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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-18

WHILE every one condemns the attempt
to purchase legislation, there seems to be
but one opinion relative to Brandt's exhibit
ton in the House on Saturday, and that
opinion is the reverse of complimentary to
him. Of course the public does not know
all the facts, but taking MI. Brandt's own
statement as the basis, it places him in a
most unenviable light. He sought the bride,
and pledged himself to vote in considera-
ton of the money. He arranges to criminate
himself and expose the transaction, and
those who were cooperating with him being
informed in advance of the plot, seek to Sc
cure the hasty passage of the pending bill on
the heels of the exposure. It was a cum
ming scheme, but Mr.. Brandt evidently for
got, in his endeavor to implicate buyer,
that there must also be seller of vote.
That little oversight, while it is no excuse
for the purchaser, places Mr.. Brandt in an
equally bad position.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-18
The Tenesttela Broke,. Pile.

To the Editor Of the Washington Post:
In your paper of the LIST inst. you pub
lished a memorial to Congress from Mr..
Hancox, president of the Venezuela Steam
Transportation Company, praying for re-
dress for damages sustained in Venezuelan
waters. The memorial appears worthy
that public attention which, in the same pa
per, you bespeak for it, but it has occurred
to me that if Mr.. Hancox had had expert
ence that various other parties, sustaining
damages of a similar nature, have had with
Venezuela, as creditor promising to pay,
that he would hardly ask that the interna-
tional commission, through which those
parties received promise of payment, should
be declared annulled. If she is made to
abide the issue Of that first arbitrament. she
will have (that which she most needs in this
CASEY more wholesome regard for the de-
mands of that government whose good Of
fees Mr.. Hancox invokes, and the liability
of the memorialist, having to experience
what others have passed through (who have
held Venezuela's promise to pay, dishonored
through the last nine years. will be very
much lessened
You speak of the part played in this mat
ter by w. A. Pile as the head of a ring; and
would it not be well, while Senators and
Representatives are examining this governor
consider the following facts?
That w. A. Pile was refused recognition
as represe ntatiye of the Venezuelan govern
ment by the late administration, and on very
strong reasons.
That w. A. Pile wrote in some paper q
bill which the Senate of the United States
was asked to ,epnsider some weeks ago
to annul treaty and abrogate the, work Of
an international commission.
That w. A. Pile has appeared since before
committee of both houses to plead for the
passage of his bill.
That w. A. Pile, in committee room OF
the Senate, has denounced and DETAINED
United States citizens, and charged Congress
men of the United States with the taking of
brides for their votes on the floor of the
House.
If it should not be pleasing, it might per-
haps be profitable for Senators and Repre-.
sentatives to give the facts above stated q
little careful consideration. CLAIMANT.
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The Pope,s H,a,,,i1itv.

On the day of his election to occupy the
chair of st. Peter, the late Pope wrote the
following letter to his brothers at Sinigaglia:
JUNE, 16, Most dearly beloved
brothers, Giuseppe and Gaetano: God, the
blessed one, who humbleth and exalteth,
hath both pleased to raise me, who am SO
base, to the highest dignity on earth. His
most holy will be evermore done. know
in some measure the almost boundless weight
of such charge, and know equally my
poverty, not to speak of the utter nothing
ness of my spirit. Cause prayer to be offered
up, and pray for me yourselves. The con
clave has lasted forty eight hours. If the
city of Sinigaglia should like to go to some
expense in the way of demonstration, en-
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BRIBERY IN LEGISLATION.

The disgraceful development which Rep
resentative Brandt made in the Legislature
on Saturday should call attention to the fact
that very few important measures pass with
out being tainted by bribery, or something
akin to it. A money consideration is not al
ways used, but the bribery is as actual as
though fifty dollar bills were handled.
How many members of the Legislature
vote fol- measures which they really do not
wish to support, but are compelled to do so
to secure other measures of their own?
How many members of the Legislature vote
for measures only upon their merits? The
mere question relative to the nature of the
article used as bride is immaterial. A
greenback is mere representative of value.
1t has no intrinsic worth. A vote given by
ing another vote by another measure, is as
clearly bribery as the actual transfer of
money.
For instance the Merrill bill was notori-
ously Graded through. It never could
have passed upon it's merits, and no import
ant amendment can be made to it upon its
merits The so-called supplementary bill
nowp pending has been ''trade'' from the start.
AS to other means used in it's behalf, we do
not need at this time to enlarge as our pur-
pose is to call attention to the more fragrant
character of bribery which is carried on as
matter of course, without concealment, and
without any apparent consciousness that it is
anything improper.
It is this common kind, and we might al
most say universally recognized form of
bribery, which makes it an easystep to more
direct and what wrongly is regarded as more
culpable bribery. There needs to be stop
put to all trading in legislation, and uutil
that is done there is no occasion to be aston
ished if men are able to advertise themselves
as having sought and received money brides,
as Brandt announces he did.
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ASLEEP WITH A DEAD MAN.

