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St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30
THE ST. PAUL POSToFFTCr.

The United States Mail is the title of
journal published at Cincinnati in the inter
est of the government postal service. The
last number devotes good deal of space TO
the st. Paul postoffice. In addition TO re-
producing an illustrated article which re-
Gently appeared in the GLOBE the Mail
publishes a sketch and portrait of DIR.
DAVID DAY, giving in connection
Herewith a history of his man
agement of the postofiice in this
city. One of the distinctive fea-
lures of the ST. Paul postoffice. mentioned
by the Mail, is its economical management,
the percentage'of expenses on gross earn
iDgs being far below the average of other
letter-carrier offices. The reports of the
postmaster general show that the average
for all other letter-carrier offices is 40, while
that of the ST. Paul Office since 1880 has
not been above 2S. The Mail vouehes for
DR.. DAY being a staunch civil ser
vice reforlner. He is also given credit for
being the first when the fast mail was put
on from New York TO put into operation
the delivery system by carriers Immediately
upon the arrival of the train. The Mail
also takes occasion TO measure st. Paul's
growth by the increase of its postofice busi-
ness, which is regarded as the fairest of all
tests. 1t says: 1.-The growth and pros
perity of st. Paul are shown in the receipts
of the postofiice, and sometimes We think
they are far more reliable than the figures
compiled by boards of trade, for post
office returns don't lie, but are
correct to the tenth part of a cent.
If city is prosperous and its business ex-
panding. the postoftice will feel it first in its
sales of stamps and other supplies. tits
surprising to state that the gross receipts of
the st. Paul postofiee in 1875, ten years
ago. were S5s, 922. .6S, while for 1884 they
were SlS6, ,571.22. Here is an expansion
three times over in nine years, which is
simply marvellous.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30

Shortly after midnight Officer Woolsey
arrested a drunken man on Rue de One.
The prisoner was in company with two COM
paniOns, who endeavored to secure the re-
lease of their friend by force, but the officer
secured assistance and walked his man off,
turning him over to Special Officer
Mcguire who locked him up in
the First precinct station. Woolsey
then returned to arrest the others
for interference When he arrived, how
ever. he found them engaged in an alterca-
ton with G. A. and William Ackerman. in
which the two latter were knocked down
with a loaded cane. Woolsey ran quickly
ND and arrested two men. One of them,
however, made a dash for liberty, but he
had gone but a few rods when the officer
opened up fusilade, shooting the
man in the right leg. The shot
had the desired effect. The man
quietly gave himself into custody at the
lookup. The wounded man stated that his
name was Hare, and that his father is
LIE Sueur merchant, while his companion is
William Powers, st. Paul plumber. They
stoutly protested their innocence, declaring
that 1t was a case of mistaken identity,
although the Ackerman brothers were posi-
tive that the wounded man struck then
with loaded cane because they came I'd
the assistance of the officer in effecting tina
hrst arrest. The bullet is still in Hare'G
leg, but will be extracted to-day.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30
The Grain Movement.

