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rPPEE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.
Bar. Ther. Wind. Weather.
St. Paul 32.23 2 NW Clear
La Crosse 30.10 7 N Clear
NORTHWEST.
Bar. Ther. Wind. Weather.
Bismarck 30.49 -9 N l Clear
Ft. Garry.......30.60 -27 NW Clear
Minned05a......30.62 -17, . NW • Clear
Moorhead 30.45 -19 N Clear
Qu'Appelle 80.50 -10 S Clear
St. Vincent 30.52 -25 NW Clear
NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN SLOrE.
Bar. Ther. Wind. Weather.
Ft. Assinaboine.3o.B6 29 IS Clear
Ft. 8uf0rd...... 30.45 -2 NE Clear
Ft.^Custer 80.26 27 N Hy snow
Helena, M. T...30.34 35 Calm Thr't'g
Huron, D. T....30.48 -8 • N Clear
Medicine Hat...30. 27 28 NW Cloudy
UPPEB LAKES.
Bar. Ther. Wind. Weather.
Dnluth 30.30 -5 N Clear
I- DAILY LOCAL MEANS.
. Bar. Ther. Dew Point. Wind. Weather.
30.178 8.8 i -4.1 NW Cl'y,Snowy
Amount of rainfall or melted snow, .02, max
imum thermometer, 2.70; minimum thermom
eter, .0; daily range, 2.70.
River, frozen. .
- Below zero.
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and elevation.
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TO-DAY'S WEATHER.
Washixgtox, Feb. 28, 1 a. m.—lndica
tions for upper Mississippi! Fair weather,
north to west winds, falling . followed by
slowly rising temperature, generally higher
barometer. ". ; -; :
Missouri: Fair weather, north to east
winds, nearly stationary, followed by falling
barometer, and by Friday morning slowly
rising temperature. :
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YESTERDAY'S MARKETS.
There was considerable activity at the board
of trade yesterday with wheat at lc. and corn 2c.
higher, The Milwaukee wheat market was dull
and B e. lower. The Chicago markets were weak
and lower, wheat closing J£c. below Tuesday's
close; corn was unchanged and oats scarcely
steady, while pork went back 12c. There was no
new feature in the money market on Wall street
Government and railroad bonds were firm; state
securities dull. Stocks opened weak and lower,and
declinedJ4@l}^. At midday they strengthened and
advanced a shade, led by Oregon Transcontinen
tal, but the rise was only spasmodic and the mar
ket closed weak and a shade lower than Tuesday.
Northwestern 1 per cent., Omaha 13£ per cent.,
Manitoba 1%, and Oregon Navigation 1?£ lower.
Directors of the St. Paul have declared the semi
annual dividend of %V per cent., payable April
15. Mining shares were extremely dull but prices
firm. \;.;V ' X-J.'; '■ '■'•:
The N. Y. Sun rebukes Conkling for his
lack of professional manners. Conkling's
personal normal state is overbearing inso
lence, arrogance and hauteur.
The Associated Press in undertaking to
state the vote in the House upon the appro
priation for the relief of the flood sufferers,
placed Hon. S. S. Cox, of New York, and
Messrs. Wood and Ward as voting against
the bill, when in fact all three voted for it,
and Mr. Cox was most eloquent in his advo
cacy of it.
At Avondale, near Cincinnati, last week,
the house of a colored family of three was
burned. The persons were missing. Search
revealed the bodies on a disecting table in a
Cincinnati medical college. An examina
tion showed that they had been murdered.
Their skulls were fractured. It is believed
they were murdered for the purpose of sell
ing their bodies to the college. Can fiendish
human depravity well go further!
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. ■
The call of the committee for the National
Democratic convention, -is broad, patriotic,
and catholic"in its spirit and speaks trumpet
toHgued to the thousands who have not; hith
erto acted with the Democratic party, but
who are not only dissatisfied with
the party in power, but who are alarmed at
its unpatriotic tendencies, to join in purify
ing and renovating the politics of the coun
try. The call in its Invitation is broad and
comprehensive and extends to "all Demo
cratic conservative citizens ,of the
United States , irrespective of past
political associations and differences, who
qan unite in an effort for pure, economic
al constitutional government." Corrupt
leaders have overeone their work,. have
alarmed the honest conservative element of
the country, and that element will coalesce
with an honest Democratic effort to rescue
power from the clutches of the spoilers.
FORCIBLE—
An Anti-Arthur Republican demonstration
was held in the Academy at Brooklyn, N. T.
the other night at which Carl Schurz and
President Seeley'of Amherst college were
the speakers.
The Brooklyn Eagle says the speeches were not
stringent or pointed, put were commonplace
abounding in leverplatitudes. There gen
tleman seemed to speak under restraint
' and the ■ most startling novelty produced in
their remarks, was in the original declara
tion in regard to the Presidency, that "the
place ought to seek the man, not the man
the place." They prated about political vir
tue in pulpit . strains,".' but - seemed
afraid to charge home-corruption
upon anybody, * seeming >-jto .; realize
that they were open to the same charge them
selves. From such "forcible feeble" de
monstrations,. Arthur has not much to fear.
The Eagle says; ' speaking of the preform
ances of Schurz and Seeley: •.'■; -■■••.■...,
\\-i f'Theyarein the position of people who
cannot throw stones. because they live in
glass houses. ;:. They cannot for instance as
jail the rascalities of the Star. Route men,
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the corruption of congress by the monopo
lists, the villainies which have made the
navy a monument of successful brigandage
and"the systematic prostitution of the public
service, because they are both tainted by the
very worst fraud known to American history
though not in an equal degree. Mr. Schurz
was part and parcel of the rotten Adminis
tration which rewarded with office every ras
cal who forged a return or committed per
jury to nullify the will of the people. Mani
festly, patriots who had a hand in that busi
ness are not just the persons to hold Arthur
to a very rigid account for his misdeeds.
