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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
DEFENDER oFDANC1yG,

The Rev. Mr.. THOMPSON, pastor of the
First Free Baptist church in New York, has
startled the religious circles of the metropo-
lis by preaching sermon last Sunday in
defense of dancing. Mr.. THOMPSON Sc
lected for his text the 18th verse of the 9th
chapter of Second SAMUEL, "And DAVID
danced before the LORD with all his might"
1t was pretty bold move for an orthodox
clergyman, yet his congregation were well
ion was that those who denounced
dancing were actuated by no higher
principle than that they personally
could see no pleasure in it, or because they
couldn't dance, their feet being too heavy
and their joints too stiff to glide gracefully
to the strains of music. This eminent
divine thought that there was good deal
of crankiness in the pulpits of the day with
regard to the pleasures of the young. This
was evidently intended as hit at TAI
MAGE, whose sermon against dancing a
few weeks ago created sensation.
In the opinion of the Baptist clergy
man the church suffers more from
straitened protection than it does from the
bitter attacks of infidelity and scepticism
He accounts for the lack of youthful mem
beers because the church is not made attract
i've to the young people. In reference to
this feature he says:
When was told in church that God was a
terror feared him, but when I was taught
by my mother that he loved me l learned to
love him. Dancing is religious factor and
is biblically admissible. In the song of Israel.
in their triumph over the drowned hosts of
Egypt in the Red sea, they danced. When
David returned from the slaughter of the
Philistines the women came out of all the
cities of Israel singing and dancing. Now,
rob the church of all pleasure for the young
and you shut out the young from the church.
Rob the modern dance of its mixture of sexes
and it will have lost its real life. / can see no
harm in the modern dance when INDUCED in
within the proper limits. That dancing is
productive of evil am only too well aware,
as is any one vino knows what goes on at the
average public balls of this city. But this is
snow is TO blame for losing the purity of its
whiteness by contact with the earth. The
only fatal dance recorded in the Bible is that
of the daughter of HERoDIAs. which resulted
in the death of JOHN the Baptist. I tell you
freely, therefore, that you may dance, leaving
it to your own eonscienees TO mark the line be-
tween temperance and excess.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
NOT WANTED.

The election of w. r. MERRIAM as mayor
will mark new era in the history of st.
Paul.-Dispatch
So it will. That is exactly what the
GLOBE has been saying. That is if Mr..
MERRIAM should ever be elected, contin-
gency of the very far future. Judging from
his legislative record, the election of Mr..
MERRIAM to the mayoralty of St. Paul
would mark an era of subordinating the
public good to private interests. 1t would
mark an era when the city'S interests would
be sacrificed in order that individual for
tunes might be accumulated by forming
rings for the purpose of bleeding the public
treasury and Matching fat jobs for the ben
eft of the members Of the ring. Judging
from Mr. MERRIAM's record as treasurer Of
the board of education his election to the
mayoralty would inaugurate an era in our
city government when public moneys
should be disbursed and no statement fur
nished the public of the manner
of disbursement, except the ipse
dixit of the discussing officer that
the money was paid out ''as per voucher"
and no voucher to be found. If Mr.. MER-
RAM should be elected, then, Judging from
the same record, the matter of a couple Of
thousand dollars or SO slipping out of sight
and no way to account for it would be al
together too small an affair to look after
and entirely beneath the dignity of the aris-
tocratic administration to be compelled to
account to the common herd for a trifling
sum like that. Yes, indeed, the election Of
Mr.. MERRIAM would mark new era in the
history of st. Paul.
There is one consolation, however, the
people of st. Paul are not in the notion just
now of tampering with new-fangled things.
The old era of st. PauPs prosperity is good
for them. They prefer to let well enough
alone. They have no particular
hankering after the new business
methods which Mr.. MERRIAM and his
ticket represent. Silk stockings and kid
slippers may suit those who live in palaces
and idly lOll in the wealth which other peo-
pie have accumulated for them. But the
mass of the people of this city, constituting
the busy hive of workers whose labor and
energies are so rapidly building up its ma
terial interests, prefer to wear their work.
ing suits ON week days and their good old
fashioned Sunday clothes on the Sabbath.
They want none of the new era which Mr..
MERRIAM's election would mark, conse-
quently they will vote for RICE, who is in
all respects representative st. Paul man,
This old-time religion is good enough
for us.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
A SLEEPY uROR.

