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6 ramus m OFFICE—No. 6 Washington Avenue, opposite Nicollet house. Office hours from 6 a.m. to 10 O'clock p. m. The red tape plan which has to be gone through each year before a street can be or dered sprinkled, is an abomination and Bliould becijolished. No streets have been ordered sprinkled because the property own ers have inadvertently neglected to petition the city council lor the same up to yester day. Busixess men claim that trade has not been so dull for many months as at the pres ent time. A prominent boot and shoe mer chant has discharged several of his clerks, and ie pretty thoroughly discouraged gener ally. In a business point of view, the "nar row guage policy," so called, is a failure. It is stated that the elaborate decoration of the city during the national encampment of the G. A. R. will be superb, and equal in every respect to that of the Villard reception last September. Tpe firm of C. A. Plllsbury & Co. not wish ing to be outdone by W. I). Washburn, have donated §1,000 to the fund for the reception of the old veterans at the national encamp ment. The Blame enthusiasts are too angry to content themselves, because the machine politicians sat down on them so forcibly at the convention of Tuesday. MINNEAPOLIS G LOBXXETB. The board of health failed to get a quo rum. The City Council held an adjourned meet ing last evening. The real estate transfers filed yesterday aggregated $111,018. The board of water commissioners will hold a regular meeting this evening. W. C. Coup will give a baby show in Mar ket hall soon. It will continue a week. Frank Witherall was brought down from the pineries yesterday with a broken leg. The Ida Siddous party is handsomely billed for next week at Pence Opera house. The detectives arrested another man yes terday upon suspicion that lie was a cracks man. In the case of J. R. Sherburne vs. R. J. Perry judgment was yesterday filed for the plaintiff. Charley PiUsbury says he is out of politics and declines to attend the state convention as a delegute. The University club gave the last of their Bertes of dancing parties last night at Mal colm's hall. The Pottgeiser divorce case came up for hearing iv the district court yesterday and was dismissed. Business in the city comptroller's office will open up brisk on May 1, when the new licenses will be issued. The Sunday Morning Call will issue a Sat urday edition hereafter, and Col. Rockwell promises it will be spicy. Company I gave a grand ball at Armory hall last night aud dauced to the music of Danz' orchestra. The real estate tax cases set for to-day came up yesterday by stipulation before Judges Lochren and Young. Commander George Smith has been in stalled commander of C. C. Washburn Post G. A. R. to till a vacancy. Arrangements are being perfected where by Dauz's orchestra will give a series of con certs in Armory hall to begin soon. Capt. Chase went on duty at headquarters last evening and Capt. McCraney took his place at the East Side police station. Yesterday being St. George's day, the St. George society appropriately observed it last eveuiug in a banquet at the Brunswick. Grading streets for paving is progressing rapidly, and quite a stretch of granite paving has already been laid on Second avenue south. The following parties received marriage li censes yesterday: Charley Weyrnan and Lottie Aspiund; Wm. J. Barber and Clara Brown. Tho premises known as 251 Nicollet ave nue have been sold by Cyrus S. Brown to Joseph W. Cochrau, for a consideration of $25,000. The chamber of commerce will move into its new buildiug ou May 1, and use one of the large halls uutil the trailing room is com pleted. The balance of the delegation to the Re publican slate convention will fill the vacan cy occasioned by the declination of C. A. Piilsbury. Some foity couples attended the leap year ball given by the Busy Body club of the East Side iv the Odd Fellows' hall, and it was a happy affair. The annual reception of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm to their dancing classes will occur to-morrow eveniug. It will undoubtedly be a grand affair. Larry Erving, employed in an East side quarry, was seriously injured by the prema ture discharge of a blast yesterday morning, and it is feared that he will lose his right eye. The "Sparks" company closed its Minne apolis engagement at the Grand last night, and this evening Pat Rooney with a specialty company will open foi the balance of the week. The W. C. T. U. will hold a regular meet ing this afternoon at three o'clock in the Friends' meeting house. A meeting of the executive committee will be held at two o'clock. Wm. T. Blair, a youug man twenty years old and residing at 415, Fourth street south, wasadjudged insane in the probate court yes terday and will be committed to the lunatic asylum to-day. One of the proprietors of the livery stable in Highland park was kicked in the face by a vicious horse yesterday, and the calk of the horse shoe inflicted a savage gash, partially severing the nose. The regular monthly meeting of the Col lege Hospital Flower and Fruit Mission will take place atthe residence of Mrs. Dr. French, corner of Hennepin and Ninth street, on Friday, April 25, at 3 o'clock. Col. John H. Stevens, the first reside nt of Minneapolis west, has sold 100x132 feet of his homestead, located on the corner of Eleventh street and 'Sixth avenue south, to R. S. Goodfellow for $7,500. Dora Bennett, a blind lady, had her foot caught and badly crushing in the elevator in the Sidle blook, through the carelessness of the janitor, and it is feared that a partial amputation will be necessitated. The two men arrested by Detective Glea son, as reported in yesterday's Globe, upon suspicion of being connected with the blow ing of Nick Rutle's safe, are still held in dur ance while the detectives are workiug up a case. In the ease of Farnbam & Lovejoy against their bookkeeper, Wm. F. Thompson, judg ment by default was yesterday filed against the defendant in the sum of $10,485.11, on motion of J. B. Gilfillan, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs. Next Friday evening the young people of Plymouth church give an