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4 f|-<2HBb£. Official Taper of tiie City and County. Prill:*} and Published Every Day in the Year, BY the BT. PAUL GLOBE PRINTING COMPANY No. 821 Wabashaw Street. St. Paul. THE DAILY GLOBE. SEVEN ISSUES PEII WEEK, Daily and Sunday Globe; one dollAi; pec mor.th. SIX ISSUES PEll WEEK—HY MAIL, One month 90 els I Six months $ 5.00 Three hi ... .$2.50 | months.. 10.00 THE WEEKLY GLOBE. An eight page paper published every Thurs day, sent post paid at $1.15 per year. Throe months on trial for 25 cents. ~ BT. PAUL, FRIDAY, MARCH 16. 1883. Telegbaphio and railway enterprises Beem to be helping Uncle Sam to getting on favorably with his Mexican neighbors. A direct line of telegraph from New York city to that republic has just been incor porated and is to be built immediately. It would seem that the old saw is being thoroughly verified over across the Atlan tic, "Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown," and besides that, uneasy lies the crowns of those heads which lie anywhere near these crowns. Henbi Rochefobt, the noted communist editor, has been threatened by his fellow socialists, and is now under police pro tection. When the socialists begin to quarrel among themselves and kill each other off there will be hope for honest people. Two years ago quite a number of gentle men of the Winona board of trade, in an excursion given by the Northwestern rail road, in striking Huron, Dakota, then a frontier town in the germ, invested large ly in tree claims, from the re-sales of which several have got back quite snug little dividends. Between young rowdy fools who load up with weapons and ammunition in the eastern states after a generous dime novel education, to come West and fight the Indians, and young gentlemen idiots in eastern colleges, who go out to appease their wounded honor on the dnelistic field, it is an open question as to which is en titled to the dunce block and cap. Russia wants an international detective force to circumvent the nihilists, anarch ists, fenians and socialists who are caus ing snch great trouble to the crowned heads of Europe just now. Some such force will be necessary, or else the kings and princes of the continent will be obliged to spend the -iine in bomb-proof apartments and wear nothing but bullet proff clothing. The London papers attribute all the atrocities committed in that country either to Americans or to the influence of the American press. The News charges the outrage of yesterday to the baneful teach ings of the incendiary press of the United States. It is probable, however, that it was committed by a person who never saw an American newspaper, and could not read it if he had it. The dynamite fiend has broken out in London, where the local government board dffices were yesterday blown into a million fragments. Fortunately no one was killed, but had the hour been later the loss of life would have been fearful. The outrage is attributed very generally to the Fenian 3. It will fare badly with the perpetrators if they are ever detected, of which there is fortunately a good prospect. If Brady speaks the truth, the entire gang of star route conspirators must be the most self-sacrificing and philanthropise citizens of this great republic. All they did, it seems?, was for the benefit of the public at large. They had no selfish or mercenary motives whatever. They were bent on improving the mail service of the west, and did not care whether they made any money out of the contracts or not. It is quite a pleasure to find that all men do not condemn, utterly, the Forty seventh congress. The city council of Worcester, Mass., at its last meeting passed unanimously, a vote of thanks to the Forty-seventh congress, for the abroga tion of the fishery clause of the treaty of Washington. These thanks, it may be feared, have the flavor of selfishness, but it is better to be thus thanked, than not to be thanked at all. Albion W. Touboes, author of "The Fool's Errand* and "Bricks Without Straw," pronouncas Donnelly's "Ragna rok" "one of the most powerful and sug gestive books of the age;" while the Church man, a leading organ of the Episcopal church of this country, speaks in high terms of it, and is more than half inclined to believe that a comet did strike the earth in the drift age, and that the Book of Job really contains a description of that great event. The Oxfords won the university boat race yesterday, much to the surprise of the majority of sporting men, who were back ing the Cambridge crew at long odd*. The event is regarded in England as sec ond only to the running of the Derby, and immense amounts of money are staked on the result. The Cambridge crew this year were thought to be in better form than their opponents, and were confidently ex pected to win the race. The result, there fore, is a great disappointment. The president has promoted A. W. Wy man, assistant treasurer of the United States, to the position of treasurer made vacant by the resignation of Mr. James Gilfillan. This is a deserved promotion, and will give general satisfaction except to the horde of hungry aspirants for the position. Mr. Wyman is . capable and trustworthy, and filled the office of treas urer ad interim for a short time after the retirement of John C. New and previous to the appointment of Mr. Gilfillan. . Connecticut is showing a progressive spirit. The judiciary committee of the legislature have advised the repeal of the ancient law that requires the arrest and line in the sum of $20, of "every proprie tor or driver of any vehicle not employed in carrying the United States nail, who shall allow any person to travel therein