Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-04-06
upreme Court Decision ON the Contested
Lieutenant GOvernOrship.

In the Minnesota election of 1879, G. A. Gill
man was the Republican candidate for ieuten-
ant governor, and received a majority of 90
900 over E. P. Barnum, the Democratic NOM
was a State representative, and Barnum
claimed the seat on the ground that the
former was Ineligible instituting proceedings
in the supreme court in support of his claim,
and asking leave to file an information in the
nature of a quo warranto Mr.. Justice Cornell,
has delivered the majority opinion of the court,
to the effect that person who receives less
than plurality of the votes cast at a popular
election for lieutenant governor is not entitled
to the Office, though the next highest candidate
who receives such plurality Is ineligible to the
offce-the fact of such ineligibility not appear
ing upon the ballots which he go received. A
quo warranto will not be issued without the
consent of the attorney general upon informa-
ton of a private party having no personal in
terest in the question distinct from the public,
to try the right of an incumbent OF public
Office to hold the same
Chief Justice Glfllan delivered a non-con-
current opinion in what was said by the major
ity of the court on the question of the respond
ents eligibility to the Office of lieutenant gov
ernor, and on the meaning of the constitutional
provision referred to, and concurred in the de-
clsion that Barnum does not appear entitled to
the Office, and that therefore he cannot, with
out the consent Of the attorney general, have
the writ of quo warranto to test Gilman's
right to the Office
Life in Berlin.
From Braces Home Life IN Germany
The more see of the middle classes of
Berlin-the lawyers. professors, merchants,
etc.-the more am surprised at the econ
omy shown everywhere Hamburg seems
luxurious by the side Of it. No house with
carpeting, and few with rich furniture even.
A family Soomc co16o,,, IN havo mora fho,,
two servants. In some houses of wealthy
merchants have seen the dining room fur
nished with beds in curtained alcoves, so
contracted is the accommodation. And in
nearly all some Of the sitting rooms are
turned into bedrooms. as the first thing
with German is to have place in which
to chat with his friends, and after that,
where to lay his head. I see, too that the
Hamburg bountiful dinners are not in
vogue here: and invitations are usually to
SUPPER substantially plain meal. Yet
there is the most constant and easy social
ty everywhere; and il is apparent at once to
the stranger that he is among people of the
highest culture and refinement. Money
seems to be spent readily on entertainments
in music and art and for social enjoyment;
but not much on mere luxury and display.
When a Berlin scholar or man of business
gives party, he does it in a simple, mex
pensive way-generous enough in its pro-
visions, but not Of a very costly kind If
he would ride out with his family, he quiet
~ takes droshky (cab). None but few
superannuated noblemen sport our New
York equipages. Something of all this is
due, no doubt, to the small means of the
people; but more to their good sense To-
wards the foreigner there is less, too, of
outward hospitality than other German
cities; but the want is more than made up
by the lively, easy. intellectual intercourse
into which he can be admitted, and the
genuine interest taken i'll him, if he has
anything worth being interested in.