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BY Committee on Streets

| by Committee on Streets
/ 1t is hereby ordered by the Common Council
| of the City of st. Paul:
| That the matter of grading of Arch street
between Linden and Columbia streets, in the
| City of St. Paul be, and til. same is hereby
referred to the Board of Public Works to
| investigate and report.
| First--Is this Improvement proper and nee
essary?
Second-Giye the Council an estimate of the
expense thereof, and state whether half OF
| the cost thereof is to be paid into the City
Treasury before the contract is let.
Third-Can real estate to be assessed for said
| improvement, be found benefited to the extent
of damages, costs and expenses necessary to
be incurred thereby?
Fourth is such improvement asked for upon
the petition or application of the owners of a
majority of the property to he assessed for
such improvement?
Fifth Send the Council plan or profile of
said improvements as required by law, if you
report in favor of the same.
Sivth-Send the Council proper order di.
recting the work to be done.
Yeas--Ald. Allen, Dowlan, O'Connor, Otis,
Ringwald, Cornish, Griggs, Brennan, Trott'
Minea, Mr. President-1l.
Approved May 10, 1881.
It is hereby ordered by the Common Council
of the City OF st. Paul:
That the matter of the extension of the
Fort street sewer, from its present southwest
ern terminus to Western avenue, be, and the
same is hereby referred to the Board of
Public Works to investigate and report
First-Is this improvement proper and nee
essary?
Second-Give the Council an estimate of the
expense thereof, and state whether onehalf of
the cost thereof is to be paid into the City
Treasury before the contract is let.
Third-Can real estate to be assessed for said
improvement, be found benefited to the extent
of damages, costs and expenses necessary to
be incurred thereby?
Fourth-Is such Improvement asked for
upon the petition or application of the owners
of a majority of the property to be assessed
for such improvement?
Fifth-Send the Council plan or profile of
said improvements rs required by law, if you
report in favor of the same.
Sixth-Send the Council proper order d.
recting the work to be done.
Yeas-Ald. Allen, Dowlan, O'Connor, Otis,
Ringwald, Cornish, Griggs, Brennan, Trott,
Minea, Mr. Presidential.
Approved May 10, 1881.
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Confirmation Of Assessment for Opening and Extending Carroll
Street from Makubln to Lexington Street.
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CRY OF ST.. PAUL, MINI, May 18th, 1851. !

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Also,
Lines of Tenth Street


The Committee on Streets, etc, 10 whom
WAS referred the communication of A. L. Al
ness, in regard to the lines of Tenth street, be-
tween Broadway and Canada, report that an
examination of the matter, in connection with
the City Engineer, has satisfied your commit
tee that the sidewalks have been built four
feet too far north on both sides of the street,
by private owners.
Your committee, therefore, recommend that
the City Engineer cause the sidewalk and
fences TO De changed, SO as to correspond with
the proper line OF the street, between Canada
and Broadway, on Tenth street Respectfully,
JOHN DowLAN, Chairman.
AIay lG, 1881.
Adopted. Yeas II.
Also,
Seventh Street Change of Grades
The Committee on Streets, etc, to whom was
referred the report of the Board of Public
Works IN the matter of a change of grade
on Seventh street between Neill street and
Minnehaha street, concur in the opinion of
said Board, rs to the propriety and necessity
of said Improvement, and submit herewith n
resolution, that the Clerk give the notice re-
quired by law. Respectfully,
JOHN DowLAN, Chairman.
May Il, 1851.
The following is the report referred to-:
To the Common Council of the City of st.
The Board Of Public Works have had under
consideration the resolution or order of the
Common Council approved March 29th, 1881,
relative TO a change of grade on Seventh street,
from Neill street to Minnehaha street, and hav-
ing investigated the proposed Improvement,
respectfully report that said improvement is
necessary and proper, that the estimated ex-
pense thereof is $4,000; that real estate to be
assessed therefor can he found benefited to the
extent of the damages, costs and expenses
necessary 10 be incurred thereby; that said i'm
provemeat is not asked for by petition of
majority Of the owners of property to be as
sessed therefor, but we herewith send plan
or profile of said Improvement, if you desire
To make the improvement. Yeas 5, nays O.
JOIN HARRINGTON, President.
=, /. GoRMAS, Clerk of Board of Public Works
April %, 1881.
Adopted. (See resolution.)
Also,
. Change of Street Grades
The Committee on Streets, etc, TO whom
was referred the report of the Board of Public
Works in the matter of a change of grade on
Broadway, from Seventh streetto Third street;
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Alley Grade

