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able record. The general occupied box
with friend and seemed highly pleased
with the performance. the accomplished
Mile Rhea being with him a prime
favorite.
Mr.. E. D. Price, the very efficient repre-
sentative of the John Mccullough compa-
ny, arrived in the city yesterday, and is
looking after the interests of his company;
which opens in st. Paul on the 18th inst.
for one week. Mr.. Price brings the cheer
full intelligence that the health of Mr..
Mccullough has been completely restored,
and the company have been playing to an
immense business. Last week they played
in Denver, their engagement being the
most successful ever given in that city.
"The Hoop of Gold," described as
realistic, thrilling melodrama, on the style
of The World and Black Flag, will be pro-
duced for the first time in this country at
the Grand Opera house, Brooklyn, Sept.
II. 1t is from the pen of Mortimer Nur-
doch, and has been played with great sEc-
cess in London, having had a successful
run there of over 400 performances. New
scenery will be painted especially for this
production. and the cast, we are assured,
will be exceptionally strong. Charles
Overton and Leslie Allen have purchased
the right for this country.
Mr.. Henry Irving will be accompanied
to America by Joseph Hatton, the promi-
nent auth Or jCu :nalist, who will devote
his time while with Mr.. Irving to writing
that gentleman's impression of the coun-
try. These will be published on the re
turn to England, and are expected ito add
no little to the abundanfstore of American
notes already in the market. Surprise IS
expressed at Mr.. Hatton's acceptance Of
such a commission, and some of his
friends think that his own impressions
might be much more to the point than
any version he can make of ideas commun-
icated to him by Irving. Mr.. Hatton may,
however, act in the double capacity of
Scribe and mentor, and his advise may
possibly be of more service than his pen.
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The Northern Countru.

The building and operation of the
Northern Pacific railroad has resulted in
proofs of the resources of the country,
traversed by this line, and knowledge of
its climate. soil and water, which have dis
PEELED all the illusions which existed when
Gov. Stevens began his survey and which
Mr.. Davis adroitly used in favor of the
southern route. There are no deserts and
but little of waste land. From st. Paul TO
about one hundred and thirty miles west
of the Missouri the road is through an ag-
ricultural country which will ultimately be
closely settled by farmers engaged in
wheat raising and successfully Gull
tivating all crops of the northern half
of the temperate zone. The country along
the mountain section of the road, with ex-
ception of the river valleys and the bench
lands which may be irrigated, are chiefly
valuable for minerals. timber and grazing.
In Washington and Oregonthere are extern
slve areas of valuable agricultural lands.
The business of stock raising in western
Dakota and northern Montana already
furnishes, the road a large business. The
mineral wealth OF the mountain regions,
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conservatory, street arch, bridges, stone
walls, boats, etc, etc.
DRAMATIC GOSSIP.
The pastweek has been a busy season
with Managers Scott and Mrs. Chas. Hams,
of the Opera house, both of whom are to
be congratulated upon The successful week
Just closed. Mrs. Hams, who is at the
business Office constantly, has beer the re-
ciplent of several deserved compliments
from the professional people with whom
she has come in business contact.
DUTIES "Keart and Hand" has been do
ing we'll at Daly's, New York.
Mile Aimee arrived in New York from
Europe on August 81.
Maurice Grau and Maurice Strakesch
have returned from Europe.
Modjeska opens at the Grand Opera
house, Chicago, tomorrow evening.
Nat Goodwin opens at Hooley's Chicago
threatre this week.
Margaret Mather is playing to good
business at McVicker's theatre Chicago.
The ''Fun on the Bristol" party opened
their engagement at the Brooklyn Park
theatre last week.
Barnums greatest on earth has pitched
its canvas in the blue grass region OF
Kentucky.
The Devils Auction" has been playing
to big business at the Fourteenth street
theater, New York.
'Vera" failed to draw at the Union
Square theater, New York, and the com
pany hes disbanded.
The "Silver King" has closed its favorite
week of success at Haverly's theater,
Chicago.
Mr.. Thomas W. Keene opens his season
in Chicago, September I'd. Mr.. Keene,
who has thus far met with marked sue
cess, will this year have the strongest COM
pany that has yet supported him. Mr..
Hayden Will conduct the business.
Carrots in the title of new play
brought out at the Windsor theatre, New
York, last week. The Dramatic Times
says it is supposed to be illustrative of
frontier life and that it is composed of the
usual number of miners, red-nosed colo
s, red haired wild flowers of the noun
tarns, bad Indians, etc.
Among those who witnessed the Mile
Rhes performance at the Opera house last
night was the veteran southern soldier,
General P. G. T. Beauregard, of memoir
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Northern