entertainment at Bennett seminaryfor the benefit of the Bethel mission. The programe consists of charades which were gotten up especially for the occas sion, iuterspersed with very fine music. The first social assembly of the Wolfe Tone Rifles was held -with eclat at Market hall last evening with all the members in attendance. The festivities opened with a fancy drill which lasted half an hour, after which a pro gramme of sixteen plain dances was taken up with music by Sidwell's orchestra. Sup- per was served at 11 ;30 o'clock when danc ing was resumed. Open air concerts will be given during the summer in Oak Lake park and Highland park. Prof. Danz will furnish the music at the former place, but it has not yet been de cided what band will be engaged for the other. The antual election of the [Ames Zouaves resulted as follows: A. A. Ames, captain; Geo. R. Seaton, Ist Lieut.; F. O. Vanstrum, 2d Lieut.; J. E. Reuillard, F. E. Coffin, J. 11. Wamlcy, J. H. Heffner, J. W. Marshall, sergeants, and W. F. Van Meader, color bearer. Yesterday Chief West arrested a Swede named W. Valine at the request of the au thorities of Anoka. In the afternoon Officer Watson came down and returned with the prisoner. Valine, in company with a pal, passed an amount of confederate money upon the unsophisticated denizens of our neighboring city. Prof. Frank Danz has arranged an ex ceptionally elaborate programe for next Sunday's Turner hall concert. In view of the near approach of the grand Thomas fes tival, Prof. Danz will give his admirers a foretaste of classical music, and has decided upon the compositions of the celebrated Wagner. The concert will be a rare treat. A few nights ago 6neak thieves broke into a freight car on the Northern Pacific road an d stole about 200 pounds of smoked ham, which they secreted in a lumber yard. The booty was accideutaliy discovered by some laborers, who immediately notified Capt. Clark aud the captain detailed two officers to lie in wait for the thieves when the latter came for the plunder. Th ey did not come, and now the ham is at the East Side police station. A new Improvement association has bo en organized under the caption of the North Side Park Improvement association, and in cludes the owners of property in Highland Park, Fairmount Park aud Sherman ez Bee be?s addition. Officers will be elected and a constitution and by-laws adopted at the next meeting. The constitution will be similar to that under which the Oak Lake association is now working. At the annual meeting of the Appollo club it was decided to make the club an in corporated organization and the following officers were elected: President, L. Michaels; vice president, Qua Rees; secretary, 11. Rothsceild, and treasurer, Joseph Robitshek; board of trustees, Messrs. Cy. Rothschild, R. Rees, D. C. Loweustein, M. Benson, M. Si'gelbauui and S. Meyers; amusement com mittee, E. Beusinger, M. Levi and J. Colin. The report has been industriously circul ated that no fines would be accepted from the demimondes by the present administration, because, forsooth, it is contrary to law. Yet, whether it was a bluff or a report originated through inadvertency, it was incorrect, for yesterday the housekeeper and the inmates of the Second street bardell filed into the municipal court and deposited the little sums as of yore, and to-day other nymphs dv pave will "follow suit." At the executive meeting of the G. A. R. hotel rates were reported; the matter of in viting the president and other distinguished guests was deferred; too high a price being asked for the headquarters at the Nicollet, that question is still open; the Armory was decided upon as the place for meetings; the proper committee was authorized to procure rates from ai! the bands in this section; Mr. Mattisou's oiler to print a card giving tran sit rates on various lines was accepted. An emigrant en route for Portland, Oregon, with his family, lost the Northern Pacific train last evening, while the family went on the journey with the train. He felt badly. As a consolation he got gloriously drunk, and had his pocket picked of a sum of money all he had, in a First street saloon. George Connelly, the man charged wit! nearly breaking the skull of John Sunburn with a four foot club, as reported in yester day's Globe, was arraigned in the munici pal court. His trial was set for Friday after noon. The complaining wituess has a hard looking head, indicating pretty rough usage. Clara Harris, the street walker, has been pulled in two consecutive nights for being found on the streets after the stipulated hour of nine o'clock, but each time his honor has failed to find her guilty of a misdemeanor, and she is again free. If this thing contin ues the brazen woman will turn out for mid night rambles as in ye olden time. The or der of his honor, the mayor, has had, up to the present time, a salutary effect, and the streets at midnight's holy hour have resem bled those of the proverbial "deserted city," but things are liable to "loosen up" again soon. . MINNEAPOLIS PERSONALS. Miss Annie Conway, the guest of Mrs. Ed. Campbell, returns to her home at Roseinount this evening. Rev. Father Powers left last evening for Chicago. Rev. Father Ahne, of Grand Forks, D. T., is the guest of the Dominican fathers. Anthony Kelly, who has been suffering from inflammatory rheumatism for the past three weeks, is speedily recovering. W. S. Pattee, Northfleld, and James Kempf, Fergus Falls, were at the Clark house yester day. E. G. Russell, chief clerk of the superin tendent's office of the M. 6c St. L., is confined to his room by illness. Mrs. J. Ward, Mrs. Lanman, Mrs. Van Cleve, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. E. F. Pomeroy and Ers. T. B. Janney are attending the meeting of the W'oman's Board of Foreign Missious at the Cream City. C. Ev White, Sauk Center; R. A. Brown, Crookston: W. G. Sawyer. Northfield; M. C. Hall, Granite Falls; Edward Ray, Rochester; H. H. Wells, Morris and Otis Aver, Le Sever; were registered yesterday at the Nicollet. THE COURTS. District Court. COURT CASES. fßeforc Judge Koon.