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Important Fire Insurance Decision.

Kavanagh sells fine lots on Wilkin street on
Tuesday at 10 a. m.
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By order of the committee.
MICHAEL DoRAN, Chairman.
st Paul, July 6, 1888.
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OFFERED HIGHER PAY.

WASHINGTON, July 28.-The Baltimore &
Ohio Telegraph company, through its
agent here to-day, submitted to its opera
tors individually proposition to increase
their salaries if they would return to work
at once In the following rates: To those
receiving $40 and $50 each per month an
increase of $25 per month; to those re-
ce1ving $50 and above per month an in
crease of SIS per month. No guarantee
however, was offered that these prices
would continue. There was nothing writ
ten but the list of proposed increases, the
other part of the negotiations being car
ried on verbally. The Baltimore & Ohio
operators politely referred the company's
agent to the Brotherhood, which they said
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THE SERVICE IMPROVING.

ST. LOUIS, July 28.-The service i'm
proves daily, and business is now transact
ed at this Office with nearly, if not quite,
the same promptness as before the strike
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BALTIMORE, July 28.-The American
Rapid telegraph has notified the Baltimore
d Ohio telegraph that it cannot receive
messages from that company to be for
warded over the American Rapid wires, the
operators refusing to handle them. On
the other hand the Baltimore & Ohio COM
pany have sent a notice to the American
Rapid company that no more of its busi-
ness will be allowed over the Baltimore &
Ohio wires.
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FASHIONABLE.

Said loving wife to her husband ''Do you know, dear, that butterfly ornaments are very fashionable?' Perhaps so,' he grufiy replied; 'but grub is the great desid- eratunn. ."-Exchange.
 The editor that wrote The was member of an old family of musicians" and when it appeared in the paper it read "a member of an old family of nuisances." One assertion was just as true as the other, but the editor nearly swore- l--.-.. . .....-.. -...
 A lady in a neighboring city, whose hus-
 band had remodelled the front of their resi- dence while the rear was badly d1lap1dated,
 said the front of-her house was Queen Anne
 and the rear Crazy Jane style-Boston Com mercial Bulletin.
 stAre your domestic relations agreeable ?"
 was the question put to au unhappy looking specimen of humanity. ''Oh, my domestic relations are all right" was the reply; lit is
 my wife's relations that causing the trou- ble. "-Rochester Post-Express.
 II don't want no rubbish, no fine senti- ments, if you please" said the widow who
 was asked what kind of an epitaph she de- sired for her late husbands tombstone.
 stLet it be short and simple, something like this: William Johnson, aged 75 years. The
 good die young. "-Brooklyn Eagle.
 Is it because audiences do not know when to cry that the fiddlers have to vail at every pathetic passage in 8 play, or is it only trick of the fiddIers to tune their instruments at a moment when, everybody being en- grossed in the agony going on upon the stage, nobody will be likely to notice them? Boston Transcript.
 The other day bright little girl was list ening to her mother, who was reading stories to her, in one of which the name of his sa- tanic highness was given. Mamma" She exclaimed, ''who is the devil ?" ''Why, my
 child" the mother answered, hesitatingly,
 'tI can't tell you exactly" 'Oh, well, never mind" was the interruptive exclamation of the little one, stI1l ask grandpa. I've heard him mention him !''-Elmira Advertiser. Plantation philosophy T heard white man de udder day say dat in all ob his plantation 'Sperience he nebber seed honest nigger. Dat may be true, an wid equal aireckness de gentleman coulder said dat honest white men is sorter scarce. Oar Is certain amount ob deceit what it stands @ man in han ter prac tice When has pair ob brooches dat Is l too short for me, rolls lem up little. Elf folks sees dat yer brooches is too | short, dey commences ter question yer l success in business, believin' dat yer had ter take any kind l ob clothes dat come de handiest, but when 1 yer rolls up yer brooches dey thinks dat 1t it l matter ob choice. I al'ers takes of my hat when a white man speaks ter me. Dis piece ob p'Iiteness was impressed on me when
 was chunk ob boy. One day ole marse called me inter de house an ginter talk ter me. Putty soon he lifted his walkin' stick an knocked me down, an' Ise since come ter de 'clus1on dat 1t was case l didn't take de hat of an I'se been monst'ous plite eber since den, an come ter think ob it, dar aint no extra expense connected wld de fack.- | Arkansaw Traveller.
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SouruaI xuO Gourisr.
Monday, April B, 1883.
THE TAXATION OF RAIERoADs.