ests and fortunes of those two companies.
Then an auxiliary company the Oregon
g. Extraordinarily was formed with a
paid-up capital of S30,000,000 to maintain
control of the united companIes,to advance
money on construction account and to
perfect their system by the construction
and purchase of branch lines. In this
auxiliary company has since been created
the st. Paul, Chicago & North Pacific COM
pany, which owns the line from Brainard
to st. Paul, the terminal grounds in this
city, and has the right to defend
down the Mississippi. The bonds
of the Northern Pacific company for con-
struction of the main line, have been
faysrably negotiated and the work of
building the road has been pushed as
fast as men and money could push it.
At the close of the company's fiscal year
of 1882, under date of September 21st
President Willard in his annual report
wrote:
"The management can now point to the
fact that it has finished two hundred and
seventy FIVE miles of road, graded one
hundred and fifty miles additional, bought
and paid for sufficient rails for the entire
gap between the two ends of the main
line, and made, besides, the current dis
bursements for. motive power, rolling
stock, the Bismarck bridge, the great
Bozeman and Helena tunnels, and other
heavier portions of the work, 1Cithout de-
liueTing single bond to the syndicate from
December last till September 9th" This
was accomplished by the aid of the aux
Hilary company, which has advanced mon
ey as required for construction and is re-
imbursed on completion of track and &C
ceptance by the government, when the
bonds of the company issue to the syndi-
cate which subscribed for them, and which
syndicate has had no delay in placing
them with conservative investors.
Since about thesdate of the Presidents
report of last year 4S5 miles of track has
been laid on the main line, completing
the connection between the eastern and
western divisions and giving the company
a through railway line from Lake Superior
and the head of navigation of the Missis
sippi river to Pacific tide water on the Co
lumbia river.
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that the active work of construction was
renewed by the commencement of grading
operations west of the Missouri river.
Mr.. Billings continued to be president
of the company for two years, or until
May, 1881, when he resigned the Office.
On the date of Mr.. Billings resignation
the Missouri division was completed about
$50 miles, to the Little Missouri; the first
100 miles of which had beeen accepted by
the government, and the last fifty miles
accepted conditionally upon certain i'm
provements required by the government
examiners. The Pend d'Oreille division,
beyond the Rockies, had also been graded
a distance of about 100 miles, and few
miles of track had been laid. The Cas-
SETON branch had been completed to Elm
river, thirty -one miles, and grading COM
menced on its continuation to Goose
river.
M. A. II. Barney temporarily succeeded
Mr.. Billings to the presidency, with Mr..
T. F. Cakes, vice president, until the next
regular meeting of the stockholders, when,
at the organization of the directory imme-
diately following, Mr.. Henry Willard was
elected president, and Mr.. t. F. Cakes was
reelected vice president.
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blow is to be struck. Immediately upon
the hammer coming into contact with the
golden spike the circuit will be complete
and the electric shock given. At Helena will
be an automatic repeater which will in
stantiy convey the shock tc another circuit
extending to Mandan, where another auto
matte repeater will send the swift winged
messenger through the wires to ST. Paul,
and from st. Paul it will 60 OF to Chicago,
Washington, New York, New Orleans, and
every other point. At the same time the
blow will in the same manner be announc-
ed at Portland, Oregon. At st. Paul and
Oregon and at New York the event will be
instantly announced to the public by the
discharge of cannon. This will be effect
ed in the following way: At st.
Paul cannon will be plac-
ed at Smiths point, near
the Northern Pacific Offices and will be
connected with the Offices by telepraphic
loop. Connected with a dynamo at the
cannon will be platenum wire which will
pass through the ''touch hole'' of the can
non into the powder; the dynamo will be
working, when the blow struck upon the
gotten spike with the hammer bringing
the two ends of the Geographic wire to-
gether and completing the Circuit, the
electricity will heat the platenum and dis
charge the cannon. And although the
place where..the spike will be driven is up
wards of thousand miles from st. Paul
the cannon will be fired at the very instant
of time that the hammer strikes the golden
spike. This seems incredible to many
people and yet, although marvellous is
simply explained. If wire could be
placed girding the whole world without
obstruction and the two ends of the wire
were npon the same table message sent
by one hand of the operator would be re-
ceived by the other at the same moment
not thousandth part of a second inter
vening so that the message traversed the
space of some $4,000 miles in 'less than
no time" The simplest way to explain
this perhaps is the following: If one were
to get water pipe lwelve inches or twelve
feet or twelve miles in length and fill il
quite full of water, the very moment an
other drop was added or forced in at one
end drop would flow out at tie other, an6
this would be the fact if the pipes were
$4,000 miles long. Again, if the filled
pipe was closed at each end by fine dia
phram, the moment the diaphram was
touched at one end with the fnger the
shock would be felt at the other. And thi;
would be the case if the pipe was 12,00t
miles long (if it were possible), instead o.
twelve inches. This is precisely the case
with the electric wire which is filled with
the electric fluid,
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The Northern, Pacific System.