on Sunday, between sunrise and sunset.except from necessity and mercy." Should this law be repealed, it may be expected that the statute which forbids a man kissing his wife and children will be the next to go. In the course of time the people of Connecticut will doubtless become much as other people are. The new two-cent postage system is sug gestive of the adoption of a one-cent rate for city letters. As one cent is taken off the three-cent letter, it seems reasonable that tiia two-cent epistle, city delivery, -hould faro likewise. Next October letters will go for two*cents from St. Paul to San Francisco, and it seems a little bit dispro portionate that a St. Paul man should pay two cents for having his letter carried across the street in his own city. The adoption of the one-cent postal card and the one- cent rate for unsealed circulars largely augmented the postal revenue, and the one-cent city rate will likely have the same effect. At all events it should be adopted. The Hon. Wm. D.Kelley, popularly known as "pig-iron," says with emphasis, and all that that implies, that the suspicion that the new tariff law is not constitutional is "all pure bosh." Judge Kelley insists that in its protective aspects, in many respects it is an improvement on any tariff law this country has ever had. In the same breath he says: "It operates harshly and un justly on a few industries." He instances its operation on cotton-ties, the lower rate of duty for the material of steel wire rods than is imposed on iron wire rods, is a gross inconsistency, exposing cruicible and openhearth steel to fraudulent undervalu ation, and the absolute disaster to the nickel interests. The placing of quinine and cinchonidia on the free list, the great tariff tinker pronounces a gross violation of the principles of protection, and even an infraction of a tariff for revenue only. With all its faults, however, he stoutly af firms the law will prove a blessing to the country. Mr. Kelley is about a3 consistent as his unjust tariff law. WHAT WASHINGTON NEEDS. The malarious atmosphere at Washing ton ii beginning to tell on those not to the district born, quite early in the season, and although the president, heads of de partments and others of the higher officials of tha government are making prepara tions to emigrate therefrom, other.-, not so fortunate in position and means, have got to remain to do the detail business of the government, and dare the foul breath of the Potomac lowlands and the infectious diseases imported from all sections of the southern states by the restless wanderings of its negro population, to whom a pil grimage to the capital seems to be a thor ough necessity. Although Boss Sheperd made a terribly extravagant drain on the United States treasury, with an iron hand and with a really tyrannical rule, he broke the ancient city of Washington into fragments, and therefrom and from its wastes and sink holes laid out the spacious streets and ave nues of what is some time destined to be one of the most beautiful of the many beautiful cities on this continent. In some respects it was a great pity that* Alexander sank kiß palms so deeply and so often into the treasury and so soon began to pocket his large margins over the actual cost engen dered by the improvements he had inaugu rated. The results of his immense pecula tions, their discovery, and his departure into lehmaelite life to the mining districts of old and New Mexico, were that his sani tary plans ware not as fully consummated in respect to the national capital as had been his constructive and ornamental en gineering, and the Potomac flats were left undrained, to clothe the new Washington as they did the old with noxious and mias matio vapors, bearing sickniss, disease and death upon their wings. The country is tired of the reign and rule of rings, and of thefts from its treas ury, seeming to have no limit, and to per meate almost every department of its government, but it really does need a bold and energetic controller, engineer or ad venturer to attack the filth and malaria of its national capital, and make it possible as a place of residence to its presidents, heads of departments, foreign «mbassa dors, its great army of male and female clerks, and increasing citizenship froni January to December. Really the country would forgive a successful sanitary doctor of this description of even outlandish ckanges, providing his practice proved a BDOC6BS. A WASTEFUL ltKCOIil). The extent of the extravagance of the Forty-seventh congress is not fully appre ciated by the public, and can only be un derstood by comparison. The following table will show the total appropriations made by congress for the past thirteen years: Year raiding Appropriations. June 80, 1872 $1715,119,183 40 Jane 30, 1873 17:1,405,015 55 Juno 80, 1874 197,920,292 33 Juno 80, 1875 182,804,929 89 Juno 30,1876 179,166,209 90 i One 80, 187 154,553,639 62 June 80, 1878 144,492,149 23 June SO, 1879 174,743,606 29 Juno 30, 1880 192,188,000 26 June 30, 1881 189,356,251 40 June 3 , 1882 216,461,197 79 June 30, 1883 295,729,015 21 June 30. 