A good deal of discussion has been in
dulged in recently regarding the merits and
dement's of the jury system. While a
shower of criticism has been poured upon
an institution that has come down to US
along with Magma Charta, the prevalent
opinion is that nothing better has yet been
offered as a substitute for the right of trial
by Jury. At the same time it must be adj
mitted that there are defects in the system
which make it ridiculous at times and cause
mems faith to be shaken in it as the
peoples citadel, within whose walls life.
liberty and property are secure. A ritlie-
ulous, and what would be an amusing fea-
ture of weakness in the system if human
life was not involved in it. was brought to
light in a North Carolina court the other
DAY. In Greenville county HENRY MOORE
was put upon trial for the murder of LIT
TLEToS STEWART. After a prolonged
trial the jury brought in a verdict of guilty
Whereupon the counsel for the prisoner
rmoyed 10 set the verdict aside and asked
for new hearing upon the ground that
during the proceedings OF the trial one of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
A CRUNRING STATE.

The people of Nevada viii have an IN
comfortable feeling when they learn that
they are living on sliding ground. From
recent surveys it has been ascertained that
Virginia City has moved over thirty inches
to the east since the great fire of 1875. The
Maynard block in Golden Hill is known to
be gradually sliding down in the direction
OF Gold Canon and has moved nearly two
feet since Its erection. This movement has
been so gradual that it has not in any man
ner affected the safety of the building. as
the ground to depth of nearly 100 feet to
he bed rock4s known to be continually
sliding. 1t IS well-known fact TO miners
that the ground on which Virginia City is
built IS what Is termed slide and it is
necessary to.sink nearly 100 feet before
feaching the natural bedrock. These slides
arecauSed blythe constant crumhling of the
rocks On the mountain sides. The debxis
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
CAPITALISTS CONFEDERATION

CAPITALISTS CONSTERNATI
The expose in yesterdays GLOBE of the
scheme the ring managers were setting afoot
to Csplt the votes of the industrial classes
and disorganize the Trades assembly so
the organization would be disintegrated and
destroyed as political factor, created con-
sternation in the camp of the capitalists.
They were confounded as to how this pro-
found plan was disclosed so promptly, even
before it was perfected. The GLOBE could
give them some interesting details, but
doesn't desire to do so until they have made
an attempt to work the scheme. They have
an object to accomplish, collateral to break
ing the political power of the assembly
and the industrial organizations generally.
1t is to disorganize and disintegrate, by
creating dissension in the organ
ization, the whole union system so
the fabric would fall of its own
weight. Trades assemblies and unions
are antagonistic to their purpose.
They would have the whole union organi-
cation obliterated from the social and indus
trial system, as well as from the political
field. This is the fundamental idea of the
business mems movement" And the in
dustrial classes understand it full well.
They sought to ignore the Trades assembly
movement, and did so at the primaries and
in the convention. Then when the monop-
oily managers had ascertained that it could
not be ignored or overcome, they set about
to break it up at all hazards, if not by lur-
ing the leaders into the camp of the capt.
talists, then, by disappearing them, create
a doubt in the minds of the masses of the
organization as to the loyalty and integrity
of the leaders. As they found them faith
full to their trust, they contemplated setting
resolutely to work to break them down in
the manner described, but were defeated in
this by the disclosure of their plan. They
find that the industrial classes are deter
mined TO maintain their organization and to
secure representation in the conduct of mu-
nicipal affairs. And in this design they
will not be defeated. They have resolved
to stand together to the last extremity. feel
ing sure that success will crown their efforts
in this campaign and lay the foundation for
future prosperity.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
Looking Over the Figures.

