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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
General Capital Neics.

CALLING ON THE PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, March 8.---The crowd at the
executive mansion to-day was smaller than
heretofore. Senator Conger with patty of
gentlemen and ladies called to pay their re-
spects. In addition to these there was dele
CATION of Alabama Republicans admitted.
They presented statement showing the con-
dition of the State and earnestly requested the
President to consider the same. Reference
was made to the election law of the State as
opening wide the door to fraud and rendering
detection and punishment impossible, and it
was stated elections in the State are little more
than farce. The Presidents attention was
earnestly invited to these statements, with a
view of remedying as much as possible the
evils which exist.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Gen. Grant called on President Garfield this
morning.
Receipts of the internal revenue, 81, ,240, ,092;
customs, SSSS,777; national bank notes re-
ceived for redemption, S2S5,000.
Secretary Kirkwood took charge to-day
of the interior department, and received the
heads of the bureaus, introduced by ex-Secy.
Schurz, who then took formal leave of the
department employees.
The treasury department has just ordered
the transfer of 81 4,601 1897 of government bull
lion from the New York assay office to the
mint at Philadelphia for coinage into eagles
and half eagles.
Monday, after adjournment of the cabinet,
the secretary of the navy, Hunt, formally re-
ceived the chiefs of the bureaus and other Off
GERS, all of whom were introduced by ex-Sec-
retary Goff. During the remainder of the
afternoon the secretary was busy receiving
friends.
Gen. and Mrs. Grant breakfast with the
President and Mrs. Garfield tomorrow.
IL zAzI1 l.
morrow, and at once asssmes the duties OF, sec
retary of war.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

The exodus of French Canadian operatives
from the vicinity of Quebec to the United
States continues.
A fire Sunday night in Bolivar, Tenn, de-
stroyed ten buildings. Loss 200; in
surance S11 900.
Bishop Fabre, of Montreal, has condemned
the practice of swearing Roman Catholic wit
nesses on the Protestant bible as sin.
The scarlet fever and diphtheria prevail to
an alarming extent at st. Henri de Lewis,
Quebec. Several families have lost all their
children.
Mrs. Col. ID. c. Houston, wife of Col
Houston, of the United States engineer corps,
died suddenly at Madison, Wis, yesterday, of
heart disease
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
GENERAL FOREIGN.

LONDON, March Sit is stated that Lowell,
the American minister, received private let
ter from President Garfield stating that it
would be gratifying to him (the PresidenD to
know that Lowell was willing to retain his
present position.
A whale boat was capzized at Queenstown
and seven persons drowned.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, March 5.-A cartridge
factory has been opened here provided with
American machinery capable of turning cut
$4,000 cartridges daily.
ROME, March S.-One hundred and forty
bodies have been dug out of the ruins of Cas-
anocciola. The total number of deaths is
estimated at300
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
GETTING DOWN TO WORK
THE NEW GOVERNMENT TAKING
KINDLY TO THEIR POSITIONS.

The Presidents Time Mainly Taken Up in
Responding to Callers-A Lot of Nomina-
tions Sent to the Senate, Some of Which
are Confirmed-The Democrats Still at
Work Arranging the Senate Committees
The New Cabinet Consider the Question
of Allowing National Banks to With
draw Their Surrendered Circulation
Portrait of Mrs. Hayes Presented the
White House-Extra Session-Gen. Grant
miscellaneous.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
SttrpLltS Rerenite.