1834 229,327,511 00 It will be seen by those figures that the appropriations made by the Forty-seventh congress at its two sessions amounted to the enormous sum of $525,056,520.21, and this does not include appropriations for the improvement of rivers and harbors for the year ending next June that ought to have been made. It is very evident that the people repudiated the members none too soon, for there is no telling to what an extent their depredations would have been carried if they had been given another lease of power. It is difficult to discover what the con gress recently adjourned has done to enti tle it to the national gratitude. A slight reduction of internal revenue taxation has been effected, it is true, and some portions of the tariff laws have been revised in the interest of the eastern man ufacturers. But the taxes remitted are upon the luxuries of life, not upon the ne cessities. The laboring people will ex perience no relief from its operations. The civil service reform bill is a measure pure ly experimental, and although it is now the law of the land neither the president nor the members of congress are paying any heed to its provisions. Though expressly forbidden to solicit office, congressmen are still haunting Washington and hounding the president for appointments for their friends. Thus before it has been tested the law is practically a dead letter. It is to be hoped that the Forty-eighth congress will take warning from the in famy of its predecessor and avoid its er rors and crimes. There is no legitimate call for the expenditure of such vast amounts as have been appropriated during THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE. FiiIDAY MOKNING. MARCH 16,1883. the past two years. The pension roll is I large and expensive, bat there ie good reason to believe and hope that it will commence to decrease from this time for ward. The interest on tho public debt is decreasing at the rate of a million dollars every year, and at the present rate of ex tinguishment it will cease to bo a burden within a very short time. We must have greater economy in expenditures in the future. Nearly a million dollars a day is too large an outlay for even so rich and prosperous a country as the United States. We cannot stand the pressure long, es pecially as the return for tho outlay is so insignificant. mi.li: HUE A. A Reasonably Successful Introduction to a St. l'uul Audience M'lle Rhea, the distinguished French actress, made her first appearance before a St. Paul audience at the Opera house last evening in the very Frenchy drama of Adrienne. Whether her selection was a good or poor one is immaterial. There are lovers of the French drama and others who detest it, but who, while detesting it, are willing to suffer the outrage of their feelings, if the deed is done in an artistic man ner. "Adrienae" is not a one act play. In fact it has several really good parts to those who think there ar.e any good parts in such a play, but still the acting really centers upon a single character—a woman who loves with her whole soul, and % who is driven to distraction by jealousy; who does her rival as great a service as it is possible for one woman to do another; who finally loses faith in her lover and abandons all hope for future happiness, and who finally dies in terrible misery by poison conveyed to her through her rival, just as she learns that her lover is faithful in thought, word and deed. Add to this a couple of male rakes in the persons of a prince and an able and faithful friend in the person of a theatrical prompter, and all the essentials for the presentation of Adrienne are pro vided for. The movement of the play in the first act is exceedingly tame, but from that on it steadily grows in interest, the situation in each succeeding act being more ex acting until in the last three acts it gives full scope to the highest dramatic powers. That M'lle Rhea was equal to all the re quirements of the part — she in fac,t more than met the critical expectations of her audience, was manifest by the most enthusiastic recalls at the ciose of each of the acts and the very hearty applause that followed her throughout. M'lle Rhea has a fine stage presence, and her costumes are both rich and becoming. She has a rich and well modulated voice, and her pronounced foreign accent adds rather than detracts from her enunciation. Her gestures are full of expression and her movements a model of grace and refine ment. She has most perfect control of her countenance, and the play of her fea tures in expression of the various emo tions which stir her heart is one of her greatest charms. Her support is unusually good, especially bo the Maurice De Saxe of Will iam Harris, the Michonet of C. A. McMan ns, the Prince Le Bullion of Lee Cooper, the Abbe De Chazzieul of J. B. Amor the Princess De Bullion of Miss Eugene Lin deman, and the Duchess Daumount of Mies Grace Hall. This evening M'lle Rhea will present "An Unequal Match," a favorite character with Mrs. Langtry. ltusine«s Troubles. Cincinnati, March —The wholesale firm of Pfirmann & Pfarr having failed to meet two drafts of $5,000 each, placed their affairs in the hands of Thos. G. Smith and A. S. Winslow, trustees, and ask an extension of time. Liabilities esti mated at $425,000, 60 per cent of which is secured by whisky stock. J. Pfarr, Jr., sold his interest in the firm March 7 to Mr. Pfirmann, who is the sole member of the firm. There is no apprehension that the liabilities will not be all met and business be continued. Mr. Pfirmann says no trustees have been appointed to take charge of his af fairs, though the persons named were sug gested by certain creditors. He will call a meeting of creditors on Saturday and will consent to the appointment of an ad visory committee, but prefers to hold the control of his business. He says he is amply able to pay every dollar, but wants time. The firm's surplus above its liabilities, he aajs is half a million, and personal estate $175, --000. He has been in business twenty-five years and was never before embarrassed. He could have avoided this by selling be low market, but had such implicit confi dence in the passage of the Sherman bill by the house that he refused to sacrifice bis goods. No step has been taken by any creditor to compel un assignment, the general feeling being that all claims are safe. Nbwoomhbstowm, 0., March —Eng- lish & Dixon, New Philadelphia, manu facturers of agricultural implements, as signed yesterday. Liabilities $21,000; assets $37,000. Philajdbjlpaia, March 15.