| W. Pottgeiser vs. P. Pottgeiser; dismissed. N. H. Giertsen vs. Burdick & Co.; judg ment for plaintiff. [Before Judge Young.J W. W. Cargill & Bro. et al. vs The Mil ers ' & Manufacturers' Mutual Ins. Co. of Minneapolis; tried and submitted. Josephine R. Sherburne vs. Robert J. Perry; judgment for plaintiff. NEW cases and papers. Jensen Gilbransou & Co. vs. Louis P. C. Crevier et al.; complaint filed. Same vs. Same; same. R. F. Jonesvs J. F. Cordray et al.; com plaint, bond and affidavit for attachment filed. Alfred H. Hedderly vs. James Baxter; judgment roll filed. N. H. Giertsen vs. Burdick & Co.; same. Farnham & Lovejoy vs. Wm. F. Thomp son ; judgment roll of §16,431.11 filed. Probate Court. [Before Judge Ueland.] Estate of Richard R. Tshudy, deceased; decree of distribution made and order allow ing final account. Estate of George C. Bugbee, deceased, pe tition for letters filed; hearing May 19. Estate ef Michael Finn, deceased; letters issued to James Ryan; orders limiting time to pay debts made. Estate of Sarah M. Cahill, deceased, letters issued to Win. M. Cahill; orders limitiug time to pay debts made. Guardianship of Robert R. Tshudy,a minor; petition for license to sell land filed; hearing June 9. Insanity of Wm. T. Blair; examined and committed. Estate of James Deckler, deceased; peti tion for settlement and distribution filed; hearing May 19. Municipal Court. [Before Judge Maloney..] John Dinnelly, drunkenness; committed ten days. Peter Johnson and Clara Harris, vagrancy; discharged. George Connelly, assault and battery upon John Sunberg; continued until Friday at 2 p. m., defendant goes on his own recogni zance. Bell Clark, keeping house of ill-fame; paid a fine in §50 and costs. Nettie Parker, Millie "Watson and Kittie Golding, occupying apartmeuts in a house of ill-fame; paid fines in $12.50 each. THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE. THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 24, 1884. THE CITY COUNCIL. An Iron-Clad High License Ordinance Re ported. At the adjourned meeting of the council last evening, Mayor Pillsbury announced that he had dismissed from the police patrol men John Schroeder, P. Gallagher and Thos. L. Kelly. He also reported appointments of special policemen for private premises. The new patrolmen are G. L. Eckland, Charles A. Reed and John Wold. The election of S. C. Cutter at the special election for alderman in the Fifth ward was reported and Mr. Cutter took his place in the council. The committee on licenses reported an ordinance fixing license fees as follows: Druggists, §5; auctioneers, £100; peddlers, 810; foot peddlers, 85; billiard tables and pool tables each, 825; shooting galleries, etc., 8100; theaters, 8200; pawnbrokers, $100; junk shops, 8100; circus, first day, 8400, second day, $200: menagerie, first day, $100, each succeeding day, $50: for menagerie and circus combined, $500, each succeeding day, 8250; exhibitions in separate tents, first day, $50, each succeeding day $25; ventriiiquists, magicians, etc., $50, each subsequent day, $25; hawkers, each day, $25; concerts or performances, $25. A specific liquor license ordinance which is iron-clad in every particular was read, placing the license at $500. The ordinance prohibits the sale of liquors in any building where theatrical or variety entertainments are given, and compels each man taking out the license to superintend in person the busi ness licensed, and requires in addition to a stringent affidavit a bond in the sum of $500, and the license is forfeited in case the party who takes out the license ceases to do busi ness in the place designated in the ordin ance, i. c., cannot be transferred to another party and the saloon keeper cannot remove to any building other than that for which the license was issued. The mayor is empowered to refuse to grant a license for the sale of liquor in any section of the city he deem fit. The ordinance further more prohibits the sale of liquors between the hours of 11 o'clock p. m. aud five o'clock a. in. and the mayor or city council has the power to revoke the license at any time and upon violation of ariy of the conditions the license may be revoked upon first conviction and must be revoked upon the second, and after such revocation no license can be issued to the same parly within one year. The ordinance went over under the rules. THE MILLING INDUSTRY. Weekly Retriew of the Business at the Falls. The Northwestern Jflllcr of to-morrow will contain the following resume of the past week's business at the falls, the Globe being furnished with an advance sheet of the same: Last week's work on the platform was charaterized by the distinctive feature of be ing the largest since last November. The very heavy output of the three Washburn mills, which alone made over G.OOO bbls. of flour daily, contributed largely to this result. These mills were run to their utmost capaci ty, and are not being less rushed this week; but they were an exception in this respect. The flour production of the week ending Sat urday amounted to 112,985 bbls.—lB,B3o bbls. per day—against 96,954 bbls. the pre ceding week. Although there were ouly fourteen mills in operation Tuesday, several having shut down Saturday night, the pro duction of this week will probably reach 17, -000 bbls. daily, aud possibly 18,000 bbls. The heavy work of the Washburn mills helps a great deal to keep up this large average. Millers complain as much as ever about the dullness of milling, but redognize the ne cessity of keeping their mills in operation to a sullieieut extent to supply their regular trade. The following were the receipts at and shipments from Minneapolis for the weeks ending ou the dates given: ItECEIPTS. April 23. April 15. Wheat, bushels 311,500 510,000 Flour, barrels 3,225 4,000 MhTstuft, tons 180 170 SHIPMENTS. April 22. April 15, Wheat, bushels 40,500 44,500 Flour, barrels 107,805 94,313 Millstuff, tons 3,537 3,144 The wheat in store in Minneapolis eleva tors (including the transfer) as well as the stock at St. Paul and Duluth, is shown in the appended table: MINNEAPOLIS. # April 23. April IG. In elevators, bushels 2,353,333 2,434,000 ST. PAUL. April 23. April 10. In elevators, bushels 909,000 1,007,500 DULUTU. April 22. April 15. In elevators, bushels 1,508,708 2,512,485 Ailoat 242,003 