Alley Grade
The Committee on Streets, etc to whom
was referred the profile of the alley in block
II, Robert & Raudall's Addition, with the rec
ommendation of the City Engineer that the
grade as represented by the red line on said
profile be adopted as the grade of said alley,
concur in the recommendation of said En-
gineer, and submit herewith resolution for
the adoption of said red line as the grade of
said alley. Respectfully,
JOHN DowLAN, Chairman.
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Fl. Hall and others petition

The Committee on Streets, etc., to whom
was referred the petition OF Fl. Hall, A. P.
Kirk, and seventeen others, claiming that
Mount Airy and Broadway streets were not
graded in accordance with the established
grade, recommend that the City Engineer be
instructed to report to the common council as
10 whether the claim of the petitioners is
true, and if SO, what was the occasion for
grading said streets in manner not CORE
spending with the grade of said streets.
JOHN DowLAN, Chairman.
Adopted.
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The Committee on Streets, etc, TO whom
was referred the report of the Board of Public
Works in the matter of a change of grade on
Broadway, from Seventh streetto Third street.;
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-15
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

Ia New York Government bonds quoted at
1l5b for IS of 1907 1o1s tor IS of 1881; 1928 for
4ss; sterling. o. 79Ra4 s33 ; silver bars I12s
Silver in London, Sgd consols 9s 11-l6d; s per
cent United States bonds, 1881 Is 1l94 AIS, ll64.
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at dis
CONT to par; Mexican dollars, 90@9oic
Mining stocks again quiet in San Francisco
vest erday morning Most descriptions were about
the same as Thursday. There possibly little
better tone. Savage was worked up little, with
sales as high as "a 30, the best price in some time.
Mexican troops marching to the Arizona bor-
der, to cooperate with the American forces against
the Apaches.
Gas works are to be erected at once in Tucson,
A T.
John C. Fremont has resigned from the Govern
orship Of Arizona.
Harvey Mortier was hanged at Ukah, Mendocino
county yesterday, for the murder of Richard Mac
Pherson.
At Silver City, Idaho, yesterday, Henry Mcdonald
was executed for killing George Meyers.
Samuel c. Bruce has been appointed Interna
Revenue storekeeper for the First District OF Cali
fornia
The estimated cost of the proposed Garfield monu
DeUJ ~ NlefSldnu S-OV,OVV VI "uiSu SAht 10
expected to give $4,000
Great excitement exists in Ireland over the arrest
of Parnel and much incendary talk is INDUCED in.
The deficit in the wheat crop OF France this year
will be So OOo0 900 bushels, and the wheat crop of
Algeria is in deplorable condition.
The hydraulic mines of Nevada county are all
starting up.
George H. Pettingill is in custody at Bakersfield,
Kern county, char led with an attempt to outrage
7-year -old girl.
The Mechanics Fair is in progress at Portland, Or
Wilson Hartwig dangerously wounded himself in
Washington county, Oregon, while trying to sheet
a dog.
In shooting ARRAY at New Orleans Thomas
Devereaux and Michael Hennessy were fatally
wounded.
The Republican majority in Ohio for Governor is
about %, 0Oo
John Kelly asserts that Tammany will support the
entire Democratic State ticket in New York.
terrible explosion of nitro glycerine occurred
near Bradford, Pa, Thursday night
The Executive Committee OF the Yosemite Com
mission held business meeting at San Francisco
yesterday.
The Acknowledgement exonerates DR.. Harvey
from the charge OF corruption in connection with
his mileage as a State Prison Director.
The Grand Lodge, F. and A. NJ, elected officers
Mt San Francisco yesterday, and will adjourn sine
die to-day.
Nearly the whole town of Kokomo, COL, has been
destroyed by fire.
Guiteau was arraigned yesterday in the Criminal
Court at Washington.
Attention is directed to the excellence of the mat
ter contained in the inside pages of todays RECORD
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-15
INEQUALITY or PUNISHMENT.