—Adolph Kap pella, surviving and liquidating partner of the firm of Doughty & Kappella, ship builders, made an -assignment for the ben efit of his creditors. Kappella'a assets largely exceed his liabilities and there will be a surplus after paying tv» debts in full. Kappella had a contract for the dredge "Count De Lesaeps" attached by I. P. Mor ris & Co., who furnished tho machinery. Davbnpobt, March —The fact that a mortgage for $80,000 was given by the large lumber firm of Paige, Dixon & Co.» of this city, to S. H. Griggs, which was filed for record on Monday, and that its senior member, S. B. Paige, committed suicide on Sunday, has given rise to the report of the financial embarrassment of the firm. The local press contradicts the report. New Yobk, March 14.— report from Montreal says that Fogathy & Bros., wholesale boots and shoes, have suspended. Liabilities, $100,000. Surgical Operation. Hon. Ebenezer Ayers, of Cottage Grove, underwent a severe surgical operation at Chicago on Tuesday. It consisted of the removal of two cancers. One, on the left jaw, necessitated the removal of a part of the bone, and the other was situated on the clavicle of the shoulder on the same side. Mr. Ay era rallied from the operation, which lasted over two hours, and there are strong hopes that it will prove of more than temporary relief. The operation was performed by Geo. A. Hall, M. D., director of surgery in Hahnemann medical college, at the institute of surgery, 2131 Wabas h avenue. Fire This Morning. About 2 o'clock this morning an alarm was Bounded from the Fort and Western avenue box. Nos. 1 and 3 engines proceed ed a long distance out on Fort street, and concluding that the fire (evidently a feeble one from the light perceptible) was at Fort Snelling or beyond, then returned home disgusted with their tramp. The Mississippi river commission is at Ciaro, bat will do nothing there. DYNAiTMENDS. The London Government Board Build lii?.?I ii?.? Blown to Smithereens. TWO ATTEMPTS ON THE "TIMES." The Greatest Excitement Prevailing in the English Capital. THE WORK CHARGED TO FENIANS. Comments of the Press ami iv Part** ment—General Foreign Kews« GREAT BKRATN. London, March —A terrific gas ex plosion in the local government board offices at Westminster occurred at i)' o'clock to-night, destroying much property. The report was heard in the house of commons and caused alarm. The concussion was so great that it shook the side galleries and the reporters' gallery. It being dinner hoar but few members of the house were in the hall. The Duke of Edinburg was in the peers' gallery and seemed alarmed. The speaker rang his bell and asked the cause of the alarm. No one was injured. The wildest rumors are afloat. The report resembled the discharge of an eighty ton gun. Later—lt is now believed the explosion was caused by dynamite and was a delib erate attempt to blow up the government offices. The explosion was undoubtedly the work of Fenians. Adjacent streets were filled with myriads of fragments of glass and heavy plate glass lying in heaps on the groand. A stone weighing 200 pounds was projected against the King Street police station, making a hole the size of a man's head. Nothing will be touched until an in quiry is made. The full extent of the dam age cannot be estimated until daylight. Five hundred constables are guarding the scene. The building has the appear ance of hating been bombarded. There is a deep trench ten feet by three in one room floor, which has been literally ploughed. Two children sleeping in the house on the corner of King street were thrown from their beds by the force of the explosion, and their faces badly cut. They were taken to the police station. Every pane of glass in the vicinity is shattered. A man was arrested at midnight on suspi cion of being concerned in the explosion. The explosion being the subject of con sideration in the commons, Harcourt, the home secretary, said he did not think it right to say anything about the matter until official inquiry had been made. He had heard of an attempt made to blow up the Times office, but no injury was done. The explosion was heard at a dis tance of two or three miles. Yesterday evening a canister containing explosive material was found behind the Times office, wiih, it is rumored, a lighted fuse attached. The police are making an investigation. The officials think the explosion was caused by gunpowder or dynamite. The officers of the gits company declare, that they can find no evidences that it was caused by gas. The force of the explosion shot large portions of masonry across the street. Harcourt has had a conference with the chief of police, at which several witnesses were examined., The conclusion reached was that the explosion occurred inside the room and not outside the building. After the explosion the force of police at the house of parliament was doubled, and the government offices and the residences of ministers wfire strongly guarded. The Times attaches little importance to the explosion, which occured at its office. The canister contained only a small quan tity of powder. The Daily News says: It is of course obvious that the explosion was the result of premeditated design. We are con fronted with the fact that there are in London persons bold enough to act on the wildest counsels of O'Donovan Rossa. The News says: It is impossible not to connect the perpetration of this outrage with a certain phase of the Irish crime and assassin press of America. The Times says the Fenian answer to Gladstone's speech on the land act wag not delayed. We are in the presence of the first attempt of the dynamite party to carry out the policy of bring ing the war into tho heart of London. The •xplosion at our office occurred at 7:45 Wednesday evening, but the falling of the canister prevented any serious damage. There is reason to belie va the two attempts of this kind were made by some miscreant. London, March 15.