242,003 Total 2,751,311 2,743,032 THE SPORTS. The Minneapolis Gun club will shoot this afternoon at glass balls, on the rifle range near the university. The members of the Minneapolis Bicycle club met last evening at the Nicollet and then perambulated the streets on their fast flying machines. The managers of the base ball association are determined to have their grounds here so arranged and fitted up that the games can be witnessed by the spectators with both pleas ure and convenience. STILLWATER. Miss Zue McClay returned to her home in Minneapolis to-day. Strawberries are selling at the modest sum of 50 cents per box. "White Bear Lake all clear of ice and lake interests picking up. Mr. Trumbull, of Fargo, it is stated, will act as umpire of the game of base ball on Saturday afternoon. Rev. S. McClay will preach on Sunday evening next on the relation of business men to those whom they employ. Rev. Henry Bloom, of the Methodist church of this city, was married on Tuesday last and is on the way home with his bride. Mrs. Wheeler, of Memphis, is to lecture at the Methodist church Thursday evening on woman suffrage, as related to temper ance. The Stillwater nine will play their second match game of the season with the Rock Is land club. The boys are to leave here Sun day afternoon on the 4:40 train on the Du luth road. •The commutation tickets issued by the Omaha company between Stillwater and St. Paul are equally good frqm either place—ten rides are given for §5, which is simply a re duction of 40 cents on the round trip be tween the two cities, or fifty cents each way. The tickets are good for one' year from date of issue. M. L. Griffin and James O'Neil, of this city, have secured the contract for grading a mile and a quarter of the Minnesota, St. Croix <fe Wisconsin railroad. The firm are now awaiting the settlement of the right of way. According to the terms of the non tract this job must be completed by the 15th of September next. A German by the name of Herman Medel, residing on the North Hill, is charged with abusive conduct towards 'his wife. Tester day after a quarrel with his much better half Medel is said to have stripped the house bare, leaving neither food nor furniture, making a clean sweep of everything of value on which he could lay his hands. Those ominous words—To let—were no ticed yesterday over the door of a basement room on Main street, in one of the best busi ness locations in the city. Notices of the kind referred to above has heretofore been unnecessary on Main street property. Gen erally the demand for vacant rooms has been largely in excess of the supply, especially in the busiuess portion of the city. M. Burkhardt, who has until recently been employed as foreman in one branch of the Manufacturing Car company's moulding de partment, has for some months manifested strong symptoms of mental aberration. A commission of physicians has been appointed and will to-day examine Mr. Burkhardt in re gard to his sanity. The present condition of ] this unfortunate man is rendered the more deplorable from the fact that his malady is the resuls of a fall received while assisting to extinguish a fire in this city some years ago. Opening of the Skating Rink. The grand success attending the opening of the parlor skating rink on Tuesday even ing far succeeded the expectations of the most sanguine friends of the enterprise. The pleasure commenced to flock in by eight o'clock. It was estimated that one thousand persons were present. On the arrival of the train from Minneapolis and St. Paul, nearly a hundred more were added to the number. The building would without doubt, soon have been uncomfortably crowded hadnot the saleof tickets been stopped, by which a large number of people were compelled to return home, being unable to gain admission. The skat ing arena presented a most attractive and lively scene, mingled with a slight modecum of the ludicerous by the unavailing efforts of some of the skaters to maintain a per pendicular position. Notwithstand ing their most strenous exertions, a few of the gallants measured their full length on the floor. To the not undisgused meriment of the spectators among the Minneapolis and St. Paul party will a number of skaters, whose movements were light and graceful, accomplishing many brilliant feats as a matter of course. Still water furnished her full share of upsets, who, aside from the professionals were fully as ac complished skaters as any of those from abroad. Mr. Frank Crocker of Minneapolis, assisted by his two little daughters gave a professional exhibition, executing a variety of difficult movements, which are attained only by long practice. During the entire evening, the most perfect order was main tained. The parlors are intended for ladies and gentlemen, and no others will be ad mitted under any circumstances, even should they apply. MAKSHFIELD, WIS. [Special Correspondent Daily Globe.] Marsiifield, April 22. —Preparations are being made for the immediafe rebuilding of the Upham Manufacturing company's saw mill at this place. As near as can be learned the new mill will be greatly improved over the former one, which was destroyed by fire on the 9th inst. It now leaks out that the 6aloonists held a meeting last night with closed doors, and de cided to buck the $150 license established by the council at its last meeting. The pros pect of a lively time on the subject is antici pated. The Webster Manufacturing company started up their hub and spoke mill here to day. Peter Fulmer, who died Saturday night ot pneumouia, will be buried to-day. Internal Revenue Collections, Washington, April 23.