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It is about time to turn out a party and
party leaders thus saturated with corruption,
and replace them by men of integrity, and
honest, unselfish purposes, who have some
impulses of patriotism, and a regard for the
public welfare, paramount to mere personal
benefit.
ANOTHER WRONG TO THE INDIANS.
An effort is being made to concentrate
certain Indians in this state on one reserva
tion and under one agency. This measure
receives the support of some of our best citi
zens, who believe that the concentration will
better the condition of the Indians.
We are satisfied that many of the advocates ,
of this measure are actuated by the best of
motives, and it is not our wish to impeach
their honesty or integrity, but behind all this
there is the avaricious lumberman, who
yearns for the magnificent pine forests in the
Red Lake reserve. He is unwilling to
appear in this move himself,
but hides behind good men, who
go forward, secure the. concentration, then
the noble, unselfish lumberman will enter
the land and secure these valuable forests at
a nominal price, thus swindling the govern
ment and the Indians. If the various bands
which it is contemplated to consolidate at
White Earth agency, are brought together,
there will be so many conflicting interests
that savage warfare may be looked for, until
the smaller bands are either annihilated or
driven away to depredate upon our frontier
people. Aside from this, their concentration
will retard their progress in civilization.
Scatter, rather than concentrate, and they
will be brought in more intimate relations
with the white man, and neces
sarily make more progress, as
they will see the advantages
which civilization and Christianity confer up
on the white man.
Had the government a century since re
garded the Indian as a human being and
made him subject to the law, and protected
him by the law, the Indian problem would
have been solved long ago. He would have
pre-empted land as their white brother has
done and these lands would have descended
to their children, thus instilling into their
untutored minds the idea of Individual rights
of property and the necessity of caring for
themselves and those dependent upon them.
Their neighbors instead of being bloodthirsty
savages, would have been white men from
whom they would have learned much by be
ing brought in contact with civilization, how
ever crude, and they would have seen its
advantages, and gradually abandoned their
savage life. This cannot be done now. It
is too late but it is not too late for the govern
ment to step in between them and those who
would rob and destroy them. In the
name of justice and fair dealing, we should
be kind and merciful to these poor creatures
who, in the providence of God, have been
placed under our care. Our treatment of
them has been cruel and wrong. They have
been driven from their homes wherever the
avaricious white man has longed for their
lands. Wrong has followed wrong until
they have about concluded that the name of
white man involves all that is low, mean and
rascally. We trust that this measure will
fail to pass, and that the Indians will be left
as they are at present.
MANITOBA SECESSION
The English provinces in America are ex
hibiting much uneasiness, and an inclina
tion to secede from the mother country.
These manifestations appear to be giving
the British government no little concern.
Manitoba seems to be ripening very fast seces
sionwise, and is awakening the serious atten
tion of the home government.
The secession leaders in Manitoba have
long been maturing their plans. A mass
meeting is to be held in Winnipeg March
sth, and it is alleged that the Manito
ba people have been system
atically organized by determined leaders to
spring their plans upon the March meeting
and the result, it is believed, will be to car
ry secession by storm. Secret emissaries are
scattered all along the boundary line from
the Atlantic ocean to British Columbia.
The first move is expected to be a declara
tion of independence by the Province of Man
itoba and the setting up of an independentgov
ernment. The plan is to call a delegate con
vention to form a constitution, and then pe
tition the congress of the United States
and ask for admission into the
Union. This secession organization is said
to be worked up by Irish-Americans, who
have had their leaders out not only in Mani
toba, but in Northern Dakota and Minnesota
for several months past. It is said a leading
Irishman, who was formerly connected with
several Irish organizations in Chicago and
the east is nGw in North Dakota, perfecting
plans to have in readiness an army of 20,
--000 Irish Americans to march across the bor
ider as soon as a declaration of independence
is made in Manitoba. A gentleman
claiming to be well posted in the whole mat
ter asserts that nearly all the Irish-Americans
in the United States are interested in this
revolutionary, or secession movement. Ex-
Fenians are alleged to be very active in this
movement.
It is also alleged that an organization is
being perfected in Fargo. A leader in a
fierce speech is reported to have said: "We
want no French—nothing but Irish Catho
lics. .We want those who can carry mus
kets."
It is said that arms are in readiness, and
that in two days after the order for assem
bling has gone forth 20,000 men will be
ready to march across the border to aid the
secessionist to maintain their independence.
The telegraphic dispatches announcing the
maturity of secession movements in Manitoba
and the organization of an army of 20,000,
Irish Americans ready to march at the tap
of the drum, may be regarded as very gas
eous. The allegation that an al
leged inchoate conspiracy to
inaugurate a secession movement, will peti
tion to received into the United States fami
ly of states is simply ridiculous-. This is
putting the cart before the horse. Congress
could not receive and act upon a proposition
to receive ihe provence of a friendly power,
until that provence had acheived its inde
pendence, and been so acknowledged
by the mother country.
That real grievances exist in Mani
toba cannot be ignored. The
people deeply feel them. The refusal of the
Dominion goverment to regard the petitions
of the people for a redress of these grievances
inflame them more and more. That seces
sion is talked of, and looked forward to,
unless the government recedes from its po
sition, of ignoring the grievances complained
of, is unquestionably true, but
that an armed force is already
organized to raise the Btandard of revolt, is
not likely to be true, though that point in th c
future may be reached. The following ex
tracts from the Winnipeg Free Press, of Feb.
26, will show the present temper and spirit
of the people of Manitoba. The Free Press
says:
Mr. Norquay, like the farmers' delegates,
is returning empty handed from Ottawa.
Our special representatives have all been re
ceived civilly at the Dominion capital. They
have been politely listened to. They have
been assured that the government is well
aware that the agitation here is not a parti
zan affair, and there the matter rests. Noth
ing has been done, and no assurance has
been given that anything will be done.
* * * # *
The people have now been placed in such
THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE. THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 1884.
a position that they must, by tamely submit-'
ting, confess that ? they have ;: been making
fools of themselves in ■ demanding what they
had no right to, or they ' must \ proceed ; In; a
manner which will induce the ■ Government
to'■■:■', : reconsider its determination.