1a Adjutant's Story of the RappahanMoch
Campaign.
Lieut.. III. P. Goddard in Phila. Weekly Times
The delay occasioned in extricating the
horses from the mud at the scene of this skir-
mish, and in waiting for the artillery and
infantry to come up, prevented the COM
mand from reaching Falmouth till daylight,
when they found all the bridges across the
Rappahannock in flames, and were only able
to pour few yolleys of musketry and hurl a
few shot and she'll into the rear guard of the
enemy as it disappeared in the streets of
Fredericksburg. While these events were
occurring, the writer remained with his
guard in charge of the captured camp and
prisoners. Some half hour after the depar-
ture of the regiment a sergeant approached
the campfire by which I sat, and
saluting said: "Lieutenant, where shall
we put the body of Lieutenant
Decker? 1t lies rolled in blanket at the
head of the street just vacated by his COM
pany.' rose and went with the sergeant
to the spot, and, calling another soldier, had
them raise the body, which l decided to
place in the evergreen booth, lately occupied
by the colonel, as the largest and most com
handing spot in the camp ground. AS we
stood, noticed a pile of blankets in one
corner, and thought that, in his haste in the
nights advance, Fitzpatrick had, purposely OF
not, left them behind, and that I must bear
them in mind when we moved. clay the
body in there, boys They placed it reyer-
emily on the ground and we all retired, for I
could spare none of my small guard, even to
watch over the body, Next morning, when
we received orders to rejoin the regiment,
we found the body where we had left it, and
bore it with us to Falmouth, where, on the
succeeding day, it received honorable burial
in the little Virginia churchyard.
A night or two after heard the adiutant
narrate an experience in connection with the
death of Decker that had startled him con-
siderably. ssWhen ordered to advance from
camp that night said Ben, 81 was sleeping
with Fitzpatrick, and was SO completely used
up by the long march of the day before that
it was impossible for me to mount my
horse. I told the Colonel SO, and he said
that might remain behind and come on
next day with the guard, when he rose and
left me. I turned over and was soon sound
asleep again. Toward morning the
cold awoke me, when, forgetting the
incidents of the night, I turned toward
Fitzpatrick las 1 suppose6 and seeing him
all IO1eQ up III LILO D4duheIS clunS1ly,
exclaimed: Colonel, let me have some of
your blanket Getting no response 1
reached toward him and gave the blankets
hard pull, when, as they rolled off the body
by my side, imagine my establishment and
horror to find my bedmate not the living
Fitzpatrick, but the dead Decker
ssWhat did you do?'' said Lieutenat Char
ley Hasty.
"Do? jumped to my feet, seized my ac-
coutrements, ran from the tent, mounted my
horse and rode after the regiment which I
found and rejoined just as it was entering
Falmouth. But would give something to
know how Decker's body got into that place.
That never told him.
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OWING MONEY IN EUROPE.

public debt has been called a national
blessing. This is theoretical view-a phil
osophical analysis-a dreamy closet system
Of finance. Tax payers are more practical,
are brought into nearer relations with the
subject, and entertain different notions.
They have to pay the interest, and finally the
principal, and it is proper that their opinions
should have weight. Leaving out
the blessing idea, borrowed from Eng
land, a public debt becomes sometimes a
national necessity, and being necessity the
question arises: Is it better for the debt to
be held at home OF abroad? How much of
England's debt is held by foreigners? Com
pare France, springing like giant from the
ashes of desolating war, and paying off an
Immense war debt, almost without an effort,
with those nations held in the bondage of
debt by other powers.
Moneyed men and gold shriekers publish
daily bulletines of the amount of bonds
being sent home from Europe. This is a
played-out scare-crow. It would be better
for the United States if not national bond
was owned by foreigner. Our railroads
and other public enterprises are already
owned and controlled by foreign capital,
and if we keep on, the government
itself will be no better. Our legislation is
already subjected to foreign influences.
And this is because Of the fact that, instead
of developing the resources of the country,
instead Of digging out Of the ground national
wealth, instead of opening our ports to the
world and carrying our products to every
market, freely buying and freely
selling, we are living and
have been living under the
exclusiyeness of radical and Republican pro-
lection. The financial policy of the Repub-
ican party may be formulated, condensed
and summed up in one sentence. That pol
icy has been to borrow and to run into debt,
instead of making and earning money. This
is the whole secret of Republican waste and
extravaganza. Why, figures can't count the
debts of the people of the United States. Add
to this, that the country is in the jaws of
foreign capitalists, and it is about time we
began to pay. Let the bonds come home.
It will, in the end, be better for all.
Meanwhile, in some way, the people must
be relieved, This financial uncertainty
must cease. Make the silver dollar legal
tender and take the yoke Of serfdom from
the necks of the debtor classes. Unless
something be done, and that quickly, last
summers riots may be followed by vide
spread revolution.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-18