The Northern Pacific system, including
its branch and allied lines, (all operated
under the one management is as fol-
lows: The main line, from st. Paul to
Portland, about 1900 miles. Branches east
of the mountains Brainard to
Duluth aud Superior. Little
Falls & Dakota; Northern Pacific, Fergus
& Black Hills; Fargo & Southwestern;
Jamestown & Northern; and National Park
line-in all about 400 miles. West of the
mountains Portland to Kalama; Palouse
branch, to Moscow, Idaho; branches TO
Lewiston, Idaho, and Baker City, Oregon;
Portland to the southern boundary of Or
egon,and connection with the Union Pacific
branch from San Franciscan all about
1000 miles. To this may be added tbs
navigation Of the Columbia, Willamette
and Snake rivers and Puget Sound, carried
on by thirty steamboats,, and likewise the
whole of the coastwise trade of the North
Pacific coast, from the northern boundary
of Mexico to Alaska, carried on by twenty
six ocean steamers-all owned or operated
by the allied companies
The annual report of the company,
which will cover the construction account
to the present time, has not been publish
ed and no accurate statement can now be
made of the total cost of the road, but it
is estimated that the Wisconsin and Cas-
cade divisions WILDE built before the aggre-
gate cost of construction and equip
ment will reach the early es-
innate of Chief Engineer Johnson.
Up to this date the cost of construction
cannot be closely estimated, but may be
Appropriated as follows. In the reorgan-
ization of the company after the Jay
Cooke failure the bonded Indebtedness was
retired by the issue of $51, 100000 of pre-
ferred stock, and the common stock was
about 100000 of the preferred stock
has beer retired by exchange of lands,
leaving the total stock common and pre-
ferred, $91, 100000. On construction &C
count the kond issue is $4,000 per
mile and rhe aggregate about
J $4O,00000s. These bonds are secured by
mortgages upon the franchises, property
and rights of property of the company.
That is the mortgage covers the land
grant, which is nearly equal to the bond
issue, one acre for each dollar. The
grand total of incumbrance upon the road,
capital stock and debt, including every
sort of cost, is about $131,000,00O. This
leaves, less Chief Engineer Johnson's esti-
mate for a single line from Lake Super
ior to Puget sound, $26,000,000 for con-
struction of the Wisconsin and Washing
ton divisions of the road, which will add
about 400 miles to Mr.. Johnson's estimate
of total lenpth of track
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st. Paul It's Eastern Gate.rau.