*****
* We have already warned the government,
and we once more tell them that continued
obstinancyon their' part will inevitably be
followed , by the secession of Manitoba from
the Dominion. We tell them further that
they will be utterly . powerless to deal with
such a movement. Cannadiaus will not
fight against their, friends and relatives here
when driven to the necessity of standing up \
for their, rights. What Manitoba wants
it can get.- Our demands are and will con
tinue to be reasonable. They must be com-'
plied with.
The Free Press also speaks of the return of
Mr. Norquay, the Premier of the Province of
Manitoba, in the following terms:
Mr. Norquay is now on his way back from
Ottawa, and Is likely, we believe, to reach
home to-morrow evening. This means, of
course, that there ,is no; longer room for
doubt as to his want of success, as he evi
dently failed to receive, in Toronto, such as
surances as would have warranted
him in returning thence to Ottawa in
reply to the Ministers' sum
mons. In view of all the circumstances
we believe that the people of the Province
owe it to themselves and to the Premier to
receive him in such a way as would afford the
very strongest proof of their sympathy with
an interest in his successful mission. They
will no doubt be ready to do this, and will
further be prepared to support htm in such
measures as are likely to secure to the pro
vince the concessions which all now seem
to be necessary.
In another column is placed the interview
of the correspondent of the Winnipeg S»n
with Mr. Norquay which will
be read with interest. Everything
points to the fact that the people of Manitoba
are deeply moved at the present posture of
their affairs.
THE DYNAMITE SPOOK.
The late explosion in the Victoria station,
London, is charged to dynamite and the
Irish. This would be the conclusion in any
case, for whenever anything is blown up in
England it is dynamite which is the agent and
an Irish-American who conveys it to its
place. O'Donovan Rossa, in this country,
remains affirmatively silent when asked if
the work is that of his men, and
then passes around the hat for
another contribution of nickels and
quarters to aid in the work of blowing up
Great Britain. Every time there is an ex
plosion anywhere in the country all the old
women of the island (and they include the
entire population) become frenzied over the
result; there is a demand for more strin
gent measures against Ireland and an increas
ed hatred of Americans on the ground that
they are responsible for every
occurrence in which the peace of
England is menaced by the use
of explosives. If the English people who are
threatened, and the flats in this country who
are swindled out of their money, under the
pretense of blowing up England, would look
at this whole dynamite business coolly, they
would all see that It is a most bare and pre
posterous fraud. This dynamite warfare has
been going on for several years. The amount
of money which has been collected by pretend
ed patriots and bare-faced adventurers,
for the alleged purpose of blowing up
British shipping and destroying English
towns has amounted to colossal sums. What
has been the actual results of all this collec
tion of money, this terrorism among the
paralytic octogenarians of England, this ill
feeling which has been engendered between
the English and American people? Has there
been a single instance in which British ship
ping has been destroyed even to the extent of
a dingey; have there been cities blown up or
down; nay has there been so much as a
back yard out-house which has yielded to
Irish-American dynamite? Has there been
one life destroyed? Has there been so much
as one British little finger blown off by this
dynamite which was to sweep the British
marine from the seas and British towns from
the face of the earth? The total of the mil
lions which have been collected in this
country' for the . dynamite fund has resulted
in the blowing in of a couple of windows in
Downing street, the tearing up of some rails
in the underground Praed street station,
and the later explosion at Victoria station,
which no life was lost, and the entire
damage inflicted does not exceed the value
of $10.
This is all, and even this must be consid
ered by a stretch of the imagination to be
the work of dynamite and Irish-American
conspirators. There is not a particle of ev
idence that there has ever been a|single penny
weight of dynamite exploded by Irish influ
ence on the island of Great Britain. It is
merely the surmise of frightened Britons that
dynamite was the agent in all three of these
cases. In truth, there is more reason for
thinking that gas was the explosive material
than that it was dynamite. Suppose it was
dynamite, and the bombs were drop
ped by Irish-American conspirators, how
much nearer freedom is Ireland on
account of the work which has thus far been
done? And then what lame and impotent
results? Dynamite was to revolutionize the
world. A little of it in a man's pocket
dropped in the midst of a great city was to
rend it like an upheaving earthquake. This
awful agent of Irish revenge and wholesale
British destruction has been dropped in the
midst of the great city of
London, and 10, St. Paul's
cathedral Is intact, Westminster still stands
sombre and gloomy with its weight of cen
turies. Princely Regent street is still throng
ed with its aristocracy, cow bells are uncrack
ed and the bank of England still occupies its
solid foundations. Nothing is injured. The
omnipotent dynamite has been applied, and
instead of a London in a heap of smoking
ruins, a few panes of glass have been shatter
ed. This is all. How muqh. longer will this
farce be continued ?
IS THERE DANGER?
Is modern civilization in danger? Judge
J. A. Jameson thinks so, and in an article in
the last number of the North American Re
view, points out what he[]believes to be the
accumulating influences that menace our
civilization and its institutions. In speak
ing of these influences he says:
One of these, on the part of capital, is the
principle that there are no limits beyond
which capital ought not to be allowed to ac
cumulate: or that corporations cannot right
fully be controlled in the exercise of their
charter powers; or that while monopolies,
strictly so-called, are illegal, virtual monop
olies, entailing upon a people all the evils of
real monopolies, ought not to be disturbed
in gathering their colossal harvest of gain.
And again: another principle, both 6ocial
and political, which would destroy the pres
ent order of things is that that is necesssar
ily right which receives the vote of the ma
jority. Properly understood, Mr. Arnold's
maxim, that it is a "remnant" only which
ought to have the power of making laws or of
determining what is right conduct, is just.
If so, the converse of this, that the power to
govern ought to be lodged with that which
has the major physical force, is untrue, and
might, if the principle were carried into ef
fect, lead to a wrecking of existing institu
tions. For labor, therefore, to say to itself,
"Because we outnumber those who would
rule us by bo many millions we have the
right to make such laws as will best suit our
purposes, without regard to the rights of oth
ers," would be a great error, and, if reduced
to practice, that principle would prove fatal
to society. The wise are ever the few.