—Oxford won the boat race. The sixteen boats started nt 5:41. Cambridge had the Middlesex side of the river; Oxford, the Surrey side. Ox ford led by a length at Duke's Head, a short distance from the starting point and won by three lengths. The Oxford 3 had the best of an uneven start. They pulled a regular stroke, nearly forty to tho minute, and were almost clear of the Cambridge boat at Craven steps, about six furlongs from the start. The Cambridge boat here deflected toward the Middlesex shore. The Ox fords at the end of the first mile, which they covered in 4:15, were two lengths ahead, and rowing well together. Here the darkness threatened and snow began to fall. The Cambridge crew was splash ing considerably by the time the ioap works were reached. At Hammersmith bridge, one and three-quarter miles from Putney, Cambridge was nine seconds behind Oxford; at Chiswick Eyot, three quarters of a mile further on, four lengths astern, and going better. A violent hail storm here broke upon the crews. The Cambridge eight quickened their speed, but at Corney reach it was evident it was all over with them. The Oxfords came in the easiest winners. The result causes greater excitement than that of any pre vious race in consequence of the heavy betting on the Cambridge crew,who, at the start, were favorites at seven to two. The defeat of a crew on whom such odds were laid is unprecedented. London, March 15. —Nothing is known here concerning the reported death of Karl Marx. ° Kennard will move in the common? that in view of the complete satisfying of all demands of American citizens npom the sum the Geneva conference allowed in re gard to the Alabama claims, the house is of the opinion that the balance should be re stored to Great Britain. London, Marsh 15. —Lord Edmund Fitz maurice, under foreign secretary, stated at the commons in answer to Coleridge Ken naid's question that the government had done nothing towards recovering the cur; pnls Alabama award. Dublin, March 15.—James Mullett, a murder conspirator, has given information implicating Patrick Egan and others. The information is sufficient to justify the arrest of Egan when he returns. Dublin, March 15. —The Catholic clergy of the diocese of Swineford, county Mayo, passed a resolution in which they charge I the goverment with neglecting the dis tressed people and condemn the remedies oflerd, namely the workhouse or emigra tion. FK.VN'CE. Paris, March 15.—Fifteen anarchists visited the office of the Intransigednt and attempted to compel Henri Rochef ort, the editor, to insert a note in the paper denouncing its report of the riot last Fri day as slanderous. The police have since protected the premisos,although Rochefort denied their services when proffered. Explosives have been found in the houso of a man named Perighet, who has been arrested. It is expected that information touching the doings of the anarchists more vital than any Louise Michel could furnish will be obtained from him. The government has concluded to expel, upon conclusion of their sentences, all for eigners who were convicted of implication in the riots here. They are mostly Ger man. Pabis, March 15.—0n a motion being announced in the chamber of deputies to authorize the prosecution of Savairy, mem ber of the chamber, and director of Rhone et Loire bank for malversation in con nection with the affairs of the bank. Sa vairy prevented the necessity of debating the motion by resigning his seat. Pabis, March 15. —The government will prosecute the anarchist organ, the Catayer. Pabis, March 15.—At the socialist meet ing, on the Champs de Mars, on Sunday, if the crowds refuse to disperse, three legal warnings will be given, and if. these warn ings are not heeded the rioters will be ar rested. Pabis, March 15.—Four anarchists, in cluding two members of the press, have been sentenced to two years' imprison ment, and to pay a fine of 3,000 florins, for the delivery of seditious speeches. RUSSIA. Baden-Baden, March 15. —The funeral of the late Prince Gortschakoff took place from the Russian chapel there yesterday. The physician who attended Prince Gort schakoff states there were enough grounds for suspecting the prince had been poison ed. The evidence of th« prince's mistress and his valet confirm the suspicion. In his will, made on his death bed, the prince requests the authorities to suppress any inquiry as to whether |he had been poisoned. St. Petebsbubg, March —The defal cation of Makoff, president of the society for regulating the social condition of the Jews, and who committed suicide, is eleven million of roubles. MISCELLANEOUS. Beblin, March 15. —The emperor has declined to accept the resignation of Ad miral Yon Stosch, chief of the ministry of marine. The Hague, March 15. —The chamber has authorized the government to nego tiate a loan of 00,000,000 florins. Bbussels, March 15.—The court of ap peal has decided the case of ex-Bishop Du mont vs. Monsigneur Dv Rousseaux, bish op of Tournay. The decision acknowl edges Bishop of Tournay and ceases all opposition to the surrender to the delegate of the Belgian government of the money and papers deposited by Canon Bernard in America. St. Petebsbubg, March —Perfilieff, director of the po6toffice, who attempted suicide, is suspended from office. Vienna, March 15.