Boston, April 30 The report that rep
resentatives of the Oregon Railway and
Navigation, Union Pacific and Northern
Pacific companies would meet in Boston to-
day to consummate lease of the former to
the two latter jointly turns out to have this
foundation in fact. Messrs. Cakes, Harris
and Stackpole of the Northern Pacific met
with Messrs. Ames and Atkins of the
Union Pacific to consider upon what terms
they would accept a lease of the Oregon
Navigation line. They have been going
over the figures relating to the Oregon
Railway and Navigation all day and will
continue their work tomorrow. Mr.
Cheney of the Northern Pacific was not
present by reason of illness. The Northern
Pacific people. who have recently investi-
gated the condition of the navigation COM
pany, report that the latter can earn per
cent dividend. It has over $1,000, 900
floating debt and $780, 800 scrip falling
dino
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
Local Hapuenings.

j. ii. Rogers Jr., formerly district pass
enger agent of the Northern Pacific railway
with headquarters at Philadelphia, has been
transferred to st. Paul as local tourist agent
for the company. Mr.. Rogers arrived in the
city yesterday, and his appointment takes
effect May /.
General Northwestern Freight A gent Boy
den of the Milwaukee 81 st. Paul road re-
turned yesterday from Sioux City where he
attended a meeting OF the Sioux City pool
association.
Owing to the light traffic, freight trains
So and 36 have been discontinued on the
Minneapolis 81 st. Louis road.
Regular trains will be put on the new
Des MOines & st. Joe road May 10.
c. B. forster, formerly of the Lake
Shore, has been appointed special agent OF
the Chicago, st. Louis q Missouri River
Passenger association under Arbitrator
Hiland
The Manitoba road will take out over 100
immigrants who will arrive from Chicago
this morning.
S. II. Kneass, chief clerk Manitoba rail-
way passenger department, left yesterday
for Devils Lake.
Mr.. McCalvy, Montana cattle king. re-
turned from Europe to-day and called on
his friends at the Northern Pacific office.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30

more doubtful. And when the ticket wa
nominated and the reform mountain, after
such painful and prolonged labor, brought.
forth the most Insignificant mouse, the stu
alton became ridiculous The idea of
Reform convention nominating for mayor a
person whose public record was a betrayal
OF public trust for the advancement of his
Individual gain was SO absurd that the
public had no difficulty in lifting the
mask from the hypocrites and spot
ting the gentlemen who were steal
ing heavens livery to serve the devil in.
According to their professions it would have
been supposed that these would-be reform
ers would have wanted in the office of city
comptroller gentleman who was supposed
to represent the most advanced ideas and
practices of business methods, and yet they
nominated for that office candidate who
has shown that he does not know how to
make an intelligent report. With all the
varied and complicated accounts to be kept
in that positions, Mr. McCARDY in the
comptroller's Office would be about as use
full as bull in china shop.
Since these bosses, who were so clamor-
Gus for business reform have betrayed that
they had no conception of its meaning, the
public very naturally inquiries what
was all this fuss about? 1t is
now apparent that there was
dishonest motive for this affected
virtue, and it does not need much scrutiny
to convince the people of this city that, if
hese false prophets of business reform had
been successful in hoodwinking the public
until the ring bosses had succeeded in get
ting their men into Office, first-class
raid would have been made upon the pub
lie treasury, and some of the latest jobs
ever known in municipal history would
have been perfected. Boss TWEED or Boss
SHEPHERD would have been discounted
so per cent. But the jig is up with these
gentlemen. Hypocrisy has been unmasked
and the humbug exposed. The people have
settled back to the conviction that the old,
tried and faithful servants of the public are
good enough for while longer.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
MIR. villas, REFORM We thods.