These gloomy views of the permanency of
the onward progress in the forward march of
national prosperty, may or may not be well
founded, but it is not surprising that many
thoughtful men are filled with apprehension,
at the breakneck speed, and often confused,
inmature modes resorted to in the control,
if not advancement of the social, political,
financial and industrial interests of the
present time.
SHALL WE HAVE A NAVY?
Congress has struck the question of money
once more. , It is shown in the debates tbat
since the close of the war the expenditures
for building a navy have exceeded by $50,
--000,000 all the money expended by the gov
ernment before that period.
The result of this enormous outlay is that
we had some 600 vessels on the li?t of
the navy, while as a matter of fact we have
not a single first-class war ship in our posses
sion. We have not one of the second-class,
nor even one of the third-class, as ships
are rated by first-class maritime
powers. In fine, all the ships in our posses
sion, if assembled in a single fleet and act
ing as one, would not be able to capture the
Inflexible of England, the Devastation of
France, the Kaiser of Germany, the Onitio of
Italy or the Hua.scar of Chili. Hence all we
have in the shape of a navy is not the equiv
alent of a single first-class warship as devel
oped by a half dozen other nations. The
main question is, what kind of a
navy shall we construct, if we conclude to
go into the business. Shall we undertake to
put ourselves on a level with England, which
country, for some inexplicable reason, we
still continue to regard as our mortal enemy,
and with which we are always anticipating a
fight. It would take us a half century to se
cure naval equality in the way of ships and
guns with that country: and even If we were
on equality in this particular, we
should still be immeasurably inferior
in other particulars, for the
reason that the extent of coast which we have
to guard would require a navy equal to that
of Great Britian without including the ships
which, in ca3e of war we should require to
"carry the war into Africa." The question
is one of the greatest importance. One thing,
however, is plain enough, and that is, that
the country should no longer tolerate the ex
penditure of millions of dollars per annum
for war ships and yet leave us always without
a navy.
LOBBIES.
The lobby, the "third house," at Wash
ington, has been a conspicuous congression
al adjunct under Republican rule. The
lobby is sometimes very powerful, for money
is power. It is composed largely of un
scrupulous men, those who will give bribes
If they can find parties corrupt enough to
take them. They adroitly place money
where it will "do the most good." Repub
licanism, as administered in these latter
days, seems to furnish a congenial
soil in which for the lobby
to flourish. This illegitimate, outside power
and influence find little encouragemept
among the Democracy. During the exist
ence of the last Congress, the lobby was
more powerful and influential than ever be
fore. The "third house," was the strong
est and bore greater sway than either of the
others. It possessed a peculiar element of
power, which may be easily guessed of,
without being named
The present Democratic House, in com
parison with past Republican Houses, is con
spicuous for the absence of a lobby, and for a
sparse show of membership in the "third
House." There seems to be a lack of con
geniality in the atmosphere surrounding
Democratic majorities.
The New York Sun says, that the traces of
the lobby, which was so active and powerful
one short year ago are no where
to be seen in Washington
to-day. The N. Y. World says: "The
report comes from Washington that the lob
by, finding its business blocked, in the Demo
cratic House of representatives is deserting the
national capital in despair." The Albany
Times says: "The lobby men are all deserting
the halls of the Democratic congress. 'It's
the worst congress for business I ever saw,',
said one of them. Give me the glorious leg
islature at Albany":
These are assuring and inspiring signs of
the times.
Lobbies are the productive source of jobs,
and all unclean'ess in legislation. If organ
ized" corruption cannot bear sway under De
mocratic rule, then certainly it is for the in
terest of the people to secure everywhere,
Democratic predominence.
CURRENT COMMENT^
It might be just as well to give all of Uncle
Sam's children a pension. Though there are a
few classes exempt, it is fast coming to that.
The following statement of our pension opera
tions by the Philadelphia Press bristles with per
tinent facts and startling comparisons, and is in
teresting reading. The Mexican war, says our
Republican cotemporary, brought 101,282 into
the field in the regular and volunteer service,
of whom barely 1,500 died in battle. The num
ber of troops in line was larger than in the war
of 1812, although the number enrolled was less.
Congress, in 1871, rashly put the survivors of
the war of 1812 on the pension list, fifty-six
years after the close of the war, and extended
its bounty to survivors who served for fourteen
days in 1878. The pension list to-day carries
26,161 persons, one-sixth of whom served in the
war of 1812, while the rest are widows of those
who did so. The annual expenditure for these
pensions is §2,500,000, twice the pension list in
1861, and twenty times its size when the revolu
tionary war was five years old at the foundation
of the government. The snm these pensioner?
cost on a war seventy years old is a fifth as large
as the pensions France was paying in 1878, and
half as large as the pensions of Germany in the
same year, seven years after their great struggle.
This annual outlay is four times the military
pension list of that military monarchy, Austria,
and a fifth as large as the most expensive pension
system in Europe, that of Great Britain."
Mr. Holmak voted for the congressional ap
propriation for the relief of the flood sufferers in
the Ohio valley, notwithstanding the New York
Sun opposed the same, a? without warrant under
the constitution. The opposite courses of Mr.
Holman and the Sun caused considerable com
ment, owing to the supposed intimate relations
of the statesman and the journal. To parry the
gibes of its cotemporaries, the Sun feels con
strained to say that "a man like
Mr. Holman must be pardoned not for one mis
take only, but for fifty." This logic applied
to the Sun's favorite for the Presidency shows
two things, that Mr. Holman is a blundering
ideality and the Sun reckless in its judgment of
men. It would have been the manly thing, how
ever, for the Sun to have admitted that it blun
dered in denouncing the flood appropriation as
illegal. Such is not the fact, and in supporting
the proposition Mr. Holman not only showed
himself an honest patriot, but a wise and prudent
public servant. Mr. Dana's sunshine is a good
deal hazy and spotted at times.
