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DAILY "WEATHER BULLETIN.
Office of Chief Signal Officer, "Wash
ington, D. C., Sept. 11, 9 p.m.—Observations
taken at the same moment of time lit all sta
tions.
■ 11-3 Hi
Stations, if W'th'r Stations. a W'tta'r
Bt, Paul 64 Cloudy I Vicksburgr.. TojFair
LaCrosse... OOjThe't'g: Galveston.. 85|Clear
Bismarck... 57iCloudy New-Orleans '7 dear '
Ft. Garry... 60.Cloudy Shreveport 75 Clear
Mlnnedosa. .148 Fair Cincinnati.. 75 Clear
Moorheod... til Cloudy Memphis... 76 Cloudy
Qu'Appelle Nashville .. 74 Clear
St. Vincent.. Cl The't'g Cleveland.. 59 Clear
Ft. Assin'bn.lso Clear Chicago —55 Clear
Ft. Buford.. 54 Clear Dcs Moines. 70 Cloudy
Ft. Caster... 55 Fair St. Louis... 74 Clear
Helena tß|Clear Montreal.. 47 Clear
Huron 86 The't'g Quebec
Mod. Hat Washington 60 Cloudy
Dulutta 56 F jiriry Boston 54 Clear
Albany 5-' Clear New York.. CO. Clear
THE HOME REPORT.
Barometer, 29.72: thermometer, CO; rela
tive humidity, 90: wind, southeast; weather,
cloudy: amount of rainfall, 0.33; maximum
lOmeter, 68; minimum thermometer, 52;
daily range, 16.0. River—Observed height, 3.1;
rise In twenty-four hours, 0.0: fall in twenty
four hours, 0.0.
-Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. P. F. Lyons,
Signal Corps, U. S. A*
INDICATIONS.
Washington, Sept. Vi, 1 a. m.—For the
upper lake region, cloudy weather and
ruin, brisk and high southerly winds, becom
ing northerly; in northwestern portion higher
temperature, lower barometer. For the
upper Mississippi valley, cloudy weather,
rain, with local storms, strong southerly
winiis backing to northwesterly in northern
portion, higher, followed by lower tempera
ture. For the Missouri valley, cloudy weather
and rain, followed by clearing weather, wind
becoming cooler.
THE STOCK MARKET.
The stock market was dull yesterday, ex
cept for three or four of the stocks, and
prices were irregular and at times feverish.
The Vanderbilts wero heavy sellers, and the
opinion prevailed on the board, that the
Drexei-Murgan West Shore pool had been
unloading for several days. At the close of
the market a struggle was made to strengthen
op matters, which carried quotations to the
highest figures reached. Tho changes, how
ever, were Blight. Wheat was a little
stronger ail around.
NUBS OF THIS NEWS.
St. Paul's hotels aro crowded.
St. Paul day at the fair will occur Monday.
, Ex-Alderman Jerry McCarthy died from
:dropsy.
The Transcontinental pool will bo pro
longed.
The Catholic orphan fair in Minneapolis is
etill successful.
; John Pfaff shot himself dead in the St. Paul
municipal court room.
Another Tichborne claimant has turned up,
this time in California.
. A- Maryland minister at an elderly age
married a silver-haired maiden.
President Cleveland received yesterday,
End his callers were numerous.
Big B.earwas convicted of treason-felony at
Begina, but sentence was deferred.
Gen. Ho3ecrans has requested the resigna
tion of Republicans in his department.
The trial of the Marquis de Mores, charged
with murder, begins at Bismarck to-day.
Hoy. Moses A. Hopkins, born a slave in
Virginia, was appointed minister to Liberia.
About eleven thousand visitors passed the
pato at the fair grounds in spite of tho rain.
A son of a Russian nobleman committed
Buicide in New York on account of poverty.
The great yacht race was again declared off
and another start will be made this morning.
The Northwestern Traffic association has
withdrawn all Canadian rates and classifica
tions.
A plucky older in a North Carolina church
was beaten almost to death by a party of
loughs.
The Minnesota battery celebrates its second
reunion, in Minneapolis, with a banquet and
speeches.
Admiral Jouott will have to pay that little
wine bill at $400, as the treasury department
absolutely refuses.
Tho railroad commissioners will begin
suits to compel railroad companies to provide
stations according to law.
If tbe weather is pleasant to-day at Provi
dence, it is expected that Maud a will be
driven to beat her record.
Tho Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company
•wanted their war accounts with Uncle Sam
re-openod, but the latter refuses.
An immense amount of business in addi
tion to great reforms has been carried out in
the third auditor's oilice of tho treasury.
President Wright of the Freeport & St.
Paul thinks there is plenty of room for an
other trunk lino between Chicago and St
Paul.
A band of regulators has been organized in
Smith Carolina to break up miscegenation,
which is becoming quito numerous in that
state.
Paddy Ryan is greatly disappointed at Sul
livan's failure to meet him on the 26th inst.,
and brands him as a coward and afraid to
meet him.
It is now officially denied that any private
correspondence baa been carried on between
Emperor William of Germany and King Al
fonso of Spain.
Tho. firemen'!? tournament at Brainerd,
yicn., was sadly interfered with by rain A
banquet whs tendered the knights of the
nozzle in the evening:.
Mrs. Dr. E. It. Marshall, Mrs. Alexander
Paul and Mrs. Hicklin of Brown's Valley,
Minn., were drowned while attempting to
cross Traverse hike in a row-boat.
Counsel in the Magill murder case, on trial
at Bismarck, completed their arguments and
the case was given to tho Jury. Judsro Fran
els' charge is said to been an exceeding 1\- I
fine e11.,:-:. " j
The pkk to defining the boundary of the j
Afghan frontier, giving Zulnkar and :
MoruchaK to Afghanistan, has been *isrucd, i
and the Russian minister has left London, his '
work being completed,
Till: POSTPOXEMEHTT.
