Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-28
STILLW AFTER NEWS.

WIFI fadt fof Dufant, wheeler % 20.
Eight additional men were placed on the
police force during the day of the circus.
Our sidewalks prese mt vast improvement
after The repairs which have been made.
Twenty-four head of cattle for Isaac
Staples arrived yesterday from Minneapolis.
Wheat quotations: Old wheat, No. 1,
s1.o5; Nsw, No. /, q and 3, respectively,
IS, 80 and 10 cents.
John Bunnan and Nelson Miller were over
yesterday surveying the proposed extension
of the transfer line
Hersey, Bean g. Browns mill shut down
at o'clock yesterday, in order to give the
men an opportunity to see the circus.
Joseph staerkel, arrested for wife beating,
was brought before Judge Norgord yester-
day, and fined $35 and costs, or thirty-eight
| days on the stone pile.
G. B. Knapp Yesterday Brought down lis
bushels Of wheat for the Saltwater mills,
fifty sacks of -four for Minneapolis. and
thirty passengers.
One of the most interesting features at
one time on Main street yesterday was Bill
Spencer selling tickets at the door of a side
show. Bill was as voiubie as though he was
raised to it,
Several COWS have been lost lately by per
sons living in this vicinity. One man Mon
day night traced his COW within six miles OF
st. Paul, and then lost track of her. man
1aa1jpcy a 70 he
had been seen going in the direction of St
Paul, but he want to be foAna.
The ,,,oaensouus day has passed. Fore
paugh has come and gone, and everything
has settled into its original quiet, During
the parade yesterday Main street was
thronged with pushing, jostling humanity
eager to see the procession. The perform
ance in the afternoon was well attended
people coming from many miles in the coun-
try to see the great show. The acting was
excellent, and everyone appeared 10 be well
satisfied.
HAYES CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION
IN, Inte,.cieto Wst1 cih.apiev Foste, on th<
Matter.
Washington Dispatch to New York Graphic.
Representative Charles Foster is here as
the Acting Secretary Of the Republican Con
gressional committee, in the absence of Mr.
Gofham, who has gone to the mountains fol
a few weeks rest. Mr.. Foster is one of the
warmest and most intimate friends President
Hayes has in Congress, and was member
OF the committee on finance Who called
| upon the President for q subscription to the
| campaign fund.- so I thought would inter.
view him in regard to the matter. At first
he declined to talk about the Subject, saving
81 don't want to be interviewed about this
matter, out will say this much, that the
President, when Senator Dorsey, Mr.. Hub
bell and myself called upon him, two o.
three months ago, said that he was not only
willing, but anxious, to contribute, and
thought that most of the office-holders
throughout the country felt this same wav
| He has encouraged, subscriptions, although
you know he is down on political assess
4 ments. don't suppose he has made regu.
lar misunderstanding his name down in
the book, naean-but he has given, or will
| give as much, as any of his predecessors
"How has he done this?' said I. "Has
he given it to certain of his friends, who
are running for Congress, or has his eontri
button gone into the committee treasury like
the contributions OF otherss''
"Whe dc you mean BY his friends who
are running for Congress?'' asked Mr.. Eos
ter in reply.
"Gov. Young, Mckinley or Keifer."
ooh! shouldn't think he had sent any
money to Tom Young. don't believe he
1 has done that, and as for Keifer, he has
5000 majority in his district, and I dom
think he needs any help" and Mr.. Foster
paused.
elbow about McKinleyg''
"Well, Mckinley is q great friend of the
President, and has close district. He viii
| have hard fight to make it. shouldn't
wonder il the President tried to help hin
OUT
| .sBut you do not say positively that the
President has contributed anything?''
81 do not know positively whether he has
CT not; but know that he promised ht
would, and he will.''
sis it true that Secretary Schurz sub
scribed?''
eyes,
elias Postmaster General Key given any
thing to the Republican campaign fund?''
| ''It was understood that he would, and
believe he has. Some of the members O
the cabinet have paid in their subscriptions
but don't know which of them. All O
them promised us something, and boil
Schurz and Key have contributed, or will
There is nothing in reason why they shoule
not. There IS nothing in the constitution
OF the laws to prevent anybody from giving
financial aid to political parties. A maj
came in here the other day, and, asking how
we were off for campaign funds, handed i,
$500. He has no Office, never had one, ant
will probably never want one.'
l. "Returning to the President, YOU remem
Der that it was understood that Presiden
Grant subscribed $4,000 to the Republican
campaign fund in 1912
81 have heard so, but don't believe it.
don't believe he made formal subscription
of that amount. He may have given tina
much toward the success of the party gener
ally in the campaign, distributing it anon.
his friends, but, tell you, President Hayes
will do as much as his predecessor, you ma,
rely upon that
Joining in a general talk, Mr.. Foster ex
pressed hearty opinion that everythin.
! looked very favorable for Republican ma
jority in the next House of Representatives
A Ne,c Yersion of the Barbara F,,eitcI,i
1 Story.
N. Y. Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
A new version of the Barbara Freitchi
story is given by Mrs. NJ. ]. Burnham, o
this city, who says she was in Fredericks
burg three months in 1868, and knew tire
old maids with name like Freitchie. The,
told her proudly how their niece Barbara
not an old woman but young and prett,
girl-had been the only one in that town VIII
didn't back down when the rebels CAM
through the city. When she knew Stonewal