—The Russian govern ment has proposed to other powers that an international detective force be organized to cope with the anarchists, nihilists, fe nians, and socialists. France, Switzerland and Austria have acquiesced in the pro posal. Rome, March —At the consistory to day the pope appointed several bishops, including bishop for Halifax, Charleston, and Grand Rapids. Beelin, March 15.—1t seems certain that the emperor has declined to accept the resignation of Admiral Van Slasch. A PROSPEROUS PAPER. The Libel Suits Instituted Against the Chicago "Herald'! Multiplying at a Rap id Rate. Chicago, March 14. —Judge Rogers is engaged to-day in trying the libel suit of J. E. Clary, publisher of the Dcs Moines (la.) Mail Car, against F. W. Palmer, Jas. W. Scott and others, the alleged editors, proprietors and publishers of the Morning Herald, for $25,000 damages. The alleged libel was published on April 29,1882, and the offense consisted in lying that Clary was caught in flagrante delictu and re ceived a severe beating at the hands of the injured husband. Gen. Stiles' open ing speech for the defendants said it was ridiculous to suppose that Clary had been so severely injured by a statement made in a newspaper that not half of the jury had ever read, or ever heard of. The Herald will soon need a clerk to keep a record of libel suits. There were recorded yesterday two by Mr. Lehmann of "the fair" who was said to have once been a "fakir," and to be now the proprietor of immoral resorts on State street, all of which Lehmann denies. Mr. Lehmann says further that the attacks on him were published because he refused to advertise in the Herald, Coroner Bayden wants 20, --000 for intimations that he was not doing hi* duty legally, and was unduly influenced, especially in the Elliott inquest. Denounced as a Swindle. St. Joseph, Mo., March —The Herald claims to have reliable information which leads to the belief that the bill which re cently passed the state senate providing payment of old and new claims will be used, perhaps to cover a large number of fraudulent accounts, probably to the amount of $2,000,000, bo that if the bill passes the house and goes into effect, the Umited States government, which will ulti mately pay these claims, will actually be swindled out of the amount named. The Herald strongly opposes the bill. The Tallahatchie Rising. Yazoo City, March 15.—The Tallahat chie river, at Sharkey, on Saturday was six feet below 1882, and yesterday but seven inches below. It is rising two inches daily. The swamps of Tallahatchie and Yazoo will absorb much water. ' A Belgium Visitor. New Yobk, March, —Charles D. Havesteenhuys, one of the foremost pol iticians of Belgium, is a passenger in the steamer Switzerland, due here on Saturday. He intends to stay a few months in this country and acquaint himself with its in stitutions. Will Cr* It Alone. Pobtsmouth, N. H., March Senator Blair denies that he has conbined forces with Rollins in the coming senatorial con test, and declares he never will form an al liance with Rollins, Briggs and Chandler nor make a combination with any candi date. That while acknowledging himself a candidate he will not fight for re-election. For Rent. Store No. 157 and 161 Weft Saventh street, Seven corners. Apply to B. F. Zahm, at the store. ,I >v - WASHINGTON. ! TUB VIRGINIA. KEAT>.rtTSTEi:s' VIC TORY ix THE SUPJIEME VOUIIT. Lttrffe Quantities of Whisky lteiug Ex ported to Save the Tax —Appointment of A. \V. Wjnuan as Treasurer of the United States—Departmental Gossip. i I Special Telegram to the Globe.] Washington, March 15. —The Virginia readjustee are elated by the recent de cision of the United States supreme court, affirming the right of the state legislature to enact what is known as the coupon killer. The effect of this decision is to de preciate the value of tax receivable inter est coupons of the bonds issued in 1871 under Democratic rule. The readjustee have fought with all their stronght the tax receivable feature of these coupons, and when they got control of the legislature they passed a law imposing restrictions that will diminish to a very large extent the number of coupons that will be offered in payment of taxes to the state. Hereto fore the aggregate of taxes paid in cou pons has been so large as to seriously cripple the state treasury fer cash to meet its current expenses, and the retraining bonded debt of the state not funded in bonds with tax receivable and self collect ing interest coupons was neglected or only | partially met. The Democrats have stood by the original funding act, objecting to the passage of the act called the coupon killer, and the best lawyers in Virginia are said to have held that the coupon killer was unconstitutional be cause it impaired the obligation of the contract of the state with the creditors who funded under the act of 1871. A large portion of the holders of these bonds re side in England, but many of them are held in Baltimore, and that city has been the principal market for Virginia securi ties. It" proximity to Virginia has made the trade on tax receivable coupons very profitable to Baltimore brokers and bank ers. It is understood that they and the English bondholders will 6eek to obtain a rehearing from the supreme court. THB WHISKY TAX. The treasury department is informed that the shipment or*" whisky out of the country to prevent payment of tax before it is required for consumption, has already begun. "It