The weather cleric being of opinion i
that the best of the wine should always be I
reserved until ike last of the feast managed !
to mix up the elements so badly yesterday j
as to necessitate a postponement of .St, '
Paul's day at the state fair until later along
In the exhibition. ' The managers of the
fair association deemed if best to defer to ■
the- wisdom of the weather recorder, and j
accordingly announced a postponement of |
St. Paul's day until Monday next. The !
program •which had been arranged for yes
terday will be carried out ou Monday. Not
withstanding the inclemency of the weather
and the disappointment resulting from
the postponement between ten and twelve
thousand persous visited the fair grounds
during; the day. In the absence of racing
and the usual out-door attractions better
opportunity was givun to the visitors to ex
amine the exhibits in the various buildings.
There is no one who has gone through the
various departments and has witnessed the
inagnilicent displays but what has a desire
to go back and see them again. Indeed, so
great is the interest manifested in the va
rious exhibits, there would bo no difficulty
in converting the fair into an exposition,
and keeping it open for several weeks with
a large attendance every day, but for the
interference with other fairs, which have
been arranged to open immediately after
the close of the state fair.
The expectation was that yesterday would
have been the greatest day of the fair, and
so it would have been but for
the rain. The additional time which
has been given for preparation,
on account of the postponement, will only
enable the management to make Monday
a more attractive day than yesterday could
have been made, oven if the weather had
been fair. The enthusiasm which has in
spired visitors to the fair grounds has run
out like a contagion all over the state until
people who never before took an interest in
f-.xiis are now anxious to see this one. In
order to gratify this desire on the part of
the people of the state, and to place it
within the reach of every one to witness
the great attractions of next Moudy, the
various railroads running out of St. Paul,
with most commendable liberality, have
given the unprecedented low rates of 1
cent per mile for excursion tick ets, from
now until the close of the fair.
IMPORTANT DECISIOX.
An Important mortgage decision was re
cently rendered in the Le Sueur district
court in a case decided by Judge J. L.
McDonald of the Eighth district. The
facts upon which the decision was based
were as follows: On the sth day of May,
IS7T, Fkkdeiuck Dielixg and wife exe
cuted and delivered to Diedrick Tiiole
a mortgage on certain real estate to secure
the payment of $2,000, and the mortgage
was duly recorded. Subsequently an
agreement was made between Dielino
and Thole whereby the time for payment
and the rate of interest were changed and a
second mortgage was accordingly executed,
but over two months elapsed before the
said Thole had the second mortgage and a
satisfaction of said first mortgage recorded.
In the meantime, after the execution of
the second mortgage, but before it was
recorded, Dielixg in consideration of
82,000 borrowed from H. C. Key>'olds
and of SI,OOO borrowed from Bexjamix
V. Quackexbusii executed to said Rey
nolds and Quackenbush mortgages on
the same property previously mortgaged to
Tiiole. The Reyxolds and Quackex
busii mortgages were recorded, however,
before the Thole second mortgage.
When the loans were made by Reynolds
and Quackenbush their agent was in
formed by Dielixg that said first mort
gage from him to Diedbich Thole was
in fact satisfied, and that the notes and
debt which it was given to secure were
paid; and the said Dleling In support
of his statement to that effect produced
and exhibited to their ajrent said first mort
gage and notes from him to said Thole;
and the said agent of Reynolds and
QuACKENBUsn in making said two loans
to Dieling, and accepting mortgages to
secure the same, relied wholly upon the said
representation of said Dieling as to the
payment and satisfaction, and payment of
said first mortgage from him to said Thole.
The Reynolds and Quackexeush mort
gages were subsequently duly foreclosed
and the land sold by the sheriff. In a suit
brought by the representatives of Died
kich Thole against Reynolds, Quack
enbush and the purchaser under
the mortgage sale, Judge McDonald
held to the doctrine laid down in Jones on
Mortgages that the taking of the mortgage
and the substitution of another is not a dis
charge of the original debt, either as be
tween the parties or as to a subsequent
purchaser, even when the purchaser finds
the mortgage note in the hands of the
mortgagor, the mortgage remaining unsatis
fied of record, he has no right to presume
it was satisfied. After an elaborate discus
sion of principles relating to mortgages and
a citation of numerous authorities. Judge
McDonald concluded with the following
statement:
FIUHT Van THE SENATE.
The approaching fall cleftions are being
watched by the entire country from the fact
that upon iheir n-siilts will depend whether
or not the president is to have a majority
of both houses of congress at his back dur
ing nig administration. The house of rep
resentatives is safe enough, but it is iv the
senate where his administration will en
counter the most difficulty. The Republi
cans had a majority of four in the last sen
ate, and have since gained two Democratic
seats, previously occupied by Fahley of
California ami Slates of Oregon. These
two seats added to the majority they had in
the last session give the Republicans a ma
jority of eight at the next session. But if
the Democrats carry Virginia and
Ohio this fall by electing successors
to Maho.ve and Shek.man they will re
duce the Republican majority at the suc
ceeding session to four, and they recover
what they lost last spring. Including Ma
hone and Shkk.man there are sixteen Re
publican senators and eight Democrats
whose term? of office expire on the 4th of
March, ISS7. The places of all of these
are to be filled at the next session of their
respective state legislatures. The Demo
crats whose lerms expire are CAMDEN of
West Virginia, Cockrell of Missouri,
Fair of Nevada. Gokman of Mary
land. Jackson of Tennessee. Maxey
of Texas, Geo'boe of Mississippi, and
Jones of Florida. There is no reason
to doubt that all these seats will be filled
by Democrats. The Republican senator?
whose terms expire at tiie same time are
Aldbich of Rhode Island, Dawk? of
Massachasetts, Edmunds of Vermont, j
Hale of Maine, Harbison of Indiana,
Ha.WX.XT of Connecticut. MacMillan of
Minnesota. Mandeksox of Nebraska. Ma
honiv of Virginia. Mii.i.ei: of California,
Milleb of New York, Mitchell of Penn
sylvania, Sawteb of Wisconsin, Skwell
of New Jersey, Shebmah of Ohio, and
Vax Wtck of Nebraska.