CHICdBO I1IIIGS.
Mr.. Villas has prescribed a form of applica-
ton for hungry ofiice-seekers whose appetite
lies in the direction Of a postoffice Inspector
ship, in which they are required to answer
questions concerning birth, education, state
of health, moral character, qualifications for
the place, experience in accounts, etc. These
questions answered, the applicant must sub
NIT to medical examination, and next OBJ
tain certificate of judge of a circuit court
that he is man of good moral character.
This desire to purify the public service is not,
however, very highly appreciated by some of
the patriots, who fear that they may not come
up TO the plans and specifications, and one of
them at Washington was heard to say that in
time Villas would require applicants for office
under his jurisdiction to commit to memory
the catechism according to the Westminster
faith and the Sermon on the Mount.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
HYPOCRISY uNNIAsKEn.

Thistles wear their softest down to hide
their prickles till they are grown. Just so
the ring bosses who dominate the Republic
tan party in this city assumed some marks
of virtue in order to hoodwink the oph,ic
that their vicious schemes might the mora
readily be pushed through. They started
Into the municipal canvass with erv that
the business methods of our city govern
ment needed reforming. They were appar-
entity horihed at the loose manner in which
the financial accounts of the city were kent
They pretended TO be shocked at the go-easv
style OF Democratic administration. Thav
cried out against abuses which only existaa
in diStempeFed minds. They set themselves
up as the only Simon pure reformers and
asked the people of the city to tie to them
They nominated ticket which was claimed
10 be the embodiment of a reform shirt and
the very excellence of correct husinasc
methods. With the ticket and the platform
the whip was cracked and the wheels
started. and the machine moved off ON Jvbot
appeared to them, the drivers, a smooth and
certain road to success.
The veil which covered this hypocr;tica,
reform movement was so thin that tho
enormity of It's wickedneSs was detected (
once by the public eye In the frss place
the managers OF the movement did me hava
such savory record for reform as 10 COM
mend them to the puhAo heart In fact
their connection with anymovemeus created
q suspicion CT 3oboeEy and raids on TIA pub
Lie treasury. Then. when these socalled
vIrsoous retorners were seen spending
money and resgrting 10 che lowest methods
Of machine poEtinans,to set up scouyaD-
ton the integrity of &hsmpvementDs cams
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
OUR WASTED NAVY.

We had a little navy once; where is that navy
now?
Some good Republicans could tell just where
it went and how.
The ship that never met a storm became a
total wreck
When Robertson, that jolly tar, controlled the
quarter deck.
The fleets that good old Gideon left to last us
many day,
His smart successors gathered in and quickly
swept away,
And all the time they called for cash and mill
ions freely went,
With only rotting hulks to show for all the
sums they spent.
Those truly good Republicans who got the
country's gold
Were highly moral men, of course, but sly as
they were bold
They clad with fraud the frigate's sides and
tarred with fraud her boats,
And fixed the fatal mark of fraud on every
craft that floats.
What now have we to show for this, since
robber rule is doneI
The navy that is lacking and the millions that
are gone.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30

ladies of the place have prepared document
proving conclusively that families OF from
two to six can live well on 50 week. and they
assert that no woman is worth marrying who
cannot dress stylishly and save money on $50
year. Copies of this statement have been
sent to every marriageable young man in the
city.
Mrs. Whitney, wife of the secretary, can
afford to dress WELL Her fatheris the million
aire Senator Payne, and one of her brothers,
it is said, as q trihing Christmas gift, gave
her $4,000 ornament of rubies. The dia-
monds she wore at her first Wednesday recep-
ton in Washington were very large and
brilliant. Her earrings of solitaire diamonds
and the three solitaires which were set in q
breastcpin were unusually large and pure.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30

thus accumulated through incalculable
ages is constantly gravitating downward,
and in few hundred thousands of years
what is known as the site of Virginia City
will be nothing but barren bedrock. There
is one gratifying fact connected with this
sliding away of the state of Nevada. While
Nevada's star in the national galaxy will
disappear by and by, the sacred soil of the
silver state will be preserved to the Union.
1t will be observed that it is sliding east
ward and will not be dumped into the Pa
cffic ocean as was feared at first. As it
comes this way on its eastward slide state
after state will manage to gather part of
its surface until Nevada silver dust will be
the common property of her sister states.
And yet if we lived to be 100000 years old
we wouldn't live in Nevada.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
AHARD FOUGHT CASE.
A Suit for Lost Baggage that Has
Pended EMcntY.Three Years.