Robert Kerr, general freight and paSsen-
ger agent of the Western division of the
Canadian Pacific road, arrived in st. Paul
yesterday on his return to Winnipeg from
the East. He reports the prospects for a
heavy traffic over his road this fall very fiat
tering- The most important event is the
building of the Manitoba Southwestern,
which is being pushed forward to compile
ton with all rapidity to enable farmers to
send their wheat TO market this season. As
many men as can conveniently work upon
the road are employed. and the 100 miles
will be built and be under operation before
Nov. 1. Mr.. Kerr is rather indignant at
the bitter attacks of morning contempO-
rary, which has been repeatedly stating that
ii is no use for men to go to the Rocky
mountains for employment, for the Canadian
Pacific does not treat them fairly when they
are out there. This Mr.. Kerr says is wrong.
The Canadian Pacific does not wish any
more men on the Rocky Mountain division,
as all the men wanted are employed there
now, and as the line will be finished inside
of few weeks, it would not be worth
while for men to 90 there to work. The
Canadian Pacific is building the Manitoba
81 Southwestern, and all the men up to a
short time ago were employed who applied
for work.
The crops this season were mequaled in
the history of the Canadian Northwest,
and there will be between seven
and eight millions of bushels of wheat
to moved this fall. This amount will
be transported to Ontario and Quebec,
and will be shipped by the way of the lakes
to Port Arthur. At this point ample ac-
cOmmodations are provided for the recep-
tiOn of the grain. There is one elevator
with a capacity of 1850, 600 bushels, an
other of $50, 600 and two fiat warehouses
with a storage capacity of 500, 600 bushels.
The grain will be carried on the lakes by
the Canadian Pacific line of steamers,
three of them with capacity of 1000 tons
each. The wheat will begin to move in
about three weeks. The rate on the grain
from Winnipeg to Montreal will be IS cents
per 100 pounds, by lake, and as soon as the
all-rail route is operated and wheat goes
that way, the rate will be somewhat higher.
A good portion Of the wheat will be milled
at Winnipeg. There are three mills there.
the Ogilyie, Mic MILAN and Hudson Bay
mills all having a capacity of 1.5OO barrels
per day. The rate on flour to Montreal will
be 81 cents per barrel. Other business on
the line is improving and prospects for the
Canadian Pacific are generally bright.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30
The Agreement of the East-Bound Rail
roads Broken After an Existence
Of Two Weeks.
Arrangements the Canadian Pacific is
Making for the Removal of the
Wheat Crop East.
Increase in the Tonnage of the
Weaker Lines Running East
From Chicago.
The Wisconsin Central After Mill
waukee Business--St. Paul ~
Duluth Time.
Again Dem0ralized.
Special TO the Globe.

Sptcldl 10
CHICAGO, Aug. 29.-After brief exist
enee of two weeks the agreement between
the managers OF the eaSt-bound railroads to
maintain rates to the seaboard has openly
been violated. Rates became slightly demOr
allied early in the week, but the managers
maintained as much secrecy as possible, and
it was not until this afternoon that open
war was declared. As usual. the trouble
originates with the Peoria business, which
one manager described as the plague
spot of tine honest railroad man to show the
effect on Chicago business. 1t is stated that
one local shipper whose business used to
amount TO 100 cars per day now ships but
10, the Peoria lines having taken that
amount of business from Chicago. There
had been feeling of uneaSineSs in freight
rates all the week. and yesterday several of
the trunk lines began openly cutting rates.
Some claimed to have made no contracts
below the tariff, but united in saying that
they would meet all cuts to-day. The
lowest rates quoted to-day were 171S cents
on provisions and 11& cents on grain,
though there were rumOrs that a contract
had been made at still lower figures. The
Chicago roads claim that the trouble started
with Peoria and that st. Louis quickly fol-
lowed suit, thus absolutely forcing the
local lines 10 abandon the New York agree
ment or lose tine business. This new freight
war has broken out with much bitter feel
ing among several of the roads interested
and the result is almost certain to be long
struggle, resulting at last in another iron
bound combination like the joint executive
committee.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30
THE CONGO FRAUD,

Mr.. n. P. TIsDEL, agent to the states Of
the Congo association, has submitted to the
state department report of his visit to the
Congo country and the result of his explo-
rations. Sir FRANCIS DE WILTON, gov
ernor general of the free states of the Congo,
provided Mr.. TIsDEL with a special cara
van of fifty-siX Loango men, as he found it
impracticable to engage native caravan
from the upper country, as they experienced
great difficulty at times in passing through
the territory belonging to unfriendly tribes.
Mr. TIsDEL denies the statements which
have appeared from time to time I'm the
European press that all kinds of
tropical fruits. vegetables, cattle and
sheep are raised in abundance. He
says that everything which is required
for the employees of the association comes
from Europe, except occasionally a few
goats or fowls can be purchased, and some
lines mandioca corn, bananas and ground
nuts. The cost of transportation from
Europe to Banana is $500 per ton. From
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30

IT was aToronto paper which accused DAN
IEL WEBSTER of ''being the author of the
American dictionary" But there is one fact
in the history of the great expounder OF the
constitution which entities him to distinction,
and of which perhaps but little is known.
DANIEL WEBSTER was the author of
legislation looking to the protection
OF speckled trout The only state
oiace that Mr.. WEBSTER ever held was
ten days service in the Massachusetts leg
islature. During that time ne introduced a
bill and secured its enactment providing that
no man in the state should catch trout in any
manner other than by the ordinary hook and
line.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30
SmnII-noxntmonrreaI.