Recent Eastern dispatches contained two
statements which furnish food for thought.
Three young men who were led by reading
dime novels to rob train were sentenced
to seventy years imprisonment each. On
the same day DR.. Buchanan was sentenced
to one years imprisonment and a fine of
81, 200 for selling false medical diplomas.
There is no room for doubt as to which OF
these crimes deserved the heavier penalty.
The train robbery was the first crime of the
three defendants. 1t was after all mere
common robbery, and its i'll effects began
and ended there. But the man Buchanan
had been engaged for twenty years or more
In selling false diplomas. That is to say,
he had been supplying quacks and impos'
tors with the means of committing murder
with IMMUNITY. 1t is impossible to trace
the harm done by this old scoundrel. He
has sent his false diplomas all over the
country. He has equipped ignorant knaves
with the means of robbing and staying the
public. He has been instrumental in in
creasing the already enormous evils OF
medical quackery. 1t is impossible to esti-
mate the guilt of such criminal, and
it is clear that the only adequate
penalty for such crimes would be
ife imprisonment. For DR.. Buchanan
is infinitely more than an ordinary
murderer. He is himself by construction
wholesale assassin. Yet the Court thought
q practically venial punishment sufficient
for the occasion. The man is understood
to be wealthy. His infamous business was
a very profitable one. He will pay the
fine of one thousand dollars without feeling
it. And year hence he will be liberated,
free to resume his villainous practices, and
encouraged to believe that the law has no
terrors for such as he. On the other hand
the foolish youths who robbed the train
have been virtually punished more severely
than if they had been murderers. They
aresent to prison for terms equivalent to life
sentences. They are doomed to fate far
worse than hanging. And yet the crime
they committed was not an enormous one,
and in fact not to be compared for atrocity
to that which the hoary old rogue Buchanan
practiced for near lifetime with impun-
ity. While punishments are SO fagrantly
unequal, and while the severity is SO
grossly disproportioned to the iniquity OF
the offenses, it cannot be wondered at if
the people distrust the Courts, and regard
the law as rather hindrance than help
tn civilization
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-15
WHAT IS HEP

The Republican Senators have got Bay
ard out and Davis in, and after all their
trouble it is impossible to perceive that
they have gained anything, or improved
the situation particle. They have made
a man President of the Senate who is
neither fish, flesh nor good salt herring, as
the saying goes. He is not Republican,
he is not Democrat, and he is not an In
dependent. Nobody knows what he would
do under any given political exigencies.
Nobody can pretend to say that in the
event of President Arthur's death he would
not be as likely to turn out Democratic
President as Republican one. There is
just chance, it is true, and it is doubtless
for the sake of this chance that the change
has been made. In our opinion it was not
worth making. Bayard is man of far
Ligher caliber than Davis, and in politics
he has clear-cut convictions, and is not a
weathercock like the Senator from Illinois.
The Republican party has certainly not Sc
cured partisan victory in this matter, and
we are afraid that it has done that of which
it may hereafter have reason to repent.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-15
worsELEY ON THE CHANNEL TUNNEL.

1t is said that Sir Garnet Wolseley has
declared himself opposed to the construc-
ton of the Channel tunnel, on the ground
that it would be constant source of dan.
ger to England. This is not very clearly
expressed, and therefore we may misappre-
bend Sir Garnet's real cause of objection.
The presumption, however, is that he
thinks such tunnel might be employed
for the purpose of conveying an invading
army, and this has the appearance of a
very far-fetched, not to say fantastic idea.
For if the Channel tunnel were built, it
would of necessity be so small an affair as
to be destructible with very little trouble.
A single charge of dynamite exploded in
the right place, in fact, would at any mo-
ment make it impossible to make use of
the tunnel for hostile or other purposes.
1t would be much more easily guarded
than long coast line, and as source OF
serious danger to England, from a military
standpoint, it seems to have 70 status. If
this is the most important objection to the
tunnel, the two countries might as well
make up their minds to proceed with it.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-15
ALLEGED SLAVERY IN HAWAII.