WASHINGTON, March S.-The treasury Off
cials estimate the surplus revenue of the re-
naming four months of the present fiscal
year at $45, 100000. The estimate is based on
the expectation that the receipts for March
April, May and June, 1881, will equal those of
the corresponding months of last year. The
sinking fund will require $S,000,000 to COM
plete it. By the end of the present fiscal year,
according to this estimate and exhibit, there
will be surplus Of s7,000,000 available be-
tween now and june 30th, which the secretary
of the treasury might use under the provision
of a recent act of Congress to purchase bonds
for cancellation.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
EADS' SHIP RAILWAY.
The Captain About to Visit Mexico-Con-
fident of the Success of His Scheme
other Engineering Projects.


fident of the Success of His Scheme
other Engineering Projects.
ST. LOUIS, March S.-Capt. Jas. Eads, who
arrived here yesterday, will start for Mexico
in few days to have his. .Tehuantipic grant
confirmed by the Mexican Congress. He will
then go to Tampico where some of his engi-
neers are surveying the harbor for the United
States government. Thence he will
proceed to the Isthmus where
he will spend month and make a thorough
inspection of the route for his ship railway.
This done he will sail for San Francisco, and
as consulting engineer of the State of Cali
fornia, examine the mouth of the Sacramento
river. From there he goes to Oregon, where
he will inspect the mouth of the Columbia
river and Humboldt bay. He will then return to
st. Louis and shortly afterwards visit Toronto.
where he will inspect the harbor at the invita-
ton of the British government, after which he
will sail for England and Holland. Capt. Eads
is thoroughly confident that his ship railway
scheme will be successful. His advices from
Mexico are even more favorable than he an
ticipated. He has three parties of engineers
now at work on the isthmus, and rapid ad-
vance is being made in the surveys. The Mex
lean government ale also aiding
him, in having eight engineers
and gang of seventy laborers engaged in sur
veying and cutting a passage twelve feet wide
through the forest from point on the Us
panama river, thirty-eight miles from the
Gulf, where the railway is to begin the pass
in the Cordilleras sixty miles
distant. Capt. Eads says the reason
why he feels so sure that his
railway will be built is because there are three
possibilities, either one of which is almost
certainty. I believe Congress will give us
the legislation asked for. In fact am almost
sure of it, but if America will not do this the
Mexican concession to me names no particular
government, ,sand l shall carry the grant to
England and see what will be done there.
They will not be blind to its advantages if
Congress is. In the event. can getno govern
ment aid can build the railway by private
enterprise.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
The Chicaqo Blockade Liftino.

CHICAGO, Mach s.-Last night an inch of
snow fell in this city, but it quickly melted,
and the high banks about the streets are rapid
ly diminishing in size. This morning the
snow blockade on the railroads is about over,
and regular time is now being made by most
of the trunk lines. Cross roads still ex-
perience considerable delays, and the snow
which covered the ground four to six inches
in some parts of the Northwest, still further
retarded traffic yesterday. A dispatch from
Pierre, D. T., says: The first train from Chi
cago for forty days arrived on Saturday, and it
is calculated that one-half the cattle in this
section have perished of cold and starvation.
Many points received their first mail Yesterday
since last Wednesday,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
Shrewdness and Ability.

Hop Bitters SO freely, advertised in all the
papers, secular and religious, are having a
large sale, and are supplanting all other medi-
cines. There is no denying the virtues of the
Hop plant, and the proprietors of these Bitters
have shown great shrewdness and ability in
compounding Bitters, whose virtues are so
palpable to every ones observation.-Eram-
iner and Chronicle
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09

Pacific railroad for the election of five direct
ors was held at the company's office this
morning with the following result: Samuel
Sloan, New York; George G. Haven, New
York; ]. Cheney, Fort Wayne; Thomas Z.
Tut and James F. Howe, st. Louis. Messrs
Sloan and Haven represent the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western and New Jersey Cen
trail interests.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
Extra Session,

WASHINGTON, March S.-Republican Sena-
tors are talking quite confidently of an extra
session of Congress to meet May Is. Sena-
tors who recently opposed an extra session
Democrats forcing an organization of the Sen
ate. Republican members of Congress are
acting in concert in behalf of an extra session.
A committee will be appointed not later than
to omorrow to.Yait on the President and urge
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
Railroad absorbed.