Among the most notable acquisitions by
the Northern Pacific company during the
present year was its purchase of 800 acres
of ground for terminal uses within the
limits of this city, where the operating
headquarters of the company are located.
Here the company will have
connection with all the railway
lines of the south and east and here will
naturally tend the commerce of all the
country the road traverses. st. Paul has
grown with the Northern Pacific and IS
prepared to meet all demands uponIthe
capital and the enterprise of its citizens.
1t is the eastern gateway of the new
empire of industrial enterprise and its
commercial capital.
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vantageously upon the Cheyenne river
As its name indicates it is placed in the
midst of a fine valley sheltered on all sides
by low bluffs which form the edges of an
elevated rolling country of great fertility.
Among the principal buildings
may be mentioned splendid hotel erect
ed at cost of $4,000 and public hall.
There are two newspapers published in
jamestown, one daily and the other weekly.
Considering the size and age of the city
quite Touring business is carried on,
and in every particular the city is in a
fourishlng and prosperous condition.
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ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Prince Bismarck has arrived at GOstin.
The steamer J. o. Throop, of the Evansville
L Cairo Packet company, sank on Friday.
The Mississippi press association Will have a
reception at Chicago, Sept. 10.
There were twelty-nine deaths from yellow
fever at Havana last week.
A fire in New Orleans last night destroyed the
Barton boot and shoe store and hardware store.
Loss $4,000.
Great apprehensions are entertained for the
safety of the fishing feet on the Newfoundland
banks.
Hon. E. NJ. Cults, member of congress from
the Sixth district Of Iowa, died at his home IN
Oskaloosa, yesterday, aged fifty,
Ed Nichols, striking blacksmith at the C..
c. c.. & l. railroad shops at Delaware. Ohio,
dangerously stabbed man named Aeefe last
night.
The official report shows there as been q, 5I3
deaths by cholera in upper Egypt since the out
break OF the epidemic, and of these fourteen
were of British soldiers.
It is rumorel Boston, with foundation. that
a transfer of 900 of the Atchison. Topeka
Il Santa Fe Railroad company's stock has Just
been made to the -arriEgs, Of England.
The British flag ship Northampton has left for
/ Croque on the Newfoundland coast, to investi-
gate an outrage recently perpetrated there by
Frenchmen British subject.
L
Orleans struck. yesterday, for 35 per cent. ad-
vance in wages IN New Orleans, and all but three
of the firms of the city acceded to their de-
mands.
Several thousands of volumes of books
shipped from the United States by three Mon
treal publishers, were seized by the United
States custom authorities at Rouse's Point, yes
terday.
The passenger rate war of the roads between
! st. Louis and Cincinnati eliminated last night
| by the Louisville & Nashville dropping rates 30
] 1.5O on frst-class fares. The regular rates
, $40.
| Fourteen COWS have died OF the ''bloody
! mine'' which has broken out on farm in New
berry, Mass, and the disease battles the veterl-
nary surgeons. These are the only cases OF the
! disease ever occurring in this country, though
| it is common in England.
The Champion Billiard Game to be Hon IA!
| Paris.
| New YORK, Sept. 1.-The arrangements for
: great billiard match for championship between
Jacob Schefer, of Chicago, and Maurice
! Vignaux, of Paris, was completed to-day. The
articles of agreement signed by the representa-
| tiTes of the players stpulate the game Is to be
! played at balk ne, on the five by ten Bruins
! wick & Bake table. The game consists of {, 900
! points, to occupy five nights. Vignauxs repre-
sentatives won the toss for the choice of the
! battle ground, and named the cafe of the Grand
! hotel in Paris Sch8fer wanted to play IN Chi
cago Five hundred dollars side were depos-
tied with A. r. Frescher, treasurer of the
| Brunswick & Bake Co. The remainder of the
stake money is to be posted Oct. 81. The game
will be played late in November Sch@fer will
| be represented in Paris by Maurice DAILY while
the details are being arranged.
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Bismarck.

Bismarck, the capital of Dakota terri
tory, named after the great German states
man, is city of but few years but rapid
and sturdy growth. 1t stands upon a wide
plateau overlooking the Missouri valley at
point where the majestic river takes a
sweep to the western side of its bed, and
Bismarck is therefore about mile from
the waters edge. Bismarck possesses
some very handsome blocks and its hotel
accommodation is as good as any city
west of st. Paul. As an indication OF the
extent of the trade of Bismarck 1t may be
stated that four lines of steamers run reg
ularly and discharge their cargoes here.
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Professional ScuIiing Match.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1.-The profession
al scullng match, distance thrse miles,
between P. A. Holt and James Watson for
purse of $500, on the Schuylkiil, was
won by Holt by six lengths in twenty two
minutes and nineteen seconds. The sec
ond race. distance three miles, which took
place between Dan Galanaugh and John
Glenn, was won by Galanaugh in twenty
five minutes and thirty. one seconds.
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besides the precious metals, includes coal
mines in Washington which have an out
put of 1900 tons of hard coal daily, large
beds of bituminous coal N the Bozeman
range of Montana, and inexhaustible de-
posts of metal ores which will be shipped
over the road to smelling furnaces. The
road already has large lumber trade east
and west of the mountains. In short
the Northern Pacific country has the re-
sources for employing and maintaining a
dense population and giving the railway
larger traffic than can be had for any other
of the transcontinental lines.
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BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

