall on Thursday evening, January 25, 1888, to transact special business. ■ President A. Lafayette. Vice-President— Butler. Financial and Corresponding Secretary— W. Miller. ' Recording Secretary—Louis Singer. - -. —Edward Powers. , Trustees— P. Mills, J. Sadler, J. Brown. - Ran on a Bank - Bath, Me., Jan. —A run on the Peo ple's Twenty-five Cent Savings bank canned it to stop payment in order to protect it self and its creditors. The run was light, and caused by the fear of some depositors that its deposit in the Pacific National of Boston had embarrassed : it. Bank Exam ■ iner Richards states the bank is solvent with a surplus, and no cause for alarm. Fifty-four Below. San Fbancisoo, Jan. —Urnnemncil dispatch: The weather along the line of Central Pacific railway in Nevada is in tensely cold.. At Elko yesterday the ther mometer indicated 54 below zero. Ponds and water holes are frozen solid. Cattle are dependent on them to quench thirst. L' Banqueting: Journalists. Chicago, Jan. 20.—The third annual banquet of the Chicago Press club given at the Grand Pacific hotel this evening was an elegant affair, largely attended by local and vi.-iting journalists, responses, to toasts being made and the banquet fol low e*Q. by dancing. \ WASHINGTON. HOW UNCLE. RUFUS CAPTURED THE YELLOWSTONE I'AJtK. The Much Wanted ex-Senator Spencer Sails for Europe—A Newspaper Editor Cap tures a Marshalship—>e\k- Nominations —Notes a.cl News. SUNDBY PETITIONS. [Special Telegram to the Globe.] --; Washington, Jan. 20.—Mr. Kasson pre sented in the house a petition from the^ residents of Clark and Warren counties, la., asking f,or a reduction of the duty on sugar; also a petition from certain citizens of Dcs Moines asking him to vote for the bill extending the bonded period on whis ky. Mr. Williams presented the petition of citizens of Wilmot, Wis., asking a re duction of the duty on sugar, and one from the citizens of Rock county, Wis.,, asking the removal of tho taxes on tobac co. The resolution of the Illinois State Bar association recommending the passage • of the senate bill establishing an interme diate court of appeals was presented to the house by the speaker to-day. a LUCKY mm i The president to-day appointed Mr. G. D. Perkins, the editor of the Sioux City Journal, as United States marshal, and Mr. M. D. O'Connell as United States at torney for the northern lowa judicial dis trict. eufus HATCH'S hostelby. Among the letters in regard to the Yel lowstone park lease sent in by! Secretary Teller, is one from Gen. J. S. Brisbin, of the army, which sets forth the character of the lease and its value in terms easily un derstood. It is as follows: Fobt Keogh, Mont., Sept. 25, 1882.J.. B. Belford, Denver, Col. My Dear Bel ford: Your letter of the 17 th inst. is re ceived. Since writing under date of Aug. 21, I have received a letter from the hon orable secretary of the interior, of which I will send a copy. While I am very thankful to him for his concession, it hardly covers what we asked for. My ap plication asked for the right to build a steamer to navigate the Yellowstone lake for the pleasure of j tourists and such ad ditional steamers . from time to time as might be required , to accommo date the traveling public. The grant is for one steamer alone, A syndicate composed of Mr. Hobart, of the Northern Pacific railway; H. T. Doug lass, of St. Paul; and some New Yorkers, notably Rufus Hatch, claim that they have cut under us and have secured the right to put on all the additional steamers for the next ten years, together with all sail boats. I am to be allowed to run one. steamboat. These fellows claim to have hogged the whole pork, with all rights, privileges and immunities, ordinary and extraordinary. They are to build hotels, put on stages and do all things. If you don't like the fare and 1 charges at one of the companies' hotels, you can go to another kept by the same fellows, and be charged the same and be given the same fare. This extraordinary 'grant does not come from our good friend Secretary Teller, but from the as sistant secretary, whoever he may be. We have a rule in the army that a command ' ing officer being temporarily absent from his command, an ! officer who succeeds him. in command shall not issue or grant favors,, etc., but shall confine himself to the dis . charge of merely routine duties. This would be a good rule to adopt in the . departments in Washington. This assistant secretary of the interior during the temporary absence of his su perior, Judge Teller, cakes advantage of his absence to sign away the park. It > won't stick. However, we do not care pro vided the right to navigate the Yellowstone i lake by us is respected. I will address a letter to those men, respectfully requesting [ that they concede this right to us, and if they do not accede to it we will upset the grant. I wrote to Judge Teller for a copy of the authority granted the syndicate by his assistant secretary, and on receipt of it 1 will send it to you with my re marks. Meanwhile, will you see the i secretary and advise with him. Ask j him to grant on my filing an absolute right to navigate the Yellowstone lake for a' term of years for the accommodation and pleasure of tourists. ' That is the application on ( file, in advance of all others, and that, no doubt, is what Judge Teller intended to grant mo. I cannot find language to ex press the importance of this matter. Next year 30,000 tourists will be in the park, and 100,000 annually thereafter. The nav igation of the Yellowstone lake for ten. years is worth $1,000,000 to the holders. Does that express it sufficiently? Do anything, do everything, judge, to secure" this right. lam very anxious, so write me again as soon as you have seen Judge Teller. Yours, truly, James S. Beisbin. AWAY FBOM STAB BOUTE TRIALS. The Toronto (Canada) Globe of this-, morning contains the following special from Halifax, Nova Scotia: Ex-United* States Senator George E. Spencer has been spending a few wseks in Canada, and sails to-morrow for Liverpool on the steamship Polynesian, of the Allan line. Tho sena tor, after remaining m Toronto nnd Cape Vincent with friends, arrived here last night and was seen by a correspondent,, who obtained - from him some important, information in connection with the cele brated star route trials now in progress at Washington. The senator is a portly and rather distinguished looking gentleman about forty-eight years of age, and has had an active career, both as a soldier and politiciaa, having served in the United . States array through the entire civil war,, and was colonel at one time of the First Alabama cavalry, United States volunteers. He retired at the close of the war breveted a major-general, and entered public life. He was twice elected United States senator from Alabama. , His present place of resi dence is Osceola, Nev., where he is extensively engaged •in mining pursuits? His position as a. witness in the star route trials is supposed to be a very important one, and, as there appears to be so many theories as to what the trials really are for. it was with much difficulty that the following statement was secured. Senator Spencer was the first to discuss the existence of the fraudulent con tracts known as the star route mail frauds, and communicated the fact-* in strict con fidence to the chief of the postoffice de partment, receiving that officer's word that under no circumstances would Senator Spencer's name be made public in connec tion with the trial. As a result of this information a.saving has been effected to the postoffice department by the cancel ing of million,- of dollars of bogus con tracts, so that now ths department has be come self-sustaining and 'the postal au thorities are considering ..1 reduction in postal rates from three cents to two cents. The senator pronounced the trials at Washington a fraud and a sham, and those in charge of them are only masquer ading before the American people, and that SO far there hnp been spent:sso,ooo o.