PHILADELPHIA, March Sat the annual
meeting of the stockholders of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company to-day, President Rob-
erts made the announcement that at midnight
last night the board of directors of the Penn
sylvania company concluded contract for the
purchase of majority of the stock of the
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore rail-
road company.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
THE VETERAN SIMON.
Celebration of His Eighty-Second Birth
day in Havana.

HAVANA, March S.-Simon Cameron, with
friends, celebrated his eighty-second birthday
here to-day. Capt. Gen. Blanco extended him
the freedom of the island. Cameron visited
Moro castle this morning and received many
of his countrymen. In the afternoon his
friends gave dinner in his honor. This
evening Cameron made a speech reviewing the
important events of his life During the ban
quet he was presented with a ring as me-
mortal of the occasion. Later in the evening
Cameron attended the opera by invitation Of
the captain general. Cameron is making O
study of the tobacco growing system. He
will sail for home Sunday next.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
Escaped Insane Recaptured.

PITTsToN, March S.-Henry Potfeld and
Curtis Dunmore, inmates of the insane asylum
at Danville, who made their escape during
the burning of the asylum Saturday night,
came here last evening and were soon after
taken in charge by the police to be re-
turned to Danville tomorrow.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09

an extra session. Several delegations have in
formally talked with the President, and the
feeling in favor of an extra session has grown
rapidly among Republicans during the last
few days. If the Democrats force an organi-
zation of the Senate it is pretty certain that
an extra session of Congress will be called
If an extra session be called, it will be to pass
the funding bill. The President does not want
an extra session if it can be avoided
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
TRANSVAAL.

DURHAM, March S.-Gen. Wood informed
the Beers that if peace was not concluded he
would assault Laings-Nek Immediately after
the armistice was ended Gen. Wood saws
that he inferred from the tone of the Beers
they were desirous of peace.
LONDON, March s.-A New Castle, Natal,
dispatch states that a convoy, with provisions,
has started for the beleaguered garrison.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
RAILROAD RACKET.
THE ST. PAUL te OMAHA LINE FIRST
THROUGH FROM CHICAGO.

With Regular Trains Resumed Monday
Evening---The Milwaukee s. st. Paul
Blockade Said to Have Been Raised Yes
terday and Three Trains Coming, Two
This Morning--Progress Making In Open
the st. Paul & Sioux City, Hastings & Da-
koata and Morris s. Browns Valley Roads
--Boyden's Luck---The Upper Missouri
Flood--Rumored Resignation of the
General Manager of the Northern Pa
cifo.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
COERCION At WORK,
ARRESTS OF LAND LEAGUERS INAU-
GURATED IN IRELAND.

And Large Numbers of Warrants OUT
The Entire County of Wentworth De-
clared Under Operation of the Act---
Demonstrations of Sympathy of the Peo-
pie as the Prisoners We're Hurried Or to
Jail---A Talkative Home Ruler Suspend
nunciation of the League---A Romance
OF the British Peerage sett1ed---MisceI-
laneous.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
Weather Indications.

WASHINGTON, March 9, 1 A. M.-Indications
for upper Mississippi and lower Missouri val
leys, fair weather, preceded in first district by
rising barometer, winds shifting to easterly,
stationary or higher temperature.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
Fire in Minneapolis This Morning.

About las this morning fire was discovered
in John McGovern's restaurant, 202 Hennepin
avenue. The building is a one-story frame,
which was entirely consumed, as were also
most of the contents. Loss probably about
50 .O0O insurance 5000
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
THE GLOBE HOROSCOPE.
AS 1t Casts its Light on the Chicago
Markets.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.

Especial Telegram to the Globe.l
CHICAGO, March S.-Wheat cables easier,
but our market is very firm with strong un-
dertone, and all indications are for higher
prices regardless of any other market, though
transactions are small with unsettled weather
and the certainty of late spring. We believe
in higher prices. Corn and oats steady and
unchanged.
Provisions active and higher, with a good
demand and with the stocks concentrated in a
few hands. Expect fuctuating market with
an upward tendency under good speculative
and consumptive demand on the curb this
evening. April wheat, 99Sc; May pork,
s15.02H; May lard, $1,000, and May ribs,
$7.S2H.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
Il Suggestion.