—The collections of Internal revenue for the first nine months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 18S4 are as follows: Spirits, $55,497,393, an increase of $2,102,490 over the corresponding period of the previous year; tobacco, $18,854,535, a decrease of $13,755,393; fermented liquors, $12,658,859, an increase of $595,773; banks and bankers, $2,392, a decrease of $3,741, -534; miscellaneous sourses, $440,904, a de crease of $6,006,539. The aggregate receipts are $87,454,054, which is 820,505,253 less than the collections of the last fiscal year. TILDEN'S PLATFORM IN 1870. [From the Records of the St. Louis Convention.] We denounce the present tariff, levied up on nearly 4,000 articles, as a masterpiece of injustice, inequality aud false pretense. It yields a dwindling, not a yearly rising reve nue. It has impoverished many industries to subsidize a few. It prohibits imports that might purchase the products of American labor. It has degraded American commerce from the first to an inferior rank on the high seas. It has cut down the sales of American manufacturers at home and abroad, and de pleted the returns of American agriculture— an industry followed by half our people. It costs the people five times more than it pro duces to the treasury, obstructs the process of production, and wastes the fruits of labor. It promotes fraud, fosters smuggling, en riches dishonest officials, and bankrupts hon est merchants. W re demand that all custom house taxation shall be only for revenue. A TEXT. That is a Platform for All Thoughtful, Pat riotic Men, "No reform of administration is possible so long as the government is directed by a party which is under the dominion of false doctrines and animated by enormons pecu niary interests in perpetuation of existing abuses. The first effectual step in the reform of our government must be a fundamental change in the policy of Us administration work. Re form will be difficult enough with the whole power of the government exerted in accom plishing it." [S. J. Tilden's letter to the Iroquis Club.] A CLEVER SWINDLER. The Career of a Swedish Chevalier Cut Short in t)ie City of Berlin. | Berlin Volkszeitung.] The career of one of the most clever con fidence swindlers was cut short a few days ago by his arrest and imprisonment. The man, a Swede by birth, came to tho city in February, with forged letters of introduction to a prominent clergyman, and for two months he lived in clover. His visiting cards bore the names of Count Yon Aren berg and Otto yon Berg-Scaria, Knight of the Chamber, and was surmounted by the royal coat of arms. He readily secured quarters at the Hotel Frederick William, be sides borrowing several thousand marks from the proprietor, whom he gulled with a most plausible story of his high rank In Swe den. His stock of wearing apparel was rath er limited, but he explained this by readily fabricating the account of a railway collision whereby he lost his trunks. His second venture was to visit a swell haberdasher on the Frederich strasse, to whom he lightly flipped one of his cards. He selected about 500 marks' worth of the choicest linen and underwear, which he ordered to be sent to his hotel. The next day the over-confiding shopkeeper had another addition to his door-plate, with the words "Patronized by the royal family of Sweden." He obtained to entre one of the most fashionable clubs, where he found no end to victims, one of whom, a well-known banker, he beguiled with the story of his long ac quaintance with Prof. Nordenskjolld, whom he exclaimed to have accompanied on his last Arctic expedition. By degrees he worked in a story ef. delayed remittances and allowed himself to be persuaded into accepting a trifling loan of 1,000 marks. His next ex ploit netted him another 500 marks. He paid oneof his newly-made acquaintances a visit one morning and with his suave manner succeeded in palming off a story of an invi tation to breakfast with the Crown Prince, who desired to hear him relate his experi ences in the Arctic regions. He causally re ferred to the loss of his trunk containing his uniform and also the absence of ready cash to obtain a new one, which so impressed the banker that he at once offered his purse. With the same story he worked an army tailor, of whom he ordered a uniform so gro tesque that it is marvellous he was not ex posed. It consisted of a light blue satin coat, a red satin waistcoat, dark blue knee breeches silver buckled shoes and white plumed cap. His card was considered more than ample security for the pay. On the birthday of the emperor he dressed himself in his uniform, leaving word that he would not return until late at night, since he was obliged to act as escort to the beautiful daughter of the Danish Minister at the ball given by the Swedish Plenipotentiary. Instead he visited a saloon, where he created a sensation in his peculiar rig. Countless jewellers, bankers and merchants were swindled by him. Up to the present the police have been unable to es tablish his identity and the prisoner takes his confinement philosophically. Belmont castle, near Dundee, Scotland, is burned, and many valuable paintings are destroyed. STEEPLECHASING Longman's Magazine. There is something so manly, so Englisl as we Englishmen are pleased to understani it, about the steeplechasing, that its deca dencc would be a matter of much regret. The nature of chasing has altered since our forefathers, mounted on their favorite hunters, had spins against each other in the course of a run, and were borne to magnify the excellence of their steeds, or perhaps the capacity of the steed's riders after dinner. By some such reflections as these it was that steeplechases were originated In former times. Matches grew up in the course of discussion about the events of the day's sport after hounds—and probably the older gener ation of sportsmen were more careful to ride after hounds instead of over them. Some times, indeed, the men could not wait till morning to" decide the question, for more than one case is on record where a parly of sportsmen have risen from the table and started off on a steeplechase forwith, putting white garments —nay one say shirt--—ever their coats, so that competitors might be vis ible, and a man who was down might not be jumped unnecessarily in the shadow. In these days steeples had something to do with steeplechases. Courses were not marked out; that came later, and the regulation "steeplechase course" of the present day later still. Some di.