THE TAXATION OF RAILROADS.
 The railroads of this State are taxed one per cent. on the market value of their stock and the amount of their debts, funded and floating, or the market value of such debts if below par. This plan has been in operation since ''the war time," when it was found necessary to greatly increase taxes. Before the war the railroad tax was one-third of one per cent. on the market value of the stock only. The railroads are still paying war tax, although the war taxes have been taken off from every other interest, and the mar ket value of their stock has risen, like most other securities, to an abnormally high fig ure, owing to the general lowering of the rate of interest. In 1882 the railroads paid in taxes $4s4, ,732, over $2oo, ,oo0 more than was collected in 1879, and over $1oS, ,ooo more than was collected in 1881. When the war tax was laid on railroads the State was spend ing at the rate of $5, ,oOo, ,ooo 8 year. It is now spending less than third of that amount. Savings bank taxes, which were doubled during the war, were reduced six years ago to the old figures of 1863. Mutual life insurance companies. which were taxed one per cent. in 1865, are taxed for 1883 three -tenths of one per cent, and after 1883 their tax will be one fourth of one per cent These facts and others equally interesting and significant were brought to the attention of the Finance committee of the Legislature, who were so impressed by them that they have reported in favor of reducing the tax on railroads one-eighth of one per cent. This is not very great reduction, and if it is made will still leave the tax on railroads far above that on other property taxed by the State. The petition of the railroad companies to be relieved of a portion of their burden is OCT tainly we'll supported by facts and arguments. One of the strong reasons given is that as the tax on ssrailroad property is not paid in case of most of the roads by the stockhold- CTS, because they receive no dividends, it must be paid by the publicly those who buy railroad tickets or send freight And 1t is also pointed out that reduction will en- able the companies to spend moro in making their roads better and safer to travel en-
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the antipathy of his eountrymen for serious tiens of music to accomplish this miracle
 Wagner, too, had against him his nationality and the zeal of his apostles and so the French wits did not spare the music of the future and it's Teuton Messiah, who laid himself open to the shafts of satire by his excessive vanity and pretensions. At the concert the public howled, and almost came to blows with the few who ventured to pro- test In the press the critics were all against the intruder. Even Hector Berlioz wrote, in the Journal des Debats, that he could not agree with those who declare 'that the ear ought to become accustomed to everything, to series of diminished sevenths ascending and descending to triple dissonances with out preparation or resolution, to atrocious moduIations." The Italian Fiorentino, the shining critical light of the Constitutionnel, fell foul of the composers personal appear ance 'tM. Wagner" he wrote, looks like a notary in the execution of his functions His physiognomy is intelligent, his air stiff and starchy. He has fine, noble and high forehead the lower part of the face IS crushed and vulgar. One might imagine that two fairies had presided over his birth the one angry, the other kind and affection ate. The fairy of harmony caressed and beautifed the brow, from which so many bold conceptions and strong thoughts were to issue: the fairy of melody, foreseeing the harm this child was destined to do her, sat on his face and hattensd his nose" The next day Fiorsntinos mot went the round of Paris and Wagner was judged May Allan
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MAGGIE KEPPEL,s ACQUIrTAL.