King Alfonso is expected at Vienna
Sept. 9.
Loring and Avery's tannery, in Sandy
Creek, n Y, was burned out yesterday.
The coinage at the United States minis
for August was $5,318, 1867, of which 2,34G,
600 were standard silver dollars.
The knight Templar Communicates of
Pittsburg, Pa, and Boston, Mass, passed
through Chicago on their way home yes
terday, and the victorious Demolais, Of
Louisville, will arrive there to-day.
The Frank James trial is set down as the
most remarkable criminal trial ever oc-
curing in Missouri. The state have made
strong case by testimony against James,
but the defense will urge the bad char
acter of Dick Lidell and the Ford family,
their chief witnesses. 1t is thought the
defense have also the best chance with the
iurV
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The Fi4lnL Stroke.

When the final blow is struck which shall
complete the grand tie of the east with the
west it will be Instantly announced at st.
Paul, Chicago, New York and in all the
leading cities of the United States. I'M
mediately upon the hammer coming in
contact with the golden spike ar
tillery will announce at all points
of these states at the supreme moment
the glorious fact. This will be accom-
plisheo by a simple and ingenious con-
trivance. There will be wire fastened to
the golden spike which will contiue to
Helena and return to the place where the
spike is being driven and will terminate
on the head of the hammar with which the
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NORTHERN PACIFIC HEADQUARTERS AT
ST. PAUL, THE EASTERN TERMINUS.

The whole of the upper Missouri trade to
while the trade in agricultural implements
and farm products is extensive. There is
an iron bridge across the Missouri which
cost $1,500,0O0 and President Willard of the
Northern Pacific will lay the foundation
stone of the new capitol when passing
through on the present triumphant trip.
Upon the heights in the background of the
cut is Fort Abraham Lincoln, the river
Missouri running between those bluffs and
Bismark.
TdJ!ey CitU.
Valley City is the county seat of Barnes
county, Dakota, and is situated most az
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Tie VIllard Control.

In but little more than two years since
Mr.. Willard and his associates obtained
control of the Northern Pacific property,
they have completed four divisions of the
main line of road, aggregating 1913 miles,
of which they found less than 200 miles
graded. They have perfected the connec-
ton of their road with st. Paul by acquir-
ing the equivalent of over one hundred
miles of road. They have built and pur-
chased several important branches in Min
nesota and Dakota. They have connected
the main line with Lake Superior by sec
ond track (the beginning of the Wisconsin
division), and have acquired valuable
and extensive terminal grounds at
Superior, Minneapolis and st. Paul.
They have given their company first
class credit in the leading financial mar
kets and they have interested in its con-
struction and in their large plans for i'm
Provement and extension of the property
the solid investors IF this country, Eng
land and central Europe.
The public history of the operations of
Mr.. Willard and his associates, in col nee
ton with the Northern Pacific railway, is
SO familiar to our readers that only brief
statement of leading points need be made
They began with Mr.. Wizards call upon
his friends for the famous blind pool"-
that they should entrust to him for invest
ment without explanation, a sum of eight
millions OF dollars. The response was
in tenders of twice the sum asked. With
this sufficient control was obtained of the
Oregon Railway & Navigation company
and the Northern Pacific Railway company
to enable the Willard party las il may bt
called for convenience to unite The inter
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Where TheJ Can Eight.

Fort WORTH, Sept. 1 Parties tonight
telegraphed SHADES manager the follow
ing: arrange for the Slade-Mltchell
fight to come off here. All expenses from
any point in the United States Will DE
paid and the men can fight all they please
and no interference from officers guaran-
loo