To the Editor of the Globe.
If the council and board of public works
cannot agsee on the present candidates for city
engineer why not select Gates A. johnson
TAx-PAYER,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
What the Ladies Saw.

That Powers Bros. have the loveliest styles
in Spring dress goods, laces and silks.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
Directors Elected.

ST. LOUIS, March s.-The annual meeting
of stockholders of the Wabash, st. Louis &
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09

The Indiana delegation convened in extra
session yesterday. Most of the officers of the
regular session were reelected.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-09
Spring Has Opene,

at Powers Bros. The ladies fill the store all
day long examining the new Spring goods.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-15
Popular Songs.


 Some one said that it mattered little who made the laws for people to be governed by, but he who wrote the popular songs ex- srcised the greatest influence over the minds and actions of community. A writer of English history, in speaking of the British navy of Nelson's time, attributed to the songs of Charles Dibdin (author of "Poor Jack" and hundreds of other famous songs) value that should have secured to their author national recognition of 8 statue by his countrymen.
 good many different persons have writ ten the popular songs of the last fifty years, and in nearly every case they have lived to see their songs quickly forgotten by the tickle public. With only a few exceptions, the songs that have had the widest success lived but few years at the most. Of course there are some songs that will be sung by genera Home," "OId Folks at Home," s'Sweet By and By" and few others that have become household melodies. Yet there are hundreds of others, of equal merit, that won universal popularity, and passed away with the people who sang them. Some songs of the slightest merit have had undeserved popularity, made their authors or publishers rich, and quietly dropped into oblivion.
 "Shoo Fly,n sung ten years ago from one end of the Union to the other, had sale of S0,O00 copies, and is now forgotten. It was certainly the most worthless musical absur- Q1ty ever written, and It's success was largely owing to it's being alluded to by General But Ter in Congress in the course of political wrangle with a fellow member. It netted the fortunate publishers several thousand dollars.
 ''Old Folks at Heme'' was written by Stephen c. Foster thirty years ago. who sold it to Christy, of minstrel fame, for foe dol0rs, and received bonus of five dollars more for the privilege of having his (Christy's) name on the title page as author and after that piece had made him rich he generously gave Foster fifty dollars more, which was all he ever received for the song. But it served to make the author famous andto sell all his other songs, yet he died poor man. Fora while the piece waned in public favor, until it was sung by Mile. Nilsson at her concerts, when it took new start, and at this present time it is one of the best selling songs in the market. The numerous transcriptions from it's melody by upwards of twenty differ ent composers serve to keep it popular. It is really worthy companion piece to Sweet Home" and will probably be sung for 8 hun dred years or more.
 During the war, several songs published at the time had remarkable success. Weep
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-15
Price Four Cents.