Fathers and mothers in Brooklyn, New York, are not very well pleased by the &C., quittal of Maggie Keppel, who was charged with the abduction of little Lizzie Selden. The little girl was enticed away from her home in August last, and for three days could not be found. She was at.last discovered ly- ing in bed by the side of her abductor. Mag gie Keppel was of course arrested and was found to be 8 person of rather weak mind. She denied having entioed the child from it's home and told a rambling story, adhering consistently to but one statement-that she found the child abandoned in one of the streets of New York. The assertion appear ed to be satisfactorily disproved by the iden- tiication of the prisoner by several persons as the woman who had been seen In the neighborhood of the house of Mr. Selden, just previous to the disappearance of his daughter. It appeared, however, that the child had been treated kindly and that Mag gie had spent all the money she possessed in purchasing luxuries for her
 When the woman was brought up for exam ination before the magistrate her counsel in- terposed the plea of insanity. She was, how ever, committed, indicted by the grand jury and day fixed for her trial. At the request of her lawyers Judge Moore appointed a commission to inquire into her sanity, and the gentlemen who composed it, after careful inquiry, determined that she was responsi- ble for her actions. As the trial went on it was seen that the only real question for the jury to decide was whether or not the woman was sound in mind and therefore fully responsible for her actions. The affirmative on this point was the report of an official commission, the members of which, after most searching inquiries, had declared her sane- The negative was taken by three physicians, called by the defence, who had, it is said, made only casual and partial examinations of the accused The jury confded in the physicians and found her not guilty. The Brooklyn Union calls the result of the trial a miscarriage of jus tice. and says: It was proven during the trial that Maggie Keppel has a remarkable and uncomfortable affection for children-a trait in her character which may at any time lead her to repetition of the serious offence against society which she has already eom- mitted. The verdict is proof of the utter unrsliability of expert testimony upon the subject of sanity, and another evidence of the uncertainty of juries. If Maggie Keppel is sane then she should certainly be sent to prison, in order that she may have no oppor- tunity to abduct other children if she is in. sane the proper place for her is an asy. lum, where she will haveno chance of indulg. :.z ea~ as,~ their homes with her. The finding of the jury will not be one to commend itself to the parents of Brooklyn.
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The Pauper Question.

lby U. O heIIORR III hQo Gnoy ASlohsAS'J
 A characteristic of modern benevoaence is its recognition of the solidarity of huma an society. By virtue of this fact, man can no longer be regarded as self-poised, isolated, unit, whose character is the result of his own determination, but as the creature Of hls en- vironment. Two fruitful inferences proceed from tbis principle first, the inadaquacy of mere physical instrumentalities to work change in the condition of the debased, since these do not reaah their fellowships; and secondly, the complicity of society in the evils of it's wretched classes. OutlaWry is fiction the word of the magistrate cannot undo the deed of God. For veal or harm, every livirg g soul is an integral part of so- ciety his deterioration is disorder in the whsle boiy. Probably these conclusions have not been formulated in the minds of many wise and effective disciples of charity, but th y emerge none the less from all care. full investigations into the situation and re- quirenents of the miserable, and they are disclosed in the strenuous efforts of thought full philanthropists to reform the institutions and methods of the community, as an lndts- pensable prerequisite to the reformation Of persons. Let this contrast serve for an H. lustration Professor Fawcett in his work on Pauperism, tells us that an English land lord desirous of improving the character Of his agricultural tenants, whose bestiality was attributed to overcrovding, enlarged his cot tages by adding rooms, so that the family could separate into decent privacy. Instead of this, however, his tenants sublet the new rooms and thus increased the evils These laborers were not conscious of any wants which could not be satisfied by herding in single room. Their character was unchang- ed, and mere mechanical improvement in their surroundings could not alter their hab- it's If Miss Octavia Hill met with better re- suits in Barrett's Court, she was not less con- vinced than the landlord mentioned that no reformation wss practicable among the ob- iects of her solicitude, until their habitations were suited to good manners, and reflected upon them the standards of respectable socl- ety. But she knew equally well that her presence must enforce 8 decent discipline, and link her wards to higher order of feel ing and motive, or her tenants would go on as of old, turning the passage-ways into the receptacles of garbage. and hewlng the stair cases into fire-wood. Miss Hills success grew out of the recognition of two facts :: the complicity of society in the degradation of her wards, and their capacity to respond to moral influences. They were the victims of neglect, and hence worse sufferers in charao- ter than in circumstances; but they were al so human souls. susceptible to the order and beauty of discipline, when it was presented by one whose trained faculties attached her in hundred joyous, honorable ways to that society which discipline unites and regally opdoUG
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Waener In Paris.