The latest report of the postal and telegraph
department of the German empire exhibits a
large augmentation of business and revenues.
At the present point of time there are in Ger
many 12,584 postoffices, employing 82,529 per
sons, and under the system of management pre
vailing the surplus of receipts over operating
expenses amounts to a valuable addition to the
Imperial revenues. Comparing the volume of
business of the postal departments of various
European countries Great Britain comes first,
Germany second and France third. The com
piled statistics for the year 1882 exhibits that for
every individual inhabitant of Great Britain 52.5 let
ters are transported in the mails; in Switzerland
the ratio is 49.8; in Belgium, 42; France, 35.3;
Netherlands, 32.6; Germany, 31.8; Denmark,
80.6 ;~Austria, 17.4; Sweden, 14.8; Norway, 14;
Italy, 11.1; Hungary, 9.4; Spain, 7.1; Portugal,
6.9; Greece, 3.6; Russia, 2.9; Eonmania, 2;
Servia, 0.7; Bulgaria, 0.5; Russia, Bulgaria and
Servia are the only European countries in which
the postal department needs assistance from the
public treasury.
A compilation of census statistics for the
Bombay presidency and Scinde are interesting
and instructive. The area of Bombay is 76,108
square miles, and of Scinde 47,752, and the popu
lation for, as reported by a census, (not padded
a la Monsieur Johnson) is 16,454,414, an average
of 133 persons to the square mile, or, if the desert
plains are left out, the average exceeds 174,
which is about the average for Austria. There
is an average of 17M; house* to every 100 people,
which is nearly as high a proportion as in Eng
land, where the figures are 18^ to 100. The city
of Bombay contains 775,196 persons, and there
are several other cities with 100,000 and over.
As to the people, the males are largely in excess
of the females, although tit mortality among the
men is much greater. In Bombay there are 975
women for every 1,000 men, and in Scinde there
are only 833. Che difference ia due to a greater
number of males born, for a greater number die,
and more females pass the age of 50 than men, no
that the prevailing belief that the mode of life of
women in India is unhealthy and destructive i»
disproved.
The lowa Senate has passed a bill prohibiting
the sale or manufacture of liquors of any kind
spirituoqp, vinous or malt. Now if the House
can be induced to pass the bill, the matter will go
into the supreme court so that its constitutional
ity may be passed npon. If the legislature and the
courts can fix the matter, there need be no fuss
ing to get a constitutional amendment. If, as in
Ohio, the court is "packed" to secure an opinion
favorable to the law, the peonle will be denied
their opportunity to express an opinion on the
subject. The friends of prohibition are not
"square" men, but by some kind of evasion ever
seek to escape the direct issue.
Gov. Robinson, of Massachusetts, held a
Washington Birthday reception, and shook hands
with five thousand, three hundred and sixty-two
people, who took time to attend the "show."
Somebody who thonght the governor showed i
signs of weariness, remarked to him that he must
be tired. "Xo, no," said the governor, "that
right arm has swung too many scythes and cut
too much wood when I was a young man to be
tired out now." The governor may be a nice
man and a square-trotter, without humbug or
guile, but he talks the same way the demagogues
do.
President Robinson of Brown University, i« a
lazy man or a "fogy," or both, as his declaration
that he "would have no objection to open Brown
University to women except that it would be
harder to manage than before." If the able
President were a man who understands human
nature and one of even ordinary observation, he
would know that just the contrary is the fact.
Wherever co-education has been introduced the
presence of lady students has had the effect up
on the students of the other sex to make them
better behaved and much more easily managed.
Mr. Emory Storbs, of Chicago, ought to know
what he ia talking about, and if he does not,
doubtless he thinks he does in making the state
ment, "I can say with a great deal of certainty
that Blame is decidedly opposed to Arthur and
has spoken in the most favorable terms of Log
an." With as much certainty it may be said that
Mr. Blame is not opposed to Arthur, and he is
not vehement for Logan.
A Paris letter writer, giving a synopsis of the
curiosities of the.French capital, recites that the
following rare advertisement appears painted in
large letters on the side of a porte cochere in the
Rue de Sevres: "Madame Zenobie C , third
story, lets out teeth for evening parties and
balls."
Oregon holds its election next June, and the
Republican? are fired with anxiety to secure it,
and are ready to pure the way with a stream of
gold for thut consummation. If there happens
to be any Republican shouting over Oregon, it
will be the result of purchase, and big money at
tbat.
Mr. Sherman's "outrage" committee has
come to a halt because there is no money to pay
witnesses, etc. Mr. Sherman will have to "brace
up," and while he is about it, he might as well
pay for his "outrage" committee out of his own
pocket.
.'That great Ohio man, J. B. Foraker, "opened
the campaign of 1884" by making a speech at
Wooster Monday night. The theme of the
orator's effort was the Republican party; rather
a large subject for so small a man.
The Southern Ohio papers do not have space
now for any news bnt flood news, which they
give in ex eutenso. In one way this is of service,
as the name? of those who have had losses fur
nishes an opportunity for relief.
The Cincinnati medical college prefers that its
subjects be received warm and with fractured
skulls. This is the "Ohio idea."
NEW BOOKS.
Our "Wild Indians" Thirty-Three Tears
_ Personal Experience by Gen, Dodge V. S.