NEW YORK, April 29.-The court of APP
peals has just decided the peculiar case of
Cyrus H. Mccormick, a resident of Chi
cago, against the Pennsylvania Central rail-
road, which has been in litigation twenty
three years. The suit was begun in 1862
and has been passed upon four times by the
supreme court and three times by the court
OF appeals. On March II, 1862, the plain
tiff with his family and baggage applied to
defendant at Philadelphia for transporta-
ton OH ITS railroad. The baggage was
placed on the train, and while plaintiff was
procuring Ihe tickets and having some dis
pute about the checking Of the baggage
the train started off with the baggage, the
defendant refusing to give plaintiff either
the checks Or the baggage. The baggage
was carried on TO Chicago and destroyed by
fire on the morning Of its arrival. The trunks
contained costly clothing and diamonds
belonging to Mrs. Mccormick, their cost
amounting to thousands Of dollars. The
jury rendered a verdict in favor Of McCor-
mick for the
FULL AMOUNT AID INTEREST,
amounting to SIC, 431 TO- The Pennsyl-
yania railroad appealed the case and pro-
longed litigation was the result, the legal
contest being over fine points Of the law
and technicalities raised by counsel on both
sides. The plaintiff claimed that the de-
PENDANT had wrongfully seized and held his
property IN resistance Of his claims and
therefore was liable for the full value. The
defendant argued that the effort of the
plaintiff to have his baggage stopped was
virtually a waiver Of his right OF action;
that the plaintiff had 10 right to recover for
such property as had been presented by him
to his wife, and that jewelry could not be
designated as baggage The action on ap-
peal was begun OF April is, 1867. The late
decision is final one In this long contested
case and gives the executors Of the deceased
plaintiff the full amount of the claim with
interest.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30

MRS. Lucy R. JEFFRIEs, whose poems OF
rare grace and tenderness have been appear
ing in the New Orleans Times-Democrat for
the last two years, died at her home in Clal-
borne County, Mississippi, a few days ago.
She was widow with two children to provide
for, and had limited means. For several
years she was an invalid, but made a. brave
struggle against an adverse fate. Her writ
ings betrayed real poetic genius and the
sweet philosophy of her life was pictured by
herself in the following couplet from one of
her loveliest poems, entitled ''As Bird,
published in the Times-Democrat last Janu-
airy:
For He who made this world so sweet for me,
Will find and keep me in my liberty"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
Tile MARKETS.

The stock market developed no new fea-
lures yesterday. On opening Union Pacific
sold heavy and the price broke from 1879 to
4S3s. The decline was stopped, however,
after the first hour and from that time until
the close it was duh but strong, closing at
491z, Il net decline of % per cent. After IL
O'Clock the whole market became strong and
dull and so continued till shortly before the
close when there was a slight rally, the
market closing at quotations which show but
slight changes from the closing of the pre-
vious day. Wheat was shade stronger IN
St Paul and Minneapolis. In Chicago there
was no market owing to the holiday on ac-
count Of the opening of the board of trade
building.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30
WORDS ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss Cleveland is said to desire the presi-
dents speedy marriage.
Nile. Nevada's friends Indignantly deny
the charge that their favOrite has organized
claque in Chicago.
While Miss Sweet doesn't exactly run the
government. the fact that she owns the Chi
cagO pension Office begins TO stick cut Ike
sheriff's notice on a barn door.
The bachelors Of Rochester y. Y. no longer
have an excuse for not marrying TheJoung
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-30

PRESIDENT CLEvELANDis represented to be
model churchman,, A member of his con-
gregation says, 1.-THE president is an attentive
listener. He prays in an audible undertone,
sings in clear baritone voice, and is not adj
dicted to the habit of turning in his seat to
look at late comers'