In order to make a tie in the senate it
will be necessary for the Democrats to elect
j four oi these, It tsingnone (if their own. In case
I of a tie Vice President Uexdiucks would
j have tlif casting vote. The problem with
Democrats jnst now is to know how many
j Republican seats it is possible for them to
I enny. It is certain that they will gain one in
j Virginia, and it is confidently expected they
I will gain one from Ohio and oue in Indiana.
i That will leave but one more to secure.
The fighting chance for the legislature of
either New York, New Jersey or Counecti
j cut is most excellent, and there is a possi
bility that Minnesota may turn up on the
right side. The Kspublicans will make a
desperate effort to retain their hold on the
senate as it is their last hitch. But, with
the Democrats in control of the govern
ment, and the president giving the country
a first-class administration, there is no rea
son why he should not have a clear work-
THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE, SATURDAY MORHTtfG, SEPTEMBER 12, 1885:—SIXTEEN PAGES:
In* majority In both houses of congress for
at least the last half of his term.
A COMPROMISE PROPOSED] ,
The American government might com
promise with the Dominion In relation to
the abduction of the fugitive bauk president
by agreeing to waive all claim to Una, as an
American, If the Canadian government will
consent to the retention of Bkainekd by our
government. It is so seldom that we get
an opportunity to take a whack at an ab
sconding bank officer that Canada ought to
be as generous as Spain was with Boss
Tweed, and, waiving all rights involved,
allow us to k«ep Bank President Bkainerd
without any row about it. It is true Bkain
erd's arrest was not in strict and technical
accord with the provisions of international
treaties. After robbing his bank at
St. Albans, In Vermont, the presi
dent of the iustltutlon skipped out to
Canada. The detectives followed him to
Winnipeg, and in their anxiety to get the
j reward they inveigled the absconder into a
little confidence game whereby they were
enabled to get him into a close carriage and
drive him across the line. It Is said that
the Canadian authorities intend to take the
Mason and Slidell case as a precedent,
and will demand the return of Bhaixkrd.
What in the world the Canadian govern
ment wants with all our defaulting bank
officers is a mystery. The Chicago
Times says: "It may be a fact
that the Dominion government, in its
anxiety to add to its sparse popu
lation, la eager to invite migration from .
this country without reference to its moral .
qualities. It probably finds it profitable to
welcome a class- that, owing to the character
of its transactions, is well supplied with
money; but, nevertheless, the effect on the
people of the United States is not a gratify
ing one. The time will come when this
annoyance will be so great that a radical
remedy will have to be applied, which may
be to have no foreign country to the north
of us, but to extend our northern boundary
to the frozen ocean."
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THE NEW GUX.
It may be fortunate after all that the
United States has no navy. The London
Times tells of successful experiments with
a new gun which is intended to propel a
dynamite shell. If the experiments now
being made with the gun will prove it to be
a complete success there is no navy in the
world which could withstand its destructive
force. A flotilla of small wooden boats
each carrying one of those dynamite guns
would blow the finest steel armored navy
in the world into smithereens. This new
agency of annihilation would be most valu
able for coast defenses, and in view of the
defenseless nature of our seaboards
this country has reason to watch
the experiments now being made
with the gun with a great deal of interest.
So far as the experiments have been made
with tho new gun, the greatest difficuty to
be overcome is to prevent the shock of the
gun's explosion firing the shell charge and so
destroy the gunners rather than the enemy.
But this, it is thought, will be gradually
overcome. Speaking of recent successful
experiments, the Times says: "A shell fired
from an ordinary battery gun, and carrying
eleven pounds of dynamite, striking a ledge
of gneiss which formed the target, blew
out a cavity twenty feet in diame
ter and six feet deep. No fuse
is required, as the shell explodes by
concussion as it hits its mark; and it was
easy to perceive that a single shell of this
description striking the side of the most
solid iron-clad in existence near the water
line would be likely to send her to the bot -
torn. Thus far no accident is reported in the
experiments, which are to be, if they are
not by this time, repeated with guns of
much heavier calibre. But the calibre of
the gun is of secondary importance; its
range sfnd the capacity of the shell lor car
rying dynamite are the chief elements to
calculate on; and If a shell carrying 100
pounds of the explosive can be fired from
one of tha heavy guns now in use. the first
hit decides any conflict between single
ships, and one of our steel, unarmorod
cruisers will yield no quicker than the In
flexible to the shock of such an explosion."
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HUSH FREEDOM.
As was to be expected the English press
is pouring vials of wrath on the head of
Vice President He^uicus because he ad
dressed an Irish meeting in Indiana the
other day and spoke words of encourase
ment to the laborers in the cause of Irish
reform. Our English friends affect to see
a disposition on the part of our government
to favor the Irish cause, because the officer
second in rank under the government has
spoken in its favor. While the anathemas
of the English newspapers were expected
to be directed against the vice president, it
is a little surprising to see some of the lead
ing Republican newspapers of this country
joining in with the English press
in a crusade against Mr. llexdkicks.
In one notable instance a Republican organ
■ attempts to defend its attacks upon the
vice president behind an affected attach
ment for the Roman Catholic church, as- !
serting that because Mr. Pabnell is a j
Protestant Catholic Irishmen do not sympa
thize with his movement to free Ireland.
This is a gross slander on the nationality. i
Irishmen love Ireland, regardless of whether j
they are Catholics or Protestants. The |
point which the Republican organ strains
to cover its partisan zeal is overthrown by |
the action of Archbishop Walsh, who, no
longer ago than last week, declared in favor i
of the Parnei-lite program at Dublin, i
The archbishop has just obtained his miter ;
from the pope, and he blesses the Pah- '
nellite banner, though It is held aloft by !
a Protestant.