takes it in his mouth and starts on a bee line for the truck house. If he does not get the DoiZy immediately on reaching the counter, he rises on his hind legs places his fore paws on the counter and looks at the clerk as much as to say, 'Dont forget me pleasei" When the paper is handed him he wags his tail in thanks, and is of in jiffy. Of late he has been muzzled. in accordance with the mayors proclamation, and the paper is put in the muzzle over his nose. On Sunday he never goes to the Duly office as he appears to know the office is closed.
 Sport is a coach dog, and is between and 7 years old He took up his residence in the truck house in February, 1875, and soon be- gan to run to fires with ths company. As soon as the gong strikes in the house he is on the alert and no sooner are the doors thrown open than out he bounds rushing ahead of the horses, then darting back again, jumping up at the horses and dancing around them, and then rushing ahead again, barking furiously all the time. He will dart after vehicles that are ahead of the truck, bark at them and rush at the horses until they get ont of the way. As soon as the company ar- rives at a fire Sport goes on guard, watching the truck and the mems coats, and woe be- tide the person who should offer to meddle with either. Sport has been injured several times On one occasion he was run over by the truck and one of his legs was broken.
  leg was set and he was kindly cared for by the members of the company. The leg got well, but is now a little stiff. .~.-,.--s=s
 On the 22d of February, 1876, after a ter rible storm, the members of the company found little puppy in the old burying ground. It was nearly dead with cold, but they took it to the house and were trying to warm it back to life, when Sport appeared, took the little stranger in his mouth bore it to his own bunk and tended it as carefully as 8 human father. It lived and thrived, the members of the company bringing it up on the bottle. The two dogs grew very fond of each other, and Sport would not suffer any but the members of the company to touch the little stranger, whom the fremen had christened Dash, or even to approach too near him. AS Dash grew older he too ran to fires, and the two dogs were inseparable. On one occasion a large dog of the cur species attacked Dash and beat him. The latter went to the truck house where Sport was lying asleep on the floor, walked him up, nosed him, and evidently in some way made him com prehend what had happened. The two dogs started off together, and members of the company followed at distance to see what would happen, when they saw Dash and Sport set upon the unfortunate cur and give him terrible thrashing. Dash was killed by being run over by the truck on it's way to a fire and Sport mourned him sincerely.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-15

Ohio has had 6, 300 laws since its organiza. tion as state,. and all but 1,2oo of these had been specifically repealed when the revised statutes were codifed in 1880, and of the ,. 200 75o were temporary or obsolete. The average life of law is about five years ir Ohio. This, we suppose, is good argu- ment for annual sessions of the Legislature.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-15

The sentimentalism of French iuries has recently been Illustrated in the case of Lar dillet, Dauphin and Frachet, three young rufians who brutally murdered an old shop keeping woman, in order to rob her of her small savings. During the trial, Dauphin, youth of seventeen, exhibited signs of peni- tence, and assured the jury that, if he were let of, he would volunteer into the marines
 By the verdict his two companions in crime
 were found guilty ''with extenuating circum- stances," and sentenced respectively to six years hard labor and four years imprisonment, while Dauphin was
 acquitted. But before he was dis charged from custody the following note,
 signed by all the jurymen, was handed to him
 with the permission of the court ''Dauphin is informed by the members of the jury that he has only been acquitted because no pre-
 vious offence was proved against him as hav- ing been punished by the law. The jury ad- vises this young man to carry out his inten- tion to enter the corps of marines, thus aton- ing for 8 first fault; and to serve his countrys flag with honor and fidelity.''
 The factory law enacted in Switzerland in 1877 is said to have worked well. By this law factory owners are required to report to medical authorities are to investigate each case and report thereon to the officers of the canton-aH deaths or bodily injuries occurring in their factories. Owners are also made responsible in damages for all such deaths or injuries occurring to employees while within line of their duty, unless it is shown that the employer was free from fault
 The employment of children under fourteen in factories is also prohibited, and the ap-- pointment of national inspectors is provided for. In 1869, as an incomplete investigation showed, the working, and even overworking, of small children was not uncommon in Swift zerland; in G64 factories 9, $40 children were found working, mostly girls; all were under 16 and nearly 800 were under 12; and in some instances the children were worked all night, twelve hours at stretch. This evil has been already largely reduced by the present law, and it has also worked a good result in decreas- injuries, although some manufacturers have omitted to make reports in fear of the inves- tigation. Covers for circular saws, supports for driving belts, self-closing doors for matches, safety catches for elevators, and other appliances for prevention have been adopted. Many mill-owners have organized 8 society for preventing boiler explosions, which they seek to accomplish by engaging experts to make frequent inspection and to instruct fremen in charge; proposal has been made to require such inspection by law. The amount of damages payable for injuries or death is made by the law determinable by the courts according to circumstances; some employers have relieved themselves of res possibility by insuring their workmen.