Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-23
Ispecial Telegram TO the Globe


were opened to-day for the marble work of
the st. Louis custom house. The Burling
ton Manufacturing company, of Chicago,
and Davidson Sons and R. II. Ormsby, of
Milwaukee, were among the bidders, but
are underbid by New York party, who
probably will get the contract
AMERICAN PORK.
The recent developments in regard to
American pork and trichin@ have brought
to the surface one curious fact, and one
which does not reflect much credit upon
the department of agriculture. That fact
is the entire absence of any data bearing
upon this subject in the department of ag-
rjculture. There is "a product, solely the
production of the farm, the exports of
which last year were over $100,000,000,
and yet the department. of agri-
culture has nothing about it, has
made no investigation of the sub
ject, and if a Frenchman or German
should assert that one-half the hogs of the
country were alive with trichine, it could
not produce a figure or fact to prove
otherwise. Your correspondent called at
the department to obtain some facts which
would aid the packers of the West in show
ing how unjust are the charges made by
foreign nations, and was informed that
the department had no statistics upon the
subject, and had never given it any atten-
ton.
"Have you nobody who has given the
question any study?' was asked.
Nobody"
How does it come that subject so
large and long agitated and so important
to the agricultural com munity has not re-
ceived attention."
The gentleman asked these conundrums
could not tell except that he supposed no
body had ever. been set at it. He thought
the treasury had some tune ago published
a small work on the subject,
but careful examination of
the library of the agricultural
department failed to even produce copy
of that. The Canadian authorities have
recently made some Investigations at the
slaughter houses, and have found that one
hog in every 1000 is thus affected. When
this fact comes to the knowledge of Ger
many and France, it is probable Canadian
pork will also be quarantined against.
TEE FENIAN TROUBLES IN BRITAIN.
Capt. Edward O'Meagher Condor, so
long imprisoned as a FeniaD, and who so
narrowly escaped execution for the same
offense, was standing on the corner near
the treasury building to-day, awaiting the
1870 signal which calls the galley slaves of
the departments to their work, when your
correspondent asked him what he thought
of the cause and effect of the recent events
in England.
"That's a difficult question to answer"
he said. ''Of course there are men and
women in England who have been driven
from their homes in Iceland, and who are
naturally in desperate condition of both
mind and stomach, so to speak. 1t
would not be strange to see such persons
commit excesses. The military are kept
in Ireland to enforce the most outrageous
laws, and it is not improbable that some
body might think that an excitement Gre
ated in England would tend to bring the
soldiers back to that country out of Ire
land, and so give temporary relief. But
as for these crimes being the result of any
plans of the land league, or of any organ
lied body of the Irish, don't believe a
word of it."
"What do you know of Lady Florence
Dixie?"
PERSONALLY know little of her, though
have reason to remember her mother with
great gratitude and affection. Her moth
er, you know, is the marchioness of
Queensbury. During the time of my i'm
prisonment over there she took great in
terest in our cause, and after 1 was
sentenced to death wrote a very earnest
letter in my behalf. To the family of ne
$500"
"What do you understand as having
been the cause of the attack upon her?''
II suppose the fact that she has attacked
| the land league. The family to which she
belongs-I mean her brothers and sisters
were somewhat eccentric, and it may have
| been her eccentricities which had to do
with the feeling which seems to have been
| aroused against her. The other members
| of the. family are noted for their eccen-
| tricities. The Marquis of Queensbury,
| one of her brothers, was the author of the
rules of the prize ring. Her mother, who
was very kind-hearted woman, encour-
aged her daughters to found school and
a home for homeless boys, and one of
these daughters became SO enamored of
one of these boys that she married him
and went with him into the bake-shop
business, to the great scandal of the aris-
tocratic friends of the family"
ADDRESS YOUR LETTERS PROPERLY.
In view of the large increase in mail mat
ter pestmastefs are urged by the postoffice
authorities to notify the public that the de-
livery of mails will be greatly expedited if
it is addressed to street and number or to
postofice box number. Business men
especially, they say. should request CORE
| spondents to be particular in addressing
/ matter in this manner.
STORM SIGNALS.
| Acting Postmaster General Hatton, al
the request of the secretary of war, issued
an order directing the postmasters al
about seventy-fve points, quite generally