"Having- thus shown the antecedent equities
to be in favor of plaintiffs intestate, and that
Defendants QOACKENBUSHaud Reynolds ac
cepted their mortgages under such circum
stances as charged them with notice of all the
equities which Thole had, and that they took
them subject to the same, it follows that their
mortgages must be held to be subordi
nate to the claim and lieu of the second moit
| gag-e to Thole. I therefore find, as a con- j
| elusion of law, that tho plaintiff is entitled to ;
i have a judgment and decree herein that s^id '
j second Thole mortgage be a lien on said land ;
i and premised first and prior to said Refolds !
mortgage and tlie certificate of foreclosure j
thereof, and the said mortgage to Benjamin I
V. Quaci£EX3USH, and be paid out of the pro- I
ceeds of said premises first and prior to any
lieu thereon by said Reynolds mortgage or i
certificate of foreclosure thereof, or said
Benjamin' V. Quaokbhbush mortgage, aud
for his costs and disbursements herein."
«B. -
□ Mr. Clark, editor of the Gate City,was one
of the lowa delegates to the waterways con
vention recently held in this city. He seems
to have caught inspiration from Mr. Don
nelly. In speakiir; of the convention and
its work in his paper he says: "The Repub
licans said tho Democrats would steal the
treasury surplus. It was a campaign persi
flage of course, but we almost wish they
would do it soon. If they do not, it is doubt
ful whether there will bean honest man
left in theeouutry. The burden of cry at the
convention was to get hold of that $492,- !
000,000 in the treasury. Thieving is nor
mal to mankind and the best haven't got
much out of the habit." .'"-'}'•■ •
A convention of dancing: masters is now
in session in New York. A metropolitan ex
change expresses the hope that the conven
tion will frown upon the introduction of tho
can-can into the back parlor, and will stimu
late a fresh desire in the breasts of our sedate
young ladies to kick up their heels in a pood
old fashioned jig.
Thz»e is a good deal of fun In a Virginia
political campaign when it is hot. The present
contest is getting to white heat, as is indi
cated by the following communication fro m
ex-Congregsmaa Brady to the editor of the
Petersburg Enterprise: "You are a black
hearted villain, a notorious liar, a vile I slan
derer, a mangy cur, a contemptible coward
and sooundrol. Only yoursolf, the prince of
liars and meanest of Slanderers, could havo
manufactured so many outrageous uucl ma
licious falsehoods contained in tuo Inclosed
editorial from your blackmailing sheet of the
6th inst. In falsely oharariny me with felo
nious crlmos you show yourself to be a black
hearted, murderous villain."
Thursday's Globe clipped an editorial
paragraph from the Minneapolis Tribune call-
Ing the attention of the public to the fact that
tho able railroad editorials of the Pioneer
Press were stolen bodily from tho Eveningl
Post, and by mistake the article was credited
to the Chicago Tribune. Tho Globe tenders
an apology to our Minneapolis contemporary
for tho mistake in failing to (five it the proper
credit. The mistake did not rob the article of
its truthfulness nor of tho pithiness with which
it was expressed. The two Tribunes —tho
Chicago and the Minneapolis— such ex
cellout ways of presenting torse truths that it
is no discredit to bo mistaken one for the
other.
Mr. Stone, tho new collector of customs at
Chicago, was the only applicant for tho
position who did not ha%o tho indorsement
of some member of congress. Tho administra
tion seems to be runningl itself without the aid
of congressmen. It is possible, however, that
by the time the administration runs through
one term of congress, and gets left on somo
important measures, which are very uoar tho
administration heart, congressmen will have
more intiuence than they have at this ' writ
ins.
Kidnap Is tho name of the new diplomatic
Kuino now being: played between Canada and
the United States. So far, Canada has tho
best score ; but if the United States should
some day kidnap the whole of Canada the
gamo will be eudod.
The Chicago Tribune promises Mrs. Mul
ligan that if the Republicans ever come
into power she will not be disturbed in her
office. Mrs. Mulligan would do well to
clip the paragraph and paste it in her scrap
book.
A revival in Virginia was broken up by a
dog who ate tho sacrament bread. The min
ister kicked the dog out of church, and then
the owner of the dog performed the same
pious office for the minister.
An Eastern paper speaks of the Demo
cratic candidate for governor in Ohio as
"George W. Hoadlv." Gov. lloadly has
no middle name, but will have one after elec
tion. It will be Eli.
"The Globe is the best newspaper In the
Northwest. Chicago can't beat it," was the
concession made by an Illinois gentleman to
a Minnesota gentleman on the fair grounds
yesterday.
Mr. Blaise is again at work on his book.
Ho expects to have it ready by the next elec
tion.
Cleveland. Must Marry.
Albuquerque Journal.
If Mr. Cleveland wants a second term he
will have to marry. The American people
may forgive celibacy to a president during his
first term in consideration of his other good
qualities, but they have too deep a reverence
for the institution of matrimony, not only as
a reliable means for perpetuating presidential
virtues in a second generation, but as tho
favorite and popular method of absorbing 1 our
growing surplus of unmarried females, to
ever confer the honor of the chiof magistracy
a second time upon a man who shows himself
so brutally obtuse to the charms of his coun
trywomen and their favorite institution. We
sincerely trust that our chief magistrate has
caught something besides a few nsh and a bad
cold In the Adirondacks,and that the outcome
of the affair will be that Miss Cleveland must
pack her trunks and resign her position as
mistress of tho White house. That place be
longs to a married woman who loves babies
better than books.
A Crisis in Minnesota Affairs.
Chicago News.
Tho Hon. Ignatius Donnelly's appearance
in the national waterways convention reminds
us that the Hon. Ignatius Donnelly promised
to give the public Irrefutable evidence that
Shakespeare did not write the Shakespeare
plays. Isn't it about time for Ignatius to
come to the front with his proofs? Unless
Ignatius produces his documents pretty soon
we will begin to think that Mark Dunnell
wrote "Hamlet" and "The Passionate Pil
grim."
Could for ConffreNs.