Army. ... £ ■._-. 5 ,. :, y. ;
This book is decidedly. the most brilliant in-
teresting, instructive, and authoritative that
has ever emanated from the American press,
on Indian life. The vices, virtues, hospital
ities, cruelties, braveries, endurance, tortures,
domestic . trait?, in fact every phrase of In
dian life, is sketched with the pen of a mas
ter. Gen. Sherman writes the introductory
chapter and gives the whole weight of his in
fluence to this extraordinery book.' -f'J-" .-*■
The leading journals of " New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington," and
other cities gives the most unstinted praise
to the work in question, and the moral and
military journals join in the chorus of ap
probation. The book is printed in bold clear
type on excellent paper' and is pro
fusely ' ' illustrated with scenes
of Indian life, great battles, Indian tortures,
dances, etc., etc. : There are several splen
did portraits of celebrated Indian fighters,
including Gen. Crook, Custer, ,Miles, Mc-
Kenzie and the author . Gen. Dodge. The
new and most attractive feature of the book
is a series of chromo lithographic plates,, il
lustrative of Indian life. These chromos in
clude grand war bonnets, costly dresses;
peace pipes, musical instruments, cfadles,
war clubs, bows and arrows, and innumer
able other Indian novelties. ■ These plates are
in fourteen different colors. Mr. Talbot of
Cleveland, Le ; . Sueur county, r ; agent for
this work for St. Paul, and Minneapolis, has
just begun his canvass and . we doubt not
will have abundant success. We advise those"
who are really prejudiced against the Indi
ans, and those that are "not, to secure the
book that they may for the future form a
just estimate of the Indian character. ■• ;
LATE MINNEAPOLIS NEWS.
Word comes from Ridgeway. a small town
near here, that on yesterday Jo Beach shot
and killed his wife, from whom he had been
recently divorced and afterwards killed him
self, the trouble grew out of a dispute over
the possession of their child, of which the
custody, by a decree of the court, was given
to her. Beach is a well-known sporting
man and a former resident of St. Pa ul.
The Speaker's Gavel.
[Washington Letter.] "
It has become customary, by courtesy, for
a retiring speaker to take with him the gavel
he has used, to keep as a relic in his family;
so a new one must be made for each speaker
elected.. The new one made for the. present
speaker has a very plain, stout round hickory
handle, about ten inches long. Its mallet is
a stout piece of ivory, about five inches in
circumference, and on either end are two
blue circles.' The first handle made for this
new gavel was a . fancy one: of ebony, with
various projections and indentions,-making
it .very.weak in certain places so at the last
moment a handle had to be ; made, lest the
new speaker should break the ebony one the
first time he used it with emphasis. He is
not a man, however, given to acting on vio
lent impulses or easily provoked to anger on
any occasion. Two of those, however, whom he
has within a few weeks called to take his place
in the chair have broken the strong handle of
the new gavel. ' Once i the y mallet-end | flew
off the handle and just missed striking one of
the clerks at the table in front of the speaker's
desk upon the head." -Such a blow from the
heavy piece of ivory would have been painful
if not serious in its effects. ,-. ; ; ■■ -' < • ''•■
A Historic House.
[London Truth.]
Mrs. Fitzherbert's house at Brighton, which
has just been sold to the trustees of a Young
Men's Christian association, was built in
1804 by the architect of the Dome and Pa
vilion. Mrs. Fitzherbert paid £4,000 for the
house and site, and this was the last money
she ever received from George IV. It used
to be said there was an underground passage
between this house and the Pavilion, but this
was nonsense, and arose out of the fact that
a passage was cut from the Pavilion to the
sea in order to lay pipes to bring the water up
to the royal bath-room. For this work the
country paid £1,000, and the king never
once used the new bath—indeed, at the time
it was constructed he had not taken a aea
bath for fifteen years.
THE OLD WORLD.
The Irish Dynamiters are Found
to Haye Their Headquar
ters in Paris.
The Emperor William Banqueting the
Grand Dnke 3f ichael and
His Party.
The Advance Has Begun from Trinkitat, with
Some Fighting Already.
News from the East Becoming More Inter
esting Daily.
THE STATE BANQUET.
Berlin, Feb. 27.—The emperor gave a
state banquet in honor of the special Rus
sian embassy and the Grand Duke Michael.
Gen. Gourko and other prominent Russians
were present. The emperor had previously
bestowed on the Grand Duke Michael the
cordon of the order of the Black Eagle, which
the latter wore. The grand duke sat be
tween the emperor and empress, and oppo
site to Count Yon Moitke, who .sat between
Gourko and Schouvaloff. The emperor wore
the uniform of the Kaluga regiment. He
proposed a toast in honor of the czar,
speaking in the French lan
guage. He said, "I am anxious
to express to your highness how much I am
touched at the attentions of the czar, in hav
ing remembered the anniversary of my re
ceiving the order of St. George, after I had
fought in the Russian army in the Kaluga
regiment, of which I am colonel, under the
eyes of my father. lam profoundly touched
by this flattering souvenir. I desire, your
highness, together with the officers selected
for this mission, to be interpreters of my
grateful sentiments toward the czar. I driuk
to the health of the czar."
THE QLEEN" OF TAHITI.
Paris, Feb. 27.—The Queen of Tahiti has
arrived.
LOTTERY MEN FOTXD GUILTY.
Petersburg, Va., Feb. 27.—1n the case of
the commonwealth versus the agent of the
Dismal Swamp Canal Lottery company, the
jury returned a verdict of guilty, fixing de
fendants' punishment at five minutes In jail
and a fine of $5. The defendants will ap
peal.
THE ADVANCE BEGUN.
Cairo, Feb. 27.—The advance of English
troops on Teb commenced before daybreak
to-day. Two hundred and fifty men were
left to garrison Trinkitat, and a force of
3,500 men advanced to the attack. It was
expected a battle will be fought apout 9 in the
morning. The naval brigade joined Gen.
Graham with two nine-pounders. There is
a growing anxiety in Cairo about the result
of the expedition, and less confidence that
the English will be victorious. The black
troops at Suakim were found in communica
tion with Ahmod Baroudi, second in com
mand under Csman Digma. Admiral Hewett
has forbidden them to leave the camp, and
stationed the gunboats Decoy and Sphinx so
that they command the camp, with orders to
open fire if there is any symptoms of mu
tiny.
A DEEP SCH&ME.
Paris, Feb. 27.—The police are convinced
that an advanced Irish party has made Paris
their headquarters in Europe for the prepara
tion of their dynamite schemes. An in
spector says the nationalist colony includes
the representatives of three centres of the
Irish Republican brotherhood. The first sec
tion comprises the former Fenians, Jarues
Stephens, John O'Leary and Gen. Mac
adams, but the last named disavows belong
ing to the society. His mission was to coun
sel the friendg of extreme violent views, but
it was not his duty to reveal their acts, how
ever nefarious or mistaken they might be.