-tant point was fixed on —four, tive, eight, it might have been ten miles offCunueecessarily and cruelly severe chases of twice ten miles are recorded, aud to this the riders made the best of their way. The hunters that ran these races were, as regards the question of speed, very far in ferior to the chasers of to-day, which later are almost invariably thoroughbred; most be lievers in the past flatter themselves that there was wonderful superiority of endurance about the old-fashioned hunter,that is to say that he could "stay" at racing pace better than our horses, casts-off from the fact as they often are. Nevertheless, one cannot but regret the contests of a by-gone age, and admit that there was more of the real spirit of sport in them than in the fashionable Sandown chases of to-day—infinitely more. Pluck has in no way decreased. Not long since a good man who is still to the fore, Mr. Arthur Yates, broke his collar bone on the way to the post for a four-mile steeple chase, but took so little notice of the matter that he rode his race and was beaten only by a short head. On another occasion the same rider, after a bad fall, caught his horse by the tail, and getting somehow into the sad dle, won in a canter. The sound horseman ship of Mr. J. M. Richardson, the delicate handling of Mr. Arthur Coventry were prob ably never approached by the good men of half a century back; yet there was something about those old chases which calls for special admiration. So much more tax was laid on a man's re source. He had not to jump so many regu lation fences, but to find his way over the country. Discretion aided him, or want of discretion stopped him, as the case might be. He had grouud of all sorts to cross, and here his judgment was tested—how best to get over the plough; whether it was a good thing to ride a little out of the line where the going was heavy, to splash down that watery furrow; how to manage the ridges; whether to chance that boggy piece, and dash boldly through it or to cast about for firmer ground. To weigh all this, and to pick good places at the jumps—the country was a stiff one, but a man did not select ugly places for the sake of crossing them—showed that knowledge of the real sport which one cannot but admire. Chasing used to be nearly allied to hunt ing; now it is a sort of offshoot of racing. We have seen how chases were gotten up iv the hunting field, and how the consequence was a siruggle over so many miles of coun try—fair hunting country, as a matter of course—and generally "owners up." But this sort of thing did not last. A well-bred hunter doubtless held his own in most cases against a coarser bred animal; but the thor oughbred was superior to all. An owner, we will say, had a horse which disappointed him continually under Newmarket rules. "What's to be done with him J" the owner says, when, after having been fancied and backed, he has run third, an outsider win ning, with the first favorite second. "Well, sir, he's got a turn of speed, and he looks like jumping. He might win a hurdle race," his trainer suggests. "See what you can do with him, then," is the owner's reply, and the disappointing one is put into schooling for hurdles, or, if lie jumps well but is not very speedy, for the more advanced game. Thus steeplechasing, that is, steeplechas ing proper, declined. Courses sprang up, or, it should rather be said, were made up in all directions, and the clerks of these courses lived on their success, aud laid themselves out to secure as many horses as possible. It is natural, however regrettable, that they should have made their ' courses more and more easy, half-schooled chasers being more plentiful than tbe finished article, for it takes a long time to teach a steeplechaser his busi ness. Jumping fences in the hunting field is one thing, jumping them at racing pace is quite another. Most men who have had any ex perience of country life know how the hunter jumps. As he sees the fence before him, he usually shortens his stride, goes at it in a more collected form, pauses more or less as he takes off, and, having made his effort, slightly pauses again on landing. It is an interesting sight to see the young horse be ing taught the business in which it is hoped that he will shine. Here is our young one coming. He is to have his first gallop at rac ing pace over his training ground, having been through his course of schooling and ac quitted himself well. We will take our place by this fence and watch. The big brown is a well-known chaser, who wants a gallop; the gray mare is a hunter—a genuine hunter by profession—who is to be ruu at a local meet ing, and is let into the spin to see what pace she has; and the bright chestnut, on which the trainer himself has mounted—after see ing him carefully fitted with "boots" lest he should cut or overreach—is the novice. But the three have started off, and are near the first fence. They come to it in a line, but the brown is over first, and, moreover, is away first. More is not perceptible, ex cept that he evidently has the lead when they have landed, a lead soon wrested from him by the impetuous young one, whose rider does not violently haul at his head, but lets him go on for a little wty almost as he pleases and then quietly draws him back again to the others. They near the fence where we stand, and now we shall sec what they can do. The brown has taken hold of his bit, not to run away, but to lean on his rider's hand; the gray on the left is evidently galloping her hardest, though her companion is going easi ly within himself; the young one speeds along, his hind legs well under him, and, as they near the fence, he pricks up his ears to to take in, as it were, what he has to do. The thud of their hoofs on the soft turf is unchecked. Here they are! The brown, with no perceptible effort in rising, glides over the fencs. It is firmly made up, as he knows, and he jumps it, with nothing to spare, but safely enough. How he picks up his legs it is not easy to say, for the twigs seem to brush his girths as he crosses over. The pace is altogether to fast for the hunter. She is flurried, and gets right under the guard rail in front of the fence, and this she knocks with all four feet, so that at this jump, when by an effort she is safely over she pauses more than at the former. The youngster is across before her. He gives his head one shake; rushes at it, is well over, and off again on the other side so quickly that five or six strides