St. Peter Tribune.
rlf the Republicans of the First congres
sional district should, when the proper time
arrives, nominate Col. O. B. Gould to succeed
Mllo White, as member of congress, they
would make no mistake. Col. Gould is able,
upright, clean-handed. He is a stalwart Re
publican, true- as the needlo to the pole, a
splendid lawyer, a good'speaker and a first
class man generally.
VlJlard and. the Northern Pacific.
St. Cloud Times.
There are rumors that Henry Yillard may
return to the presidency of the Northern Pa
cific. Such a consummation would be glad
news to the people of tho Northern Pacific
country, and they would joyfully hail his re
turn.
Where They Came From.
Chicago Tribune.
The Mugwumps were sired by George
William Curtis and damned by the Democ
racy.
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Miners Organizing.
Indianapolis, Sept. 11. —In the na
tional convention of miners to-day, -resolu
tions were adopted favoring the total aboli
tion of the system of contracting for con
vict labor, when it is brought in competi
tion with free labor, and the adoption of
! two weeks' pay and the abolition of the
truck system of its forms. It was resolved
to secure to members of the National Feder
ation of Miners, the name of the organization
1 formed, justice and equity in every legiti
mate way. A general suspension of mining
coal in the United States and territories for
| one week, at a date as early as possible,
j was approved. A recommendation was
adopted to the effect that on all general
questions arising within the jurisdiction of
the association, ten days be given miners,
provided operators grant the same courtesy
to them. The principles of arbitration
were favored, in preference to strikes, and
following this a resolution to abolish the
free turn system in all the states and terri
tories was adopted.
Yield of Michigan Crops.
Lapsing. Mich.. Sept. 11. —The Sep
tember crop report of the secretary of state
| reports the total number of acres of wheat
! threshed In Michigan as 183,738, and a
; total yield of 3,815,029, or an average of
! 20 4-5 bushels to the acre. The yield per
| acre in the Southern counties is a tiifleover
j one bushel and in the Northern counties
! nearly one and three-quarters greater than
any previous year. Careful estimates
places the total probable yield at 31,
--249.349 bushels, or 4.842,345 in excess
of tho previous official estimate. Of oats,
53.812 acres have been threshed, yielding
1,913,800 bushels, or an average of a trifle
over 34 bushels per acre. The 3,500 acres"
of barley threshed yield 93.121 bushels.
Owing to cold weather, corn has made but
slow progress toward maturity. Unless the
weather in September is exceptionally fa
vorable, there is little hope that the crop in
all parts of the state will fully ripen. The
condition of corn is reported as 93 per cent.
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Disconsolate Creditors. *
Buffalo, N. V., Sept. 11.—The sched
ules in the assignment of Martin & Co.,
leather dealers, show liabilities 9266,691,
J nominal assets 926,529, actual assets §5,9G3.
! The creditors include a number of banks
here and in New York, and are mostly un
secured. The largest claim unsecured is
that of Henry Martin, for $172,499, for
money loaned.
Wonderful Time.
Sacramento. Cal., Sept. —In the
Del Paso stake race for all ages to-day at
Agricultural park, Neilson ran three-quar
ters of a mile in 1:13^, the fastest time
ever made on the Pacific coast and within
half a second of the fastest time in the
world.
Oscar Ayers, a young man 19 or 20 years of
age and engaged in the drug business, has
disappeared from Morrison,-111., with $5,000
the firm's money, for parts unknown. His
people reside in Dixon, 111., and are very
highly respected.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Some Great Eeforms Accomplished in the
Auditor's Office of the Treasury
Department.
Tammany Hall Declares Against a Perma
nent Officeholding Class in
This Country.
The President's Reception Dny--Ad
ralral Jouett Must Pay His Lit
tle Wine Bill Himself.
Gen. Rosecrans Making Room For
Rei'orm Democrats—Appoint
ments--Capitul Notes.
A Business Administration.
Washington, Sept. 11.— John S.
Williams, third auditor of the treasury, to
day addressed a letter to tho secretary of
the treasury, stating that on the first day
of May last, when he assumed the duties of
third auditor, it was notorious that the
business of the office was largely in arrears,
the plea being that the clerical force was
not sufficient for the prompt dispatch of
tiie work. The pension division was nearly
a year behind in the examination and settle
ment of accounts of pensions, involving the
sum of $75,987,885. The miscellaneous
claims against the government including
state war claims amounted to $15,587,774.
Some of the work in the collections divi
sions was over two years in arrears. in
the house claim division over 11,000 claims
were pending and unsettled, involving
716,390. The unsettled accounts of
army quartermasters and commissary
amounted to 85,458,308, The unsettled
accounts of engineers amounted to $5,550,
--826, making a grand total of $104,527,017.
In the short space of four months, ending
on the 31st of August, and without increas
ing the clerical force, Auditor Williams
says the accounts of all the
PENSION AGENTS
have been examined and settled up to the
first of June, and the clerks in the division
are now examining and settling the ac
counts of the last quarter, which is current
work, as showing the improvement in the
working capacity of the clerks in that divi
sion. He says that during the months of
May, June, July and August of ISS4 there
was examined and settled accounts ag
gregating $16,223,580. For the correspond
ing four months of 1885 tho same clerks,
with perhaps three or four exceptions, ex
amined and settled $75,105,778. These
figures make their own comment.
In the house claims division 613 claims have
been adjusted or rejected, involving $70,275,
besides carrying on a large amount of
carrespondence necessary to the proper dis
posal of the ' remaining cases. During the
same period of 1884 200 cases were disposed
of, involving $27,774. The accounts of the
quartermasters, commissioners aud en
gineers are up as far as it is possible for
them to be. and the clerks in these divisions
are now engaged in current work. The
claims division, the collections division and
the house claims division are the only ones
in arrears, and the character of the work
necessarily precludes the possibility of its
being
DONE PROMPTLY,
This is explained in the fact that in al
most every case information is required
from other offices and outside sources which
often involves long delay. Auditor Will
iams says it is due to the clerks in the office
to-day, that with few exceptions, since the
present auditor's incumbrance, they have
been faithful and efficient. Their improve
ment in this respect is simply wonderful. As
a consequence a large amount of work has
been performed, so that on the whole the
business is in a very satisfactory condition.