He was certain other nationalists shared this
view, too. Capt. McCafferty said the weak
were justified in using terrorism against the
strong. He repudiated ampliation with the
continental secret society. He sympathised
with the revolutionary propagandism in Eu
rope, because Ireland was benefitted thereby,
but nationalism, even the most extreme, was
not necessarily linked with nihilism or an
archy. He denied conspiring actively, but
added, experience was valuable to prevent a
repitition of former mistakes. The police
traced the arrival of five transfers, or men
belonging to the third or active section of the
dynamiters, who have been told off for the
next attempts. One of them is from Buffalo,
N. V., "one from Patterson, X. J., one from
Brooklyn, N. V., and two are from Texas.
They are believed to be the
pupils of Mezeraff. The other
Irishmen under watch "are, Cornelius Culli
more, Eugene Davis and' Casey. It is be
lieved that the dynamite is made at Mont
rouge. The supposed manufacturer is regis
tered as an authorized chemical 6tudent.
The measure under which authorization is
necessury is confined to the making of dy
namlte. The Instructor is believed to be a
man namedßrady, under the alias of "Ing."
The brotherhood meet in the Rue Corneille,
Rue St. Honore, and Avenue Victor Hugo.
THE TREATY WITH HUE.
Paris, Feb. 27.—At the instance of Teicon,
lately French minister to China, the treaty of
Hue will be modified so that the inhabitants
will be relieved of the exactions of the
Mandarins. It is believed the capture of
Bacninh will offer no serious difficulty. The
military operations in Tonquin are regarded
as almost terminated.
PRESSED IXTO THE SERVICE.
LOXDOX, Feb. 27.—Four Turkish iron
clads go to the Red sea on Monday. Two
hundred Egyptian laborers at Trinketat were
pressed into service as hospital bearers.
A 810 LOAN.
Paris, Feb. 27.—1t is rumored that ar
rangements are making for a new Russian
loan of 200,000,000 roubles.
DOUBLE GCARD.
Loxdox, Feb. 27.—The guard at Chatham
convict prison was doubled last night, in
consequence of the expectation of an attempt
to be made by the Fenians to liberate the In
vincible 3.
REPORTED ATTACK.
Paris, Feb. 27.—1t is reported the Anna
mites recently made an attack upon the
French near Hanoi. The result of the en
gagement is unknown. The Chinese lega
tion has no information.
THE JEWS TO BE PROTECTED.
Pesth, Feb. 27.—Hcrr Vantissa, prime
minister of Hungary, has given instructions
to the municipal authorities everywhere to
proceed rigorously against all persons guilty
of fomenting hostility against the Jews.
WELL RECEIVED.
Loxdox, Feb. 27.—The new speaker took
the chair at the opening of the house of com
mons to-day amid deafening cheers, the
members rising and uncovering.
GOSE TO HER XEff HOME.
London, Feb. 27.—The steamer Thetis,
purchased for the Greely relief expedition,
ha 3 set sail for America.
PLAIN TALK.
Berlin, Feb. 27.—The Deutcshe Tagrblatt
says: "Minister Sargent has so compro
mised his government that if the latter does
not wish further embarrassment it must dis
pense with his services."
WOULD LIKE TO SEE A QUARREL.
Paris, Feb. 27.— Le Paris says: Bismarck
has not only outraged the American re
public, but has defied the world, but the de
mocrcy has more serious things to think
about than mind this insolent challenge.
A LIVELT SCENE.
Trinkitat, Feb. 27.—The beach presents
a lively appearance. Blue jackets, up to
their necks in water, are landing stores and
carrying soldier ashore through the surf.
The Gordon highlanders and Irish fusileere
are advancing to occupy the fort erected by
Baker Pasba. They waded barelegged
through the morasses which lie between the
harbor and main land. The distance to the
fort is about four miles. It was built on
February 2, to protect the guns while cross
ing the morasses. The rebels regard with
exultation the landing of the forces. They
are convinced that Ailah has sent them alias
a prey for them.
ANOTHER CANAL.
, Cairo, Feb. 27.—1t is announced that
Charles De Lesseps will com* here In April
for the purpose of obtaining concessions
which will permit the construction of a sec
ond canal across the Isthmus of Suez.
The new sultan of Darfour refuses to leave
Korosko until he receives £1,000.
NITRO-GLTCERTXE.
Loxdos, Feb. 27.—The chief inspector of
explosives assert?, that no donbt the explo
sion at Victoria station wa3 caused by nitro
glycerine.
9OIXO TO MARRY.
Darmstadt. Feb. 27.—The betrothal of the
Princess Elizabeth, of Hess, with the Grand
Duke Sergins, of Russia, is officially an
nounced.
RETtSED TO OBEY ORDERS.
Scakim, Feb. 27.— The captain of thejEfinrpt
ian steamer Damanhour refused to obey orders
to proceed with his vessel to Trinkitat. Ad
miral Hewett arrested the captain, and
placed his lieutenant in charge of the
Damanhour.
THE SITUATION' HI THE EL OBEID REGION*.
Khartoum, Feb. '27.—A man who left
Elobeid. ten day* ago. arrived this morning.
He reports that the garrisons of El Fasher.
Darra, Masterie and Foga are still sur
rounded, while the garrisons of Omshanga
and Thasi have surrendered. He says there
has been no fighting at Bahnjazette. He
saw three Englishmen, at El Obeid, who were
eaptand at Kashgil. They were weD treated.
The missionaries were not molested. Mahdi
has only a garrison at El Obeid. The Arabs
have gone to their villages, but are under a
promise to assemble in case of war. Mer
chants are passing freely between here and
Dongola.
THE EUROPEANS KILLED.