beyond he is level with the brown, which rose a length in front of him. Let us canter across and take up a station at the spot where they are to finish. They near the last fence, and the young one is a couple of lengths ahead. Except that he is a little too eager, he comes over in grand style, taking off, indeed, six feet too soon, and jumping big, but none the less easily and cleverly. The brown slips over in his almost mechanical style, and then, for this is a race, his rider tries to overhaul the chestnut; but though the old horse answers to the call as best he can when the rider's whip is raised, the leader, hardly out of a canter, holds his own, his trainer trainer turning his head to see what the followers are doing. As for the hunter, she has lum bered up to the last fence, stopped almost dead from sheer distrees, gamely thrown her self over, landing auhow, and is coming on at the best pace she can r,aise, which is a very bad one, far in the rear. The young one promises, well. The gray is a hunter and not a race horse, which, to all intents and purposes, the chafer of to-day must be. Of late, for various reasons, steeplechasing has somewhat languished, but the spectacle is too picturesque and popular, the sport too characteristically English, to make reason able the fear that it can ever die out. Alfked E. T. Watson. MONROE'S ADMINISTRATION. TJte President's Tour Through the United States. Many presidents of the United States have served their country by remaining at Wash ington, -but probably James Monroe was the only one who accomplished great good by going on an excursion. Few battles in the revolution were of so much benefit to the nation as the journey which, in 1817, the President decided to undertake. There were two especial reasons for this beneficent re suit; the tour reconciled the people to the administration, and it reconciled the admin istration to what seemed the really alarming growth of the people. The fact that Monroe was not generally held to be a very great man enhanced the value of this expedition. He had been an unfortunate diplomatist, retrieving his fail ures by good luck; as a soldier he had blundered at Washington, and yet had re tained enough of confidence to be talked of as probable commander of a Canadian in vaston. All this was rather advantageous. It is sometimes a good thing when a ruler is not personally eminent enough to obscure his office. Iv such a case, what the man loses the office may gain. Wherever Washington went he was received as a father among grateful children; Adams had his admirers, Jefferson his adorers; Madison had carried through a war,which, if not successful, was at least a drawn game. All these, had they undertaken what play-actors call "starring in the provinces," would have been received as stars, not as officials. Their applauses would have beeu given to the individual, not the president. But when Monroe travelled, it was simply the Chief Magisirate of the na tion who met the eyes of men. He was not a star, but a member of the company, a stock actor, one of themselves. In the speeches With which lie was everywhere received there was very little said about his personality; it was the head of the natiou who was wel comed. Thus stripped of all individual tigc, the occasion appealed to every citizen. For" the first time the people of the United States met their Chief Magistrate as such, and felt that they were a nation. It was at the end of sixteen years of strife —political strife more bitter than can easily be paralleled in these calmer days. The re sult of this contest may in some respects have beeu doubtful, but on one point at least it was clear. It had extinguished the colonial theory of government, and substi tuted the national. Hamilton and the Fed eralists, with all their high qualities, had still disbelieved in all that lay beyond the domain of experience. But experience, as Coleridge said, is like the Stern-lights of a ship, illum ining only the track already passed over. Jefferson, with all his faults, had steered for the open sea. Madison's war had Impover ished the natiou, but had saved its self-re spect Henceforward, the American flag was that of an independent people— a peo ple ready to submit to nothing, even from England, which England would not tolerate in return. And it so happened that all tie immediate honor of this increased self-re spect belonged, or seemed to belong, to the party in power. Jefferson was the most pa cific of men, except Madisi n; both dreaded a standing army, aud shrank with reluct ance from a navy; yet the laurels of both arms of the service, such as they were, went to Madison and Jefferson. The Federalists, who had begged for a navy, and bad threat ened to raise an army on their own account, now got no credit for either. That party held, on the whole, the best educated, tin most high-minded, the most solvent part of the nation, yet it had been wrecked by its own want of faith. When in the Electoral College, Monroe had IS3 votes against 34 for Rufus King, it showed that the contest was at end, and that the nation was ready to be soothed. Monroe was precisely the seda tive to be applied, and his journey was the processor application. So much for the people; but there were al so solicitudes to be soothed among the na tion's statesmen. Not only did the people need to learn confidence iv their leaders, in the people. It was not that republican government itself was ou trial, but that its scale seemed so formidable. Nobody doubt ed that it was a thing available among a few mountain communities, like those of Switz erland. What even the Democratic states men of that day doubted —aud they had plen ty of reason for the doubt—was the possibili ty of applying sell-government to the length and breadth of a continent peopled by many millions of men. They were not dismayed by the principle, but by its application; not by the philosophy, but the geography. Washington himself, we know, was opposed to undertaking the ownership of the Missis sippi River; aud Monroe, when a member of the Virginia Convention, had argued against the adoption of the United States Constitu tion for geographical reasons "Consider." he said, "the