very peculiar appearance. They were long
haired, with large legs and long claws and
very heavy tails. One specimen in each
litter was raised, so as to see this freak of
nature in maturity. At six months of age
they were very large. Some of them are
stripped like ion others are quite black.
The fur is from three to six inches in length
all over the body; tuft of long hair rims
the ears. The head is like that of any cat.
except the eyes of all them have wild or
frightened look. At the neck the fur stands
out like wide'ruffie. The tail is covered
with long fur, and would measure, perhaps,
SIX inches in circumference. All of them
are very active, and will spring from the floor
to the top of room eight or nine feet high
with perfect ease. When frightened they
are disposed to turn and show fight. and they
Will not permit much pettinp.
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Dumb Till the HON., of Death.

The Harrisburg Penn.) Telegraph tells
ard, his wife, and his brother, George A.,
recently died of consumption in that city
within six days. George was twenty-one
years of age, and had been deaf and dumb
from his birth. He was never known to hear
or speak word. just previous to his death
he called in loud voice to his sister, who
was in another room, repeating her name
several times. The sister, scarcely crediting
her own hearing, fastened to his bedside,
and found that it was really true-he had
called to her. He uttered no other sound,
and in few minutes he was dead.
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Hotel ut WAite Rear.

To the Editor of THE GLOBE
WHITE BEAR February 18th, 1875
1 avail myself of the very judicious open
ing of department of your paper for brief
inquiries and answers for the information of
your patrons, to ask the simple question,
Why cannot we have a spacious and first
class hotel here at the lake? You must be
personally aware of the long continued and
constantly increasing demand for such an in
stltution at this place, and this, too, without
any detriment to the several well conducted
(yet entirely inadequate as to style and
room) public houses already here. Please
answer. AN OLD RESIDENT.
There is no doubt about the importance
of having a large and commodious hotel
erected at White Bear. 1t is the great sum-
mer resort of the State, and only needs in
creased accommodation to become the great
est in the Northwest. The litigation CON
corning a considerable portion of the availa-
bic property at the lake has undoubtedly de-
layed such enterprise, but we understand
that there is property not involved in that
suit which would afford an excellent site for
hotel. If it can be secured no other way,
the citizens of St. Paul would find it good
investment to organize company, or give a
bonus for the purpose.-ED. GLOBE.
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him resign. His oath to maintain the con-
stitution only binds him while in Office, even
If his construction of that instrument shonld
differ from his constituents. Mr.. Lamar, we
fear, has lost sight of principles more essen
tial to the existence of free government than
simple question of finance
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-18

j. F. Todd has retired from the Stevens
County Tribune and has been succeeded by
w. j. Munro. Mr.. Munro lays down this
platform:
Although am Republican, do not intend
to conduct Republican paper, but will be
guided by sense of right, and wrong, and no
measure will be endorsed simply because it is
promulgated by that party. Hence, this paper
will be Independent, and our views on all mat
tiers will be so expressed.
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MORNING. FEBRUARY IS 1878

deavor, I expressly desire, also, that the sum
to be expended be all laid ont in things use
full for the city, in the Judgment of the
mayor and council. As to you, my dear
brothers, embrace you both heartily in
Jesus Christ. Far from exulting, rather
compassionate your brother, who gives the
apostolic blessing to all. PIus TX.
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THEEWEEKLY GLOBE.