The auditor says that in this con
nection it may be stated that,
since the 26th day of March there
appears to have been an astonishing im
provement in the health of the clerks.
Last year, with 150 clerks, there were 1,696
sick days. To-day the auditor knows of
only two clerks who are absent on sick
leave. With the result of the improved
condition of the office, in the fact that
greater efficiency was obtained, the third
auditor recommends a reduction of the
clerical force. The law now provides for
158 clerks. There are six vacancies
caused by resignation, four of which have
not been filled. The services of twelve
more clerks can be dispensed with without
injury to the public service, making a total
reduction of sixteen clerks.
Tammany Principles Declared.
New York, Sept. 11.— Tammany
hall general committee at its meeting to
night passed resolutions relating to civil
service reform, demanding from state
aud federal authorities the com
plete redemption of the pledges
made by the Democratic party at the late
presidential election to secure to the people
of the state and nation an efficient, capable
and honest public service; protesting
against any legislative or administra
tive measures which may tend to create a.
permanent office-holding class in the
country; denouncing all attempts to grant a
life tenure of office to any one body of
public servants as the first step
towards the subversion of those
doctrines of equality which have been
the safeguard of the Republic; declaring
that the appointments to office should be
made on the untrammeled and undivided
responsibility of public officers, chosen by
the people for that purpose and
answerable to their custituents for
the manner in which they have
discharged their trusts; that the creation
of irresponsible boards or commissioners
vested with the authority to control or in
terfere with the exercise of the powers of
appointment by elective officers is an
abridgement of the powers conferred
on the chosen servants of the people, and
condemning it as unwarrantable Invasion
of public rights, and an undemocratic and
indefensible restriction of the vigor and
effect of true suffrage.
Counsel Creswell Very mad.
Washington, Sept. 11.—In the contro
versy raised by the accounting officers of
the treasury in regard to the disbursement
of the court of Alabama claims and the au
thority under which they were made, a
breezy correspondence has been started with
First Comptroller Dunham by ex-
Senator C res well, counsel for
the United States before the
court, whose salary Mr. Dunham has sus
pended. Mr. Cressnell refers with surprise
to certain statements given out to news
papers with respect to his official salary and
position. He says to the first comptroller:
"Knowing you to be the highest accounting
officer of the government, lam unwilling
to suppose, in fact I cannot believe that
these articles eminated from you. I have
received no official communication from
you whatever upon the subject. I do not
know from any official source whether my
salary has been stopped or not. I know I
have not received it for the month of Au
gust. If you have refused to pass it
you have left me completely in the dark
as to the reason which have
appeared to you sufficient to justify such ac
tion. Referring io the section in the orig
inal act establssliing the court which pro
vided that he, as counsel, should receive
such reasonable allowance, to be apportioned
in each claim, as might be approved by the j
court. Mr. Croswell says:
AN HONEST" EFFORT
was made by the former court to apply this
section, but it was found impracticable and
he accordingly went on with his duties
for eight months without any pay.
until lie could lay . the matter be
fore congress and have some fixed salary
prescribed by law. He spreads upon his
letter copious extracts from the debates in
congress when this matter was under dis
cussion, showing an almost unanimous
opinion that his compensation ought
to be by a fixed salary. He shows that
finally, on motion of Senator (now
secretary) S. Bayard. $8,000 was agreed
upon. Thereupon Mr. Creswell says :
Observe what Mr. Bayard said : I propose
to put that counsel on a level with the
Attorney Genlrad of the United States—a
cabinet officer—and to pay him a salary of
SB,OOO, •which, it seems to me, is enough
for his services. This difference between
Mr. Bayard on the one side and his
brother senators who agreed with him and
yourself on the other, is irreconciliable. and
the inference is inevitable either that Sena
tor Bayard and his coufreres did
not know the meaning of their
own languages, Comptroller Durham is in
error. Mr. CressweU goes on to say that
the former court adopted in open court an
order fixing his salary at 000 a year.
Mr. Cresswcll says that if the fee system
were returned to his compensation would
not be diminished, and argues that under
the regular rules of practice the number of
cases disposed of during the last three years
would give him fees to the amount of $78,
--300, with about as much more in miner
cases, and that the cases yet to be heard
would add $25,000 more.
After tin; Tichborne Fortune.
Special to the Globe.
Washington, Sept. 11. —There is a new
Tichborne claimant. He lives in Califor
nia, and served in the Federal army and
navy daring the late war. He has filed an
application for a pension, on account of
wounds received while in the army. He
has a friend in town, who says with the
money which he hopes to obtain as arrears
of pension (some $2,000 or $2,500) he ex
pects to establish the claim that he is Sir
Roger Tichborne. At the request of this
friend the claimant's present name and ad
dress are withheld. The story the claimant
tells is that on his way to Australia, after
he left home, he was shipwrecked on an ;
island, from which a passing ship
took him and his : companions
to San Francisco. Thence he drifted
to New York, but did not attempt to go to
England, being half unwilling and half
ashamed to go home. At the breaking out
of the war he enlisted under an assumed
name in the navy. As a man of intelli
gence and unusual refinement he was well
regarded by all the officers, except for some
reason the captain of the ship. The latter
treated him so badly that he deserted. lie
then married in New York a respectable,
but uneducated girl of the lower class.