is going, we understand, in considerable quantities," said an official of the internal revenue bureau, in speak ing of it to day, "and prob ably will continue so long as there is more whisky to come out of bond each month than there is demand. I sup pose the shipments will be made each month as the time approaches for paying the tax. The fact is, congress ought, at the last session, to have passed the bill ex tending the bonded period indefinitely. S'hat was the only thing to do, and do de cently, about the matter. But as it did not, the only thing these men can do is to pursue the course they are now following, or pony up the tax, and wait until the? sell to get it back." "Where do you understand that this whisky is going?" "Some to Europe, some into Canada and some to other sections." "And are these people going to make it pay to bear the cost of transporting the goods abroad and back simply to avoid payment of the taxes? Will not the cos* of transportation more than equal the in terest on the taxes "That I don't know. The cost of trans portation into Canada is not great. Where it is transported across the ocean it is claimed that the quality of the whisky is improved by the shipment." "How is that?" "I don't know, lam sure. I only know that that is claimed to be the fact. Then it is not improbable that the evaporation in the English climate might be less than here." "Is the loss by evaporation very consid erable?" "Yes, it is so* great that our rules allow a regauging and allowance for loss up as high as seven and one-half gallons per barrel in a curtain number of years." [Western Associated Press. I OOVEBNMEXT PBINTEB APPOIJ.TI:D. Washington, March —It is understood that Secretary Folger has tendered the po sition of chief of the bureau of engraving and printing to Geo. W. Corning, of Geneva, New York, at one time sergeant at-arms of the legislature of New York, and that he has virtually accepted the ap pointment. \ BKCBETABY FOLGEB's ILLNESS. • Secretary Folger is reported better to day. His improvement is slight however, and it is feared his perfect recovery -will be slow. He took cold Monday and is now suffering with ulcerated Bore throat. ADDITIONAL CHABGES. Additional charges against Supervising Architect Hill have been filed in the treas ury department and are now in the hands of Secretary Folger. Their nature is not yet made public, but it is paid on good authority that they relate to the contracts and expenditures for a new government building at Philadelphia. This matter is said to be assuming a serious shape and the charges recently filed, not in the nature of a repitition of the old story. THE GEN. HAZEN COUBT OF INQUIBT. It is rumored to-day that Gen. Terry may be selected president of the Hazen court of inquiry, with two colonels from the staff bureaus of the war department. TBEASUBEB APPOINTED The president to-day appointed A. W. Wyman, assistant treasurer of the United States, to be treasurer, vice Jag. Gilfillan, whose resignation has been accepted, to take effect on the Ist proximo. Mr. Wyman will secure his bond and qualify by that day. He was almost over- 1 whelmed with congratulations . this after- I noon. ■ The bond of a treasurer is $150,000 and*l must be approved by the secretary of the I treasury before he can qualify. It will I also be necessary for the secretary to ap point a committee to verify the treasury balance of the 31st of March, so the funds may be transferred to the new incumbent for opening business on the first proximo, when he will assume the duties of his of fice. The selection of an assistant treasurer which office. will be made vacant by *c promotion of Wyman, will depend upon the wishes of the new treasurer. It is pretty well settled that the appointment will be made from the treasurer's office. COTTON HOW MABKETED. Returns to the department of agricul ture of cotton sent to market from" plan tations aggregate 5,900,000 bales gone for-1 ward up to March 1. This is about 86% I per cent, of the crop as indicated by the I last returns of the product. The propor- ■ tions by states are North Carolina and I Texas, 83 per cent.; South Carolina, 85; ■ Georgia and Tennessee, 80; Arkansas, 87; Louisiana, 88; Mississippi, 89: Alabama, JO; Florida, 93. „ . ; THE TBiBUTE TO VICTOR KMAXUEI;. The department of state has been in formed that the Italian government desires to invite the artists of all nations to com pete in famishing a design for a national monument to be erected at Rome in honor of King Victor Einanuel 11. The monu ment is to consist of a bronze equestrian statue of Victor Emanuel, and of a base of at least thirty meters witty and twenty-nine meters high is its centfal portion. Its height elsewhere is to be at least twenty four meters. The base is to consist of an. architectural design of any form that may be selected. The steps leading to the esplanade on which the monument is to be placed will be considered a part of the monument. Plans may be sent in from November 15 to December 15, 1883. The royal commission will decide upon the design, and the successful artist will be entitled to receive 50,000 francs as a prize, and 50,000 francs additional will be divided by the commission among the most meritorious competitors. The grand plan of the site where it is to be construct ed can be seen at the department of state, where additional information can be ob tained on the subject, by artists desiring to compete in offering designs. LOWERING THE TARIFF ON TOBACCO. A question has arisen at the treasury department in regard to the following provisions of the tobacco schedule in the new tariff act: Leaf tobacco, of which 85 per cent, is of the