London, Feb. 27.—According to mall ac
counts, in Baker Pasha's defeat, fifteen
Austrian, four German and four Swi33 offi
cers were killed.
THE EMPEROR AND THE CZAR.
Berlin, Feb. 27.—At the state reception,
to-day, the emperor expressed his warm
thanks to the Grand Duke Michael, of Russia,
who had come in the name of the czar, to
felicitate the emperor upon the seventeenth
anniversary of his in vesture with the Rus
sian order of St. George.
IMPEACHED.
Christiana. Feb. 27.—Christian August
Selmer, minister of state,whowas impeached,
is adjudged guilty, and sentenced to forfeit
bis place as minister and membership of the
royal council,and to pay the eo<K £5,000.
FIGHT NEAR SIAKIM.
Scakim, Feb. 27. —A tight took place to
day on the Berber road, nine miles fnna
Suakim, between the rebels and the friendly
tribes. Some of the latter cut their tray
through. Two thousand men are eathered
from tribes numbering 10,000, who wish to
come In to-morrow. The friendly tribes de
sire to fig ht if supported.
LOOKING FOR PLUNDER.
Cairo, Feb. 27.—The mudir of Meina, to
day arrested a rebel emissary,who confessed,
underpressure, that El Mabdi's men were
advancing' more in the hope of plunder than
for political reasons.
NOT THE BEST OF NEWS.
Trinkitat, Feb. 27.—The Arab boy who
was sent with a letter to Tokar, h:is returned
bearing marks of ill usage. He says hi- was
taken prisoner at Tokar, that the town sur
rendered on Friday lust, and Unit the rebels
intend to fight In three lines, closing ou the
rear of the British as the troop-; advance.
PREPARING FOX TPIE ATTACK.
Trinkitat, Feb. 27.—The British camp U
well protected with earthworks. Spies report
that Osman Digua is threatening Suakim.
Admiral Hewett has returned to Suakim.
The rebels are massing one mile from K<>rt
Baker, aud tiring at the British vedettes,
without, however, doins uny damage. Krujip
guns have just been mounted at the fort.
GORDON REPORTS ALL WBIX ON' THE SOIDAN.
Cairo, Feb. 27.— Gen. Gordon reports
Soudan tranquil, and is sending 300 invalid*
down the river.
Berlin, Feb. 27.—The Grand Duke Mi,
chael presented an autograph letter from thi
czar and the baton of a Russiaufield murih^J,
set iv brilliants.
PEACE TO BE MAINTAINED.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 27.—The Gazette
says, joint endeavors to preserve the pi a< .•
of Europe, will, no matter what changes oc
cur, always form a band of uniou between
Russia and Germany.
LOSS IN' THE BATTLE AT TEB.
SUAKIM, Feb. 27.—The rebels lost 1,300
men In the recent fight with Baker Pasha.
It is stated tbat dissensions exist everywhere
in the rebel ranks.
UP THE WHITE NILE.
Khartoum, Feb. 27. —For the purpose of
reassuring the well affected, and for over
coming the disaffected, two armed steamers,
under the white fiatr. will ascend the White
Nile, euder command of Col. Stewart, who
will distribute freely Gen. Gordon's procla
mation. If attacked the crews will be ia a
position to defend themselves.
THE ATTACK ON' BACHXINH.
Haiphong, Feb. 27.—A dispatch from
Hanoi says, Millot and Briere will start on
March 8 to attack Bacninh, General Grier
leaving Haidzuong earlier, with 6,000 men,
will close the Lanuson road. It will be ne
cessary to disembark troops to capture forti
fied posts along the Songkol river. There are
seventeen similar posts on the Hanoi road.
Deserved Presentations.
Newport, R. 1., Feb. 27.—The Opera
house was crowded, and hundreds were un
able to gain admission upon the occasion of
the public presentation of the testimonial to
the officers and crew of the revenue cutter,
Dexter. The officers of the United States
naval ship, New Hampshire, also Colonel
Best, and the officers from Fort Adams and.
the torpedo station were present. Ex-Gov«
ernor VanZandt presided and delivered an
eloquent address. Capt. Gabrielson, of the
Dexter, his officers and men, were loudly
cheered as they appeared upon the stage.
The mayor of Newport presented the en
grossed resolutions, and Captain Gabrielson
received them in a brief and pleasantly
worded speech.
Lieut. Rhodes' Influence.
New Haven, Conn., Feb. 27.—The cham
ber of commerce will shortly consider the
matter of Lieut. Rhodes, with a view to put
ting the revenue service upon the same ben
eficial footing as that occupied by the naval
service, as regards pensions and benefits.
Lieut. Rhodes has deposited 83,000, received
from various sources in testimonials for big
bravery at the Gayhead disaster, and awaltt
permission from Secretary Folger to distrib
ute the money among his shipmates on the
'Dexter. To forestall a possible adverse de
cision of the secretary, Lieut. Rhodes pur
chased new uniforms and blankets for every
man on board.
Improvements.
Boston, Feb. 27.—The city engineer ha«
found it necessary to establish an
other pumping station at Squantum,
and reported in favor of taking
land for that purpose. Both Squan
tum and Moon Island are owned by Paul
Butler, son of the Ex-Governor, and lie has
already received $10,000 from the city for the
use of Moon Island; Gen. Butler has ap
peared before the committee with several
propositiohs. wnich are taken under advise
ment.
Fair Horgewhippers.
San Francis co, Feb. 27.—Two women this
morning horsewhipped D. L. Regenberger,
a prominent attorney. Regenberger wai
walking on Kearney street, when the pair
sprang out of a carriage, performed the deed,
re-entered and drove away. The cause ia
said to be the expressions of the attorney
resenting the intrusion of the women into
his society at the Mardi Gras ball last night.
The Yale Oarsmen.
New Haven, Conn., Feb. 27.—The Tale
oorsmen adopted an amendment to the con
stitution, which places the entire manage
ment and policy of Yale's boating interests
in the hands of an executive committee, con
sisting of one graduate, coach and captain.
The entire internal business management
remains with the president as before.