Feeling still more estranged from his home
he again enlisted, this time in the army and
under another assumed name, which lie
still bears. He was twice wounded, all the
fingers of his left hand were shot away and
he was shot In the body. The result of his
wounds was a temporary abberration of the
mind, during which he wandered back to
New York, and the war over he
could not return to his regiment, so
he stands a technical deserter
from the army. After the war he went with
his wife to California, where he hired out
as a clay laborer on tne ranches in Southern
California, and has remained there ever
since. He is now a skilled laborer and has
charge of work on a certain ranch. He had
given up all idea of ever returning to Eng
land. His health was shaken, his habits
had changed, his wife and his poverty were
barriers, but a few months ago a lady vis
iting at the ranche learned his secret and
urged him to go to England and try to es
tablish his identity. He said even If no
other reason prevented him. his poverty
was a bar. Then she asked him whether he
had ever procured a pension, and when she
learned that he had not urged him to do so,
and to use the money to establish his claims
to theTihborne title. This he said lie would
do.
No Wine Money Allowed.
Washington, Sept. 11.—Second Comp
troller Maynard has written a reply to Rear
Admiral in regard to the item of
$400 paid for the entertainment of visitors
to the flag-ship Tenuesee at :the New Or
leans exposition, in which ho reviews the
whole question in the light of the points
raised by the admiral in defense of the ex
penditure. He takes issue with the admiral
on the point that the expenditure could
properly be made from the naval contingent
fund, and quotes from a decision made by
Att. Gen. Devens, "that the words
'contingent expenses,' as used in the
appropriation acts, means such incidental
casual expenses as are necessary, or at
least appropriate and convenient in order to
aid the performance of the duties required
by the department or the office for which
the appropriation is made." The comp
troller says he has been unable to find any
law which requires either the navy depart
ment or any officer of the navy to entertain
public officials at the expense of the govern
ment, and adds Jliat he cannot assent to the
admiral's statement that it has been the
practice of the accounting officer to allow
such disbursements, under the head of con
tingent or extraordinary expenses, but what
ever the practice in this respect may have
been he says it will be conceded that if un
lawful it cannot be too promptly discon
tinued. The comptroller adds that the
records of the treasury department will bear
him out in the statement that from time
irameniorable it has been the practice where
a public officer had received money belong
ing to the government, to which he was for
any reason entitled, to make a stoppage in
his pay account until the amount illegally
received has been made good. In closing
the comptroller suggests that the admiral
bring suit for the portion of his pay with
held, and so test the whole question.
An Aristocratic Lady Clerk.
Special to the Globe.
Washington, Sept. 11.—The popular
idea that government clerks do not ac
cuuiulute anything is probably the correct
one as a whole, but there are exceptions.
A lady was driving along Capital hill a day
or two ago, when the senate postoffice
wagon ran into the carriage smashing a
wheel, overturning the carriage and tearing
the dress off the lady. "We will have
your carriage repaired, madam," said the
driver of the wagon as politely as possible.
"No you won't, she said, "It was
a brand new carriage, and I
don't propose to accept of any
patched up affair in its place. The govern
ment will buy me a new one or 1 will know
the reason. "Will you give us your ad
dress?" was the humble inquiry of the sen-
I ate official, expecting it would be in some
| of the fashionable quarters of the north
i western section of the city. ' 'The pension
I office," she blandly replied. "1 am a clerk
] there and am just on my way from my
largo farm outside the city to my desk
there. I will just drive down there and re
port the accident and then go homo for the
day," and so she did. She has a fine, large
farm outside the city where she resides in
fine style, driving in every morning and out
every evening with her handsome team and
carriage.
Surgeon General Hamilton.
Special to the Globe.
Washington, Sept. Surgeon Gen
eral Hamilton formerly lived in Carlinville,
111., and is well known In St. Louis. He
rose to his present position at the head of
the Marine hospital service through the
grades, and is recognized as an efficient
officer. The only reason offered for a
change is the pressure of Democrats to get
in. It is by no means certain yet that Dr.
Hamilton will be removed, but Vice Presi
dent Hendricks has announced a candidate
in Dr. Matthews of Louisville,
Kv., who is also indorsed by the Kentucky
senators. Ex-Senator McDonald and
William English of Indianapolis have a
candidate in the person of Dr. Walling, a
son-in-law of Mr. English. Vice President
Hendricks and ex-Senator McDonald have
personally appealed to the president in be
half of their respective candidates. The
sentiment in the service is strongly against
filling this position otherwise than by pro
motion. Officers of the chambers of com
merce and prominent steamship and other
shipping interests of various cities have
protested against Dr. Hamilton's removal.
Gates of Winsicubo2OMlii»h.
Special to the Globe.
Washington, Sept. 11.—A good deal of
interest is felt, herein the result of the
opening of the new reservoir at the head of
the Mississippi river. The gates of Win
neabogoshish reservoir were opened the
other day for the first time. This is the
first effort made in this country to store up
water for the benefit of navigation in the
dry season. It is a system which has been
practiced in Europe for years, to build
great reservoirs at the head waters of rivers,
letting them fill in the rainy seasons and
then gradually letting water out
when the dry season came.
Some years ago the system was
adopted at the head of the river which sup
plies the power for the Loweil, Mass., fac
tories, and in the amount of power thus
stored up against this dry season was
something great. The system there has
proven a great success, as it has in Europe.
The reservoirs at the head of the Mississippi
are, however, the first constructed in this
country for the purpose of furnishing addi
tional water for navigation, and the result
of their first opening is looked for with
much interest.
Appointments.
Washington, Sept. 11.—Rev. Moses A.
Hopkins of North Carolina was appointed
to be minister resident and consul general
of the United States to Liberia. Ho wag
born a slave in Washington county, Va.,
and after gaining his freedom pursued a
course of study and was graduated at Lin
coln university. Pennsylvania, in the class
v 1874, and also graduated at the Auburn,
a. ST., _ Presbyterian theological seminary.
in addition to his services as a Presbyterian
clergyman, he has been engaged in educa
tional pursuits and was the principal of the
state colored normal school at Franklinton,
«. <--„ lor several years. He was highly
recommended for the position by the gov
ernor and other officials of North Carolina,
and by other men of prominence including
a good many clergymen and representative
colored men of the country.
Irwin Dugan was appointed to be super
vising Inspector of steam vessels for the
Sixth district.