The incidents of Wagner's attempt to con-
 Quer the Parisians during his second resi-
 dence in Paris are euriously Illustrative of
 the national character. He gave concert at
 the Theatre des Italiens on January 25, 1S60
 The programme comprised fragments from
 the Phantom Ship, Tannhauser, Tristan and
 Isault and Lohengrin. The concert ended in
 almost riot, and the press was nearly unan-
 imous in eondemning the music of Wagner.
 On March 13, 1861, Tannhauser was per
 formed at the Grand Opera by Mesdames
 Tedesco, Marie Sass and Reboux, and Mes. and whistled down, and was withdrawn after the third night. The piece had not been heard, but the press nevertheless declared
 with unanimity that trial had been given, and that now 'sthe music of the future was dead and buried" What is the explanation of this senseless opposition AS regards the representation of Tannhauser, there is se- sret history, of which something will be said shortly. But the opposition to the concert in 1860,-what was the cause of that? We might ask, in the same way, What was the cause of the hostility to the Romanticists of 1880? In all countries, innevaters of genius encounter at first an instinctive hatred on the part of the public, 8 certain ordinary and fatal resistance. In France they encoun- ter more than this. The French tempera- ment-so smart, 50 mobile, so predisposed to moekery and ridicule-lacks, precisely on &C., count of these characteristics, one quality which is indispensable for the comprehen- sion of masterpieces; I mean artlessness' simplicity, or what the French call naivete. The French have a tendency to discover the ridiculous side of grandeur of sentiments, of sublimity, of noble or terrible passions The French temperament naturally sees the great figures of mythology through the speetacles of Ofenbach. What plesses the French is agreeable, witty and slightly sentimental art, fine observation and ingen- ious satire. And so no nation equals them in comic opera, vaudeville and comedy of For them art is above all things. an amusement, a. distraction, and not 8 study. They are readily bored by anything serious, and when by chance they do admit a masterpiece on one of their stages it is only by way of a curiosity. You do not find Calderon, Goethe or Shakespeare played on ths Pariaian stage. Even Victor Hugo, a native genius, has been unable to overcome
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President Eliot of Harvard tells nothing but the truth when he says: tSeminaries bid against each other for young mendicants, who think that the community owes them a theological education" and ''the clerical pro fession has been deeply injured by beneficial endowments"
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 "These Pills invaluable in nervous disesses."- Dr. Hammond, of New York.
 "They cured me and take great pleasure n1eTdig them to dH lUhO hGUe NeorGlgiG." Mrs. Dan iel c. Hoppen, Clay Bank, Va.
 s'Dr. Bensons Pills worth their weight in gold in nervous and sick headache."-Dr. H. H. Schlich- ter, of Baltimore, now at Mechanicstown, Pa
 'I delighted t0tth their e6ects." F. ". Earnest, JonesboIo, k. Tenn.
 "Ohl Dr., do fceE much better" F. L. yansant. New Windsor, Ind
 'sDr. Bensons Pills for the of Neuralgia are sucoess."-Dr. G. P. Holman, Christianburg, Va.
 'Ihey cure neruousneSs just yOu they do." G. ". Maddox, Upper Farmount, Ind.
 Ihree bores cured nly terrible prostratio." Mrs. Jennie M. Bridge, Waupum, Wis.
 pr. Bensons Skin Cure consists of internal and ex ternal treatment at time and 1t makes the skin white, soft and smooth. It contains no poisonous drugs $1 at druggists.
 C. N Crittenton, Sole Wholesale Agent for pr. c. w. Benson's Remedies, 115 Fulton St., New York.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Prohibition is popular in Georgia. Forty counties of that State have voted it under the Iocal option law.
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The Ohio legislature has passed bill which imposes license tax of $500 on Spiritualist- ic mediums. It is doubted that this is a constitutional proceeding
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It is to be hoped that there will be quo rum in the House to day. Nobody wants to see this Legislature last longer than this week.
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Richmond, Virginia, is an interesting illus tration of t'the new South" It now has population of 70,684, being an increase of over 1000 since 1880.
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If the Russian police can arrest everybody in Russia and then arrest themsslves the Czar can be safely crowned. They are evidently working hard to arrest as many as possible.
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No molasses and water mixture, but a con- centrated extract of the active medicinal properties of roots, barks, etc., is Hoods Carsaparilla.
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in ali. The mountainous section of the far West is included in this billion acres, but on the other hand hundreds of millions of acres of arabic territory are still free from the sur veyor's chain. In Minnesota alone there re- main F, ,OO0, 900 acres unsuryeyed, in Dakota 5000, 900 acres, in Montana 80 ,0OO, 900 acres, and in the Indian territory 369, 900, 900 acres, a total area considerably more than twice as large as that of the thirteen original States.
 Prohibition evidently does not prohibit in Maine to such an extent as some would have us believe. The other day the governor and council gave an extended hearing on petitions for the appointment of special constables for the enforcement of the liquor law in Ken nsbec county. On the other hand remon- strances were presented signed by many prominent men, including three clergymen and ex-Govsrnors Connor and Williams, say ing such appointments would do no good. The hearing took wide range and showed that great deal of liquor is sold and great deal of drunkenness exists.
 Professor A. D. Mayo has written to friends in Washington an interesting and en- couraging description of his missionary edu- cational work in eastern North Carolina. He announces 8 very decided growth of interest on the subject of public education, but shows how scanty public schools are there now. His addresses were often preceded by regu- lar barbecues, attended by thousands of peo- ple The agitation upon the subject of uni versal education is growing and will be one of the chief questions upon which the inde- pendent party hopes to get political control of the State. The last Bourb bon legislature abolished county superintendents. This and other blows at what little school system the State now supports have aroused the oppos1- ton of intelligent men all over the State, who promise now to support the opposition party in it's efforts for free schools.
 The press the pulpit and the best men" in Chicago were all against the election of Mayor Harrison, but he managed to win. The Chicago Inter-Ocean makes an interest ing explanation of the result. It says that the platform upon which Harrisons oppo- nent stood was one of high license. This was construed by the saloon men as an opening wedge for prohibition. Opposition to prohi- bition under the guise of high license was their rallying cry. There were also many among the conservative classes who sympa- thized with them so far as opposition to pro- hibition in any of it's forms was concerned. To these the question of Harrisons misgoV- ernment of the city sank into insignifeance when the question of prohibition was raised. AS the Inter-Ocean puts it: ''The influence of the papers was of double character. It called out strong vote from the temperance and anti-saloon clements, but at the same time it excited more violent opposition in conservative circles The wider the circula- ton of the paper and the more zeal it mani- fested the greater influence it exerted in both T:
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ANDREW GOODMAN, S8 GROWN STREET.