territory lying between the At tantic Ocean and the Mississippi. Its extent far exceeds that of the German Empire. It is larger than any territory that ever was un der any one free government. It is too ex tensive to be governed but by a despotic monarchy." This was the view of James Monroe in 178S, at a time when he could have little dreamed of ever becoming Presi dent. He was heard with respect, for he had beeu one of (he Virginia committee-men who had transferred the northwestern lands to the United States government, and he was one of the few who had personally visited them. Yet lie had these fears, ami the worst of the alarm was that it had some foundation. But for the unexpected alliances of railway and telegraph, docs anybody believe that Maine, Louisiana, and California would to day form part of the same nation.'' In the mean time, while waiting for those mighty coadjutors, the journey of Mr. Monroe, by revealing the immense strength to which the national feeling had already grown. At any rate, after this experience he expressed no more solicitude. In his message on inter nal improvements, written rive years after his journey, he described tbe American sys tem of government as one "capable of ex pansion over a vast territory." Washington in Monroe's Administration. It was a period when the social etiquette of Washington was going through some changes; the population was growing larger, the classes were les3 distinct, the social dut ies of high officials more onerous. The diary of John Quincy Adams records cabi net meetings devoted to the momentous question who should make the first call, and who should be included in the official visit ing lists. Mrs. Monroe, without a cabinet council, made up her own mind to retrench some of those profuse civilities with which her predecessor had fatigued herself. Mrs. Madison, a large, heavy, kindly dame, had retired from office equally regretted by the poor of "Washington and by its high life; but she had gained this popularity at a severe cost. She had called on all conspicuous strangers; Mrs. Monroe intended to call on nobody. Mrs. Madison had been always ready for visitors when at home; her suc cessor proposed to receive nobody save at her regular levees. The ex-Presidentcss had presided at her husband's dinner parties and had invited the wives of all the men who were to be guests; Mrs. Monroe staid away from the dinuer parties, and so the wives were left at home. ' Add to this that her health was by no means strong, and it is plain that there was great ground for a spasm of unpopularity. She, however, outlived it, and re-established her social relations, gave fortnightly receptions, and won much ad miration, which she probably deserved. She was by birth a Miss Kortwright, of New- York, a niece of General Knox, and when she accompanied her husband ou his em bassy to Paris she had there been known as "la belle Americaine." She was pronounc ed by observers in later life to be "a most regal-looking lady," and her manners were described as "very gracious." At her final levee in the White House "her dress was superb black velvet; neck and arms bare, and beautifully formed; her hair in puffs, and dressed high on the head, and orna mented with white ostrich plumes; around her neck an elegant pearl necklace." Her two fair daughters—her only children, Mrs. Hay and Mrs. Gouverneur—assisted at this reception. Such was the hostess, but her drawing- rooms, by all contemporary accounts, afford ed a curious social medley. The well de fined gentry of the Revolutionary period was disappearing, and the higher average of dress aud manners had not begun to show itself— that higher average which has since been rapidly developed by tbe influence of rail roads and newspapers, joined with much foreign travel and a great increase In wealth. It was a period when John Randolph w&s allowed to come to dinner parties "in a rough coarse, short hunting coat, with small clothes and hoots, and over his boots a pair of coarse coating legging*; tied with strings around his legs." At Presidential receptions in the words of an t dors and consuls, members of congress and officers of the army and navy, greasy boots and silk stockings, Virginia -. and Yankee cowhides, al! mingled in ill-assorted and fantastic groups. Houses in Washington haa become much larger than formerly, and a similar expan sion has been seen in the scale of entertain ments. It is not uncommon to Bnd record! of evening parties at which five or six hun dred persons were present, Oiling five or six rooms. When John Quincy Adams, then secretary of state gave a reception to the newly arrived hero. General Andrew Jack son, eight rooms were opened, and thi-re were a thousand guests. It was regarded as the finest entertainment ever giv en iv Washington, and showed, In the "pin ion of Mr. Mills, of Massachusetts, then a congressman, "taste, elegance and ' on the part of Mrs. Adams: and else where he pronounces her "a v< ry pleasant and agreeable woman," but adds, "The secretary has no talent to entertain a mixed company, either by conversation or man ners.". Other agreeable houses were those of Mr. Bagot, the British minister, whose wife was a niece of the Duke of Wellington and M. Hydede Nenville, the French minis ter, each having a weekly reception, while the receptions at the White House took place once a fortnight At these entertainments they had music, cards and dancing—country dances, cotillions, with an occasi >nal Scotch reel, or sometimes the newly arrived waltz, as yet performed only by visitors from abr ad. It was noticed with some surprise that evin New England ladles wonld accept tbe hos pitalities of Mad-inn- de N. ;;viih- on Satur day evenings, and won] i dance on what they .hud been educated to regard as holy time. —T. W Hlgginson, iv Harper's Magazine for May. The Desertion of Gordon- London, April 23.—The Pall Mall Oat '.» continues to denounce the ministry for their abandonment of Gordon. It says: "Al though Berber Is the key to Khartoum, the ministry cannot resolv< that Berber must bo saved. Sycophants are luring the ministry to their doom." CITY ELE( TION. Etolioi Notice! 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