1t is alleged, in very circumstantial
way, that human slavery is practiced in
the Hawaiian Islands under the pretext of
assisting immigration. 1t is said that the
victims are South Sea Islanders, Chinese
and Portuguese that the native women
are'sold into prostitution that the island.
ers cannot endure the mode of life, and die
out rapidly that the Portuguese, though
harder, are failing from the same cause !;
and that the Chinese alone are capable of
bearing up. It is said that the people who
make contracts to work on the islands are
egregiously imposed upon as to the charac-
ter of the work that they are driven to
work by regular slave-overseers, armed
with whip, knife and pistol that these
ruffians think nothing of shooting or
stabbing any man who ofends them.
1t is evident that slavery. under
the guise of the contract system, is
worse in many respects than thedownright
old.fashioned method of bargain and SALE
The contractor has no motive for sparing
his employees, nor does he lose anything if
they die on his hands. They are not his
property, though he uses them as if they
were. These statements however appear
in so positive and specific shape as to
command public attention. It were better
that the Sandwich Islands were sunk
under the sea than that they should
become the focus of new slavery system.
The United States cannot afford to permit
such atrocities to continue. The victims
of these brutal planters should be assisted.
There have been many rumors of this
character at intervals before, but none
possessing so much particularly of state
ment as this one. The case ought to be
looked into at once, and if the truth of the
allegation is substantiated steps should be
tax en- to stamp out the evil.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-15
AN INDECENT CONTROVERSY.