8 lb can Peaches, per can 10c. Fine Marrowfat Peas, per can 10c. Fine Sweet Corn, per can 1Oc. Fine String Beans, per can 10c 3 Ib can Tomatoes, per can 9c, 3 for 25c. Fine Blaokberries, per can 1Oc Fine Cherries. per can 12o. Fine Straw berries, per can 12c Best Lima Beans, per can 12c. Wins1ow Jones Succotash per can l4c Bahama Brand Pine Apple, per can Nc. ID can Best Table Peach per can 1Sc. Best Early June Peas, 12c. Fine Blueberries per can 10c. Fine Bartlett Pears, per can 15c. Boston Baked Beans, per can 1Sc. Golden Pumpkin per can l2c. Best canned Lobster 14c. Genuine Shaker Apple Sauce in 10 lb pail reduced
 soc to 75c Just received New Creau cry Butter 31c lb. Fine Butter st 26c ID. Good Butter at 22c lb. Masons quart Fruits reduced from 75 to 3Sc Jars Durkee's Salad Dressing only 43c bottle. Queen Olives 25c bottle.
 x box Sardines 10c, < boxes 20c Pure White Clover Honey in comb 25c lb. New French eeas I8c can. 3 ID cans of Brook Trout 35c can. 3Ib cans of MAckerel, in Tomato Sauce, 3tc can 216 ID cans of Fried Smelts 35c can. English Boneless Bacon. Imported Ham Sausage.
 SSenuine Rye n mi Rock 65c per bottle. Fine Wines Spirits, Cordias, etc. Call and
 ANDREW GOODMAN, No. Ss Grown Et., Bet. Church and Temple sts., Goodman's Building
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