Moses A. Hoskins of North Carolina to
be minister resident and consul general of
the United States to Liberia; C. W. Dugan
to be supervising Inspector of steam vessels
for the Sixth district.
Henry W. Gilbert, appointed consul at
Triest, lives in Orange county, New York,
and was indorsed by ex-secretary of state,
John Bigelow, ex-treasurer, JamesMackln,
and others. James W. Ross, appointed
consul at Three Rivers, Canada, is a resi
dent of Washington county, New York.
A Company'^ Claim* Nipped.
Washington, Sept. 11. —The second
comptroller • of the treasury has made a
decision denying the motion of the council
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company
that the accounts of that company for the
general transportation of soldiers and sup
plies during the civil war, be reopened.
The application was based on the ground
that the company was subjected to extra
ordinary dangers and expense in carrying
the business of the government, and was
therefore entitled to a more liberal compen
sation than was allowed at the time the
accounts were settled. The comptroller
refused to reopen the accounts for the rea
son that they had been settled and because
no new evidence was presented to justify
such a course. He also made the point
that the property of the company instead
of being jeopardized was in fact protected
thereby.
Hennepin Canal Scheme.
Special to the Globe.
Washington, Sept. 11.—Representative
Murphy of lowa says the people of his
state are entirely pleased with President
Cleveland's course. "I have heard," he
continued, "of dissatisfaction within the
party, but I have not been able to locate it
in my intercourse with the people of lowa
Northwest. The masses of the people of
all parties are convinced of the president's
integrity and his firm purpose
to give them good government upon
an economical basis, and they are
satisfied. Upon being asked if he did not
have some object in view in coming here, the
judge replied that his only purpose was to
advance the interests of the llenncpin canal,
which, he added, "is the question of most
vital interest in the Northwest."
3lcDona!d'!i Views.
Special to the Globe.
Wvshington, Sept. 11.—Ex-Senator
McDonald is at the Riggs house. Upon
being asked as to the probable result in Ohio
and what the Indiana Democrats thought
of the administration he replied: "I be
lieve that the chances in Ohio at present
favor Hoadly's election. The administra
tion is moving along smoothly. The In
diana Democrats, nine out of ten of them I
might say, are opposed to the civil service
but, but they understand that it is a law
and that the president is compelled to carry
it out. The people in my state are satis
lied with the circumspection with which
the president has been moving in the mat
ter of removals and appointments."
Make Room for Reformers.
Washington, Sept. 11. —Gen. Rosen
crans, register of the treasury, has asked
for the resignation of William P. Titcomb,
assistant register, and Hartwell Jeunison,
Charles Mull, Arthur Hendricks, J. H.
Beatty and N. B. Walker, chief of divisions
in the register's office. The resignations
are demanded, the register says, so as to
secure unbiased judgment and cordial co
operation in any changes that may be nec
essary for the good of the public service.
The register has found that the officials
whose resignations he has asked are not in
sympathy with him in the reforms which he
proposes in his offices, and for that reason
desires to . replace them with men upoD
whom he can rely.
Who Was the Youugeit Soldier?
Washington, Sept. 11.—A telegram
was recently sent from Columbus, 0., say
ing that Mr. Herbert Fay of that city had
been notified by the war department that
the records show that he was the youngest
man enlisted in the Union army in any oi
the states during the Rebellion. It is stated
at the war department that no statement
of tho nature mentioned has ever beenmado
by the department and no information on
the subject has ever been compiled from
the records of the war department. Offi
cials say that as it would involve the exam
ination of the records of nearly three million
men to enable the department to make such
a statement with any degree of accuracy,
and as nothing would bo benefited to the
public service by the compilation of such in
formation the probability is that the question
of who was the youngest soldier will never
be definitely settled.
Cominc "Wheat Report.
Washington, Sept. 11.—The Septem
ber report of the department of agriculture,
now in press, contains an article showing
the production, consumption and distribu
tion of wheat in the United States in eight
years past, and others demonstrating the
excess of commercial estimates of the Pa
cific coast wheat productions and the incom
pleteness of assessor's returns of Western
states as to the area and product.
The President Receives.
Washington, Sept. lI.—To-day was 8
very busy day at the White house and the
president received a larger number of visit
ors than on any day since his return.
Among the prominent callers were Secre
tary Bayard, Assistant Secretary Porter and
ex-Senator McDonald. The president held
a public reception in the East room in the
, afternoon, lasting nearly an hour.
Capital Chips.
Secretary Bayard was informed to-day by
consul that cholera is increasing In Palermo
and Sicily generally.
Inspector General Nelson H. Davis will bo
placed on the retired list the 20th inst. His
successor it is understood will bo either Gen.
Itojjer Jones or Gen. A. Bond. The former ia
the senior officer, but the latter is euid to
have the more brilliant record and stronger
indorsements. .. czi
A Dunce on the Board of Trade.
Chicago, Sept. 11.—Thirty-six Bad
River and Redcliff Indians visited the board
of trade to-day, reaching the gallery a few
minutes before the close of the afternoon
session. The appearance of the fantastic
combination of garb was greeted with
shouts rivaling in vigor their own war
whoops. The enthusiasm so excited the
red men that on the spur of the
moment a native dance was indulged in.
Instantly a most ludicrous scene was in
augurated, there being given in the wheat
pit an imitation Indian dance.into the spirit
of which all the traders heartily entered.
There was a wild time for five times or so,
and then the gong sounded for the close and
the Indians filed from the gallery.
Can't Keep Them Apart.
Special to tho Globe.
Waco, Tex., Sept. 11.— morning •
youth of 18 and a little miss of 13 applied
to the authorities for license to marry.
They were refused, whereupon it trans
pired that the kids were from
Con-yell county, and had been
refused a license there. At first
the young man refused to give his
name, but upon reflection and being told
that it was no hanging matter said his
name was Jeff Bugg and the girl's Louetta
Elm. The sheriff sent the young miss
home in care of a deputy and Jeff 'con
cluded to return also, but says all the sher
, iffs in America can't keep them apart.