The WEEKLY GLOBE is a mammoth sheet, exactly
double the size of the Daily. 1t is just the paper
for the Preside containing in addition to all the current
news, choice miscellany agricultural matter, market
reports &c. 1t is furnished to single subscribers at
$3.50 per year. Clubs of five address to one per-
sony for S115 each.
Postage prepaid by the publisher on all editions.
All mail subscriptions payable invariably in advance
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Sidetc0lk Nails

.Sidetc0lk Nails
To the Editor of The GLOBE.
Allow lady to complain of the condition
of the sidewalks on every street in the city.
Many of my friends and acquaintance have
had their best dresses torn and ruined by the
nails. LADY READER.
The board Of public works attention
Ed. GLOBE.
Il Hint to Real Estate Men ana House
Letters.
To the Editor Of THE GLOBE.
If persons advertising real estate for sale,
or houses to rent, would state prices and
terms, they would get customers much
sooner. TENANT.
Tenant is right-ED. GLOBE.
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FERNS of subscription to the Daily Globe.
THE SUNDAY GLOBE.

TIE GLOBE will be furnished every day In the
week to city subscribers at IS cents per month $40
per year.
By mail the SUNDAY GLOBE will be one dollar per
year in addition to the rate given above for mail
ubscribers.
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The Pioneer Press has substituted Jim
Bakers stolen productions for it's usual re-
hash of Sunday ",Scnn Nag." Not much
Improvement.
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4 Ne,c Breed of Cats.
[Philadelphia Ledger

In the little manufacturing village of
Queechy, VT, has arrived a new breed of
cats. Several old family cats, all of them
quite aged, gave births to itters of kittens Of
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IT is mooted question whether we are
indebted for the preservation Of the Union
to Townsend of New York or to Conger of
Michigan.
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The Conference of European Powers will
be held at Baden-Baden. No such game of
chance was ever played there before.
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$4,000 Or So.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
sympathy" by telegraph won't get
brother Anderson out of Jail, gentlemen.
Send him a draft for $4,000 or. SO, why
don't YOU?
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-18

IT is strange that it never occurred to
Brandt to ascertain whether Appleton & Co.
were using money.
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Flirting IN Choi,.s.

To the Editor of The GLOBE.
Are the members of church clloirs priv
legged classes? | frequently observe them
laughing and talking during service, and I
wish to know whether this is part of the
performance or a licensed custom? If it be
custom, it is one that would be more hon
ored in the breach than the observance.
PEW-HOLDER.
Ask your pastor. We are not familiar
with church etiquette.-ED. GLOBE.
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ANOTHER revolution is on the tapis in
Mexico. Diaz don't suit We need those
silver mines. Annexation is the only
remedy.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-18

THERE is to be an agricultural congress in
Washington tomorrow (TuesdayD Lie Due
should supply the ''tay.''
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-18

JOHN SHERMAN opposes a reduction Of th
tax on whisky. John might lose by tn
decline.
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HEWITT, of New York, remarked, origi-
nally: II wear my heart upon my sleeve
Gush! Put it where it belongs.
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GARFIELD calls perjury and forgery and
robbing State of its vote ''the spirit of
peace and conciliationp' Balderdash!
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The Mexican veterans have reunion at
Baltimore on the 22d inst, which, if we re-
member correctly, is Washington's birthday.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-18

jim Baker locates his literary efforts at
:'Mankato.'' That means Congress" Jim's
chances are slim.
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Street Car Fare

Street Car Fare.
To the Editor Of The GLOBE
The fare from the terminus on Fort street
to the terminus on Trout Brook, is six cents.
Ought the same fare be demanded from
College Avenue to Fourth street on branch
line and half the distance.
COLLEGE AVENUE.
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Warn,th and Fertilization.

Wdrn.tIt and Ventilation.
To the Editor of The GLOBE:
School houses are neither sufficiently
warmed nor ventilated. Let this matter be
attended to when the High school building
is built. PARENT.
Respectfully referred to the Board of
Education.-ED. GLOBE.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-18

The investigation committee will soon
reach the pension bureau.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-18

COME to the front, Bill Chandler
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The general impression appears to be that
Brandt has succeeded in making an ass Of
himself.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-18

INVESTIGATION is the order of the day.
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Kerosene and Wate,..

To the Editor of TIE GLOBE:
Is it possible to mix kerosene and water
together SO as to increase the quantity of
oil? LAMp11GHTER.
We hardly think the oil would be in
creased. We have had our suspicious about
the water.-ED. GLOBE,
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Late at Church.

LHCe 1L CUHTC7L.
To the Editor of The GLOBE.
Can't you ask people to be at church in
time and not disturb the whole congregation
by coming in late? CHRISTIAN.
Referred to the pastor.-ED. GLOBE.
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ST. PAUL. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1s, 1878.
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FIFTY dollars is cheap.
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stairs.
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