The controversy about the claims OF
Colonel Rockwell to the place of Quarter
master General, is positively indecent. 1t
is asserted that he or his friends tried to
make President Garfield sign his promo
ton papers while he was on his death bed.
It is alleged that some other man, friend
of General Grant, has prior claim. 1t is
to be hoped that none of the men who are
engaged in this shameful quarrel over the
grave of Garfield will be recognized by
President Arthur. He cannot do better
than reject all their claims and dirty
wrangles together, as an emphatic ex-
preston of his view of the matter. When
the greed of office.seeking reaches such a
point as this it ought to be checked by
any means that come to hand.
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this he calls the attention of our bankers.
1t appears that single firm in single
city of the United States ships S., 900, 900
worth annually of canned goods to Europe.
The trade is so vast as to have awakened
the jealousy of European dealers
and Gamers, and hence, says Con.
sui Mason, of Basic, the war upon
our meat products, which now ex.
ceeds in vigor and feeling that recently
made upon American pork. The German
Society for the Protection of Health has
Illuminated fearful document against our
Gamers, and talk about the Texas cattle
fever, lead in the cans, trichina, diseased
meat, etc, but the Consul adds that our trade
in this line marches on, although the Ger.
mans are going to extraordinary lengths in
their warfare against it. Consul General
Weaver gives US the official census of the
Austrian Empire, from which we learn
that the Emperor rules over 1874, Alb
people, an increase of 1000, 900 since 1869.
Consul. General Lee of Frankfort-on-the-
Main at great length describes the police
regulations in force in Germany to prevent
adulteration of milk, and under which not
only the milk, but the constitution of the
cow is subject to rigid inspection. He
thinks we can take a lesson on the subject
from Germany. Consul Dubois, writing OF
crop prospects in northwestern Germany
and Holland, after pointing out the
them unfavorable outlook for farm
ers there, says that with greatest
nonchalance the consumers cry, "What
matters it, the American wheat is Is per
cent. cheaper than the home product, and
90 per cent. better, and as there is an
abundance of it we do not see any
possible chance of famine" This
is certainly contented and uncon.
cerned view, however cold blooded the
German farmer may consider it. Consul
Grain devotes his report wholly to butter
and cheese making in Italy; MIR. Moran,
to the census of Portugal; MIR. Schuyler,
to Roumanian imports Minister Foster, TO
banking institutions of Russia Consul
Marston, at Malaga, to American shipping
and seamen, to Spanish custom. house reg
ulations, the processes of the production of
Malaga raisins, and the wines, vines, phil
loxera, lemons, oils and oranges of that
section; Consul. General Heap treats of
trade and the employment of capital in
Turkey and her exports, in document of
great length and profound interest; Mr..
Comfy, Minister to Honolulu, contributes
chapter on the trade and navigation of
the Hawaiian Islands, and Vice-Consul
Hastings one on labor in the islands, and
one on immigration and leprosy there.
The few reports thus noted are sufficient to
indicate the character of the consular pa
pers and the efforts made by our State De-
partment to gather reliable information on
topics of interest.
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glish Government cannot surrender to the
Land League under any circumstances.
But it has been bsasted by the League
leaders that they in reality governed the
country, and that the laws Of England
were no longer obeyed. Now that is
an impossible and intolerable state OF
things, and it has become inevitable
that measures should be taken to
end it. Parnell has undertaken to prevent
the application of the Land Act. He has
through the League undertaken to bully
and coerce the tenants into refusing to
avail themselves of its benefits. To all
practical intents he has thrust the League
between the people and the Government,
and declared his intention to GUST the lat
ter. The most liberal of Governments
could not stand this. 1t had become abso-
lutely necessary to make it clear that Par
nell and the Land League could not have
their own way, and hence the arrest Of
Parnell. Whether this step is wise one
or not will depend upon the measures of
which it forms part. It appears practi-
eally of little use to arrest Parnel while
the whole machinery of the League isleft
in working order. His single arrest can
only exasperate his friends, and stimulate
them to further outrages. If it is in
tended to force on a final contest with
the League it must be attacked all
along the line. OF course Parnell has
no right whatever to protest against
his arrest. When he deliberately under
took to trample under foot the laws Of the
empire he exposed himself to just such
consequences as this. No Government
could endure supinely what he and his
party have been urging and doing, without
stultifying itself. As regards the effect of
his Imprisonment upon the League, we do
not apprehend the general rebellion which
its terribly excited Secretary seems to
have in mind. Such rising indeed would
be at once fatal to the cause of the rebels,
for they could expect nothing but swift
overthrow, and their defeat would beyond
question kill the whole movement. And
we may be sure that the Government did
not decide upon this step until it had
ascertained pretty accurately how it
would be received. There is rea.
son to believe that large number
if not majority of the tenants ask moth
ing better than fair play under the Land
Act. But they are afraid to incur the en-
nifty of the League, and SO they pretend
not to be satisfied. This class would be
greatly relieved if the Government would
break up the League, and so give them an
excuse to follow the dictates of their own
Judgment. The truth is that Parnell and
his lieutenants have never had majority
of the Irish people with them, but by es-
establishing secret organization they have
exercised terrorism over those who did not
believe in their policy. If the Govern
ment intends now to put an end to this
business it will no doubt have hard strug-
gle before it, but when once the back of
the boycotters is broken there will be
plenty of Irishmen on hand to give them
the coup-de-grdce.
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THE PENSION FRAUDS.

It takes government Office long time
to find out that it is being made the VIC
tim of corrupt practices. This is preemi-
nently the case with the Pension Bureau.
When the bill was brought into Congress
which entailed probable expenditure of
a hundred millions upon the country, its
character suggested two important con-
siderations. One was that the bill would
open the door to fraud on large scale.
The other was that it had been drawn with
a distinct purpose of that kind in view.
The press examined the bill discovered its
defects; and pointed them out. But at
that time-as indeed at all times-the two
parties in Congress were engaged in con-
test of demagogism. They were trying to
see which could throw the largest tub to
catch that innocent whale, the voter. And,
therefore, when bill was introduced plo-
Tossing to bein the interest of the soldiers of
the rebellion, neither dared to attack or op-
pose it. The Democrats were afraid, because
their eonsciences were not easy as to their
own relation to the rebellion, and because
they hoped to make some political capital
by voting all these millions for the poor
soldiers. The Republicans thought they
could not afford to question the
proposition, first, because they had a
reputation for loyalty to keep up, and Sec
ond, because they knew the Democrats
would take instant advantage of any hest
tation on their part. So the bill went
through easily. But it was SO evidently
loose in its provisions, and offered such
powerful temptation to impostors, that