requisite size and of the necessary fineness of texture to be suitable for wrappers, and of which more than 100 leaves are required to weigh a pound, if aot stemmed, seventy-five cents per pound; if stemmed, §1. The doubt is as to whether 85 per cent, is to be computed on the whole quantity of tobacco embraced in invoice or upon the contents of each sep arate package. The matter has been re ferred to the collectors of customs at New York and Boston, with instructions to con sult the trade and report a rule for the government of the department on this question. BETIBING ABMY OFFICERS. The provision in the last army bill ex :luding from calculation as a part of the regular retired list prescribed by law, not to exceed 400, all officers retired under the. aw of last year, because of having reached sixty-four years or having served over forty years relieves the regular retired list :o an extent of making thirteen vancan :ies, which 'will be filled at once by the re tirement of the described officers. THE IUBCHASK OF SILVEB. The treasury department to-day pur jhased 40,500 ounces of silver for delivery to the San Francisco mint. MAKING THINGS SQUARE. Ex-Representative R. P. Flower of New York, returned to the treasury $458.40, the irnouat overpaid him on account of salary and mileage a3 a member of the Forty seventh congress. GBANT LANDS CLAIM OF KANSAS. Ex-Governor Crawford, resident Wash ington agent of the state of Kansas, to day filed at the interior department a brief in support of the position taken by the state authorities on sundry long pending questions in regard to the Atchison, Tope ka & Santa Fe railroad land grant, and the case will probably come before the secretary for oral argument at an early day. The brief argues that the adjustment of the grant under the supreme court de cision of 1875 concerning it, would give the state a title to about 800,000 acres of land alleged to have been illegally certified, to the railroad company, and that m any event the state is entitled to some 200,000 --acres, now held by the railroad. NATIONAL BANK OFFICERS ON TRIAL. Argament begins in the United States supreme court to-day in a number of im portant national bank cases, brought here upon a certificate of division of opinion from the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Missouri. These cases, six in number, are suits brought by the United States against the president, rice president and cashier of the National bank of the state of Missouri, at St. Louis, and are founded on criminal indict ments, charging those officers with per jury, and conspiracy to defraud and the misapplication of the fends of the bank. The defense set up by the accused parties is chiefly technical and based upon .the alleged insufficiency of the indictments. A number of questons of interest are raised in regard to the scope and intent of those parts of the national bank act which relate to the prevention and punishment Df fraud by national bank officers. Practically a Murder. [ Lako City Sontinol, March 14. The good wife of Mr. A. Campbell,departed this life on Thursday evening last, at her dome on Main street, at the ago of thirty thre«> years, six months and nineteen lays. Tha deceased leaves a husband and Eonir children to mourn her loss.tho young sst being five years old. The circam itances attending her last illness and leath were peculiarly sad. A faw days previously her little sea came to the house in a sad plight, having been unmercifully beaten by a larger boy. Mrs. Campbell being in rather delicate health just at that time, was so shocked at seeing her ion covered with blood, was aud ienly prostrated, from which she never re- Jovered, but gradually grew worse, until leath came to her relief. The sympathy )f the entire community is extended to the bereaved family. ["Tha sympathy of the entire :ommunity" ought to be supp'e nented by execution of the villainous roung hoodlum, whose unmerciful bleed ng of her son caused the death of the, nother. Ed. Globh. } Diphtheria; 1 Special Telegram to the Globe. 1 Ha:kenback, N. J., March 14. - Diphtheria las become epidemic in the towns of North ludson county, and numbers of children are lying daily. James Flo ,d has just buried his fife. Two weeks ago his family consisted of liniself, wife and seven children, but he and his Host son are the only ones now left. Another amily, who reside on the Hackensack plank oad at Union Hill, has lost three children rithin as many days. A prominent physician old a reporter that he knew of over 100 cases of iphtheria in Union Hill and West Hoboken. lone. Sporting la England. L Special Telegram to the Globe. . New York, March 14.— private, letter an ounces from London that Rowell has recovered is old form, and has challenged the pedestrians f England for a twelve hours a day race for six ays, $500 entrance. Mason, the winner of the «trace, and the twelve hour Astley belt. Lattte ood,Day and Simpson have entered witk Rowell ) there will be at least five starters. Mason has is best record for a twelve hours' race. Lee is rowing on the river Cani, keeping him sir ready for the coming season. He has been nabls to get a race in England, the scullers say ig that they have had enough of Yankee row i B'nnn B°7^ matched to TOW m for I,uUU a Bide. The Hannibal & St. Joe. Chicago, March 14.—Th^ annna'. report o< ie Hannibal & St. Jos ph rairoad for ]« 2" tows an inoom» of 12,424,8<7; f« r running »V anses an) taxes, 11,490,521; interest, $653 620 --vidend of 6% po ■ cent, on piefvred stocV K0.395; surplus $89,511." The report sho^ ie first half of the year the fre ght traffic^ ? ht owing to the failure of previous years •ops. ■>uu™»