MONTREAL, Aug. 29.-There were forty
six new cases of smallpox reported to-day,
only fifteen Of which were authenti-
Gated. There were twenty deaths within
the city limits reported, but these do not
include the interments in the Protestant
cemeteries, the returns for which are only
made up once week. This
would not make difference probably of
more than one and possibly no difference at
all, as since outbreak of the disease here
very few deaths from smallpox have been
reported from interments in the Protestant
cemetery. The Indians on the Congha-
waga reserve have all been yaecinated
within the past few weeks.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30
Trouble win the jockeys.

NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-LlOyd Hayes, the
jockey, and James Steward, the trainer.
brought suit against E. J. Baldwin, the
California millionaire. TO receive S4.OO for
breach of contract. and obtained from Judge
Barrett an attachment on which the
sheriff of Saratoga county seized Volante
and Primero. two crack race horses
belonging to Baldwin. To-day the latter's
attorneys filed a counter bond and secured
an order from Judge Van Brant vacating
the attachment The order was sent to
Saratoga and the horses delivered by the
sheriff TO Mr.. Baldwin's trainer, who took
them to Chicago, where they were entered
in the Washington park meeting.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30
The Tennis Tournament.

The lawn tennis tournament between the
st. Paul and Delta clubs on the grounds in
front OF the Lafayette yesterday afternoon
was most interesting affair. being espe-
claIly so to those versed in the game and
lovers of an exhilarating and exciting sport.
The only drawback of the whole contest
was the court being in very poor condi-
ton. The three sets of singles were won
by members of the'St. Paul club and the
two sets of doubles -'y Delta men. The
full score is given below:
First Single-L. p. Ordway of ST. PauIs
vs.. W. N. Armstrong of Deltas won by
Mr.. Ordway. Score GA, 6:9
Second Single-F. Skipwith Of ST. Pauls
vs.. IL. S. Griggs of Deltas, won by Mr..
Skipwith. Score 6:3, 6:S.
Third Single = James G. Wall Of St.
PaGls VS.. II. j. Horn, Jr., won by MT.
Wall. Score Sc, 81.
First Double-W. B. Smith. F. Skipwith.
st. Paul, VS.. II. S. Griggs, w. N. Arm
strong, Deltas; won by Deltas. Score, 6:1;
GA
Second Double-James c. Wall, F.
Driscoll, Jr., ST. Paul, VS.. II. J. Horn. Jr.,
George Nettleton, Deltas; won by Deltas.
Score, 6:3; 6:3.
Scorer Whitney Wall, st. Paul.
-, Inc prizes were prize racquet to
the winner in the first set of singles and
SILK badges to winner in the other events.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30

upon those whose very weakness appeals
to him for protection. But when the
woman-beater adds to the monstronsity of
his crime by selecting his own wife as the
victim of his brutality we can not conceive
OF punishment severe enough for him.
Our laws are deplorably lax in this respect.
Just think of the life of horror the woman
must lead who has the miserable fate to be
united in marriage to a man-no, not a
man, but brute-who is dead to all the in
stlncts OF love or mercy and of whom she is
In constant terror. Her home is worse than
he'll. She breads his presence and
trembles when she hears the fall of his foot
step on the threshold; she turns pale at the
sound of his voice, and crouches with ap-
prehension whenever his hand is lifted.
To her frightened senses, the man upon
whom her womanly heart yearns to lavish
the wealth of its devotion is continually a
grim spectral image.
"Fierce as ten furies: miserable as he'll
1t is a disgrace TO our civilization that
our laws do not more effectually protect
these suffering women, and that they do
not award severer punishment to the GRIM
nal wretch who will convert his home into
a hell. The idea of sixty days in the work
house or the mere nominal fine of SO or
$50 being the penalty for wife-beating is
absurd. Following the scriptural idea of
awarding such measure as We mete TO 9TH
ers, the GLOBE has advocated the revival
of the whipping post as the most appro-
pirate mode of punishment. We concede
all that has been said about the barbarity
of the whipping post as method of punish
ment and confess that it is a revolving
penal institution, and yet, with all its de-
grading associations, it still is not severe
enough for the wife-beater. Wife-beating
is a crime of peculiar conditions and our
law should treat it as such.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30
THE MARKETS.

The stock market yesterdaywas alternately
moderately active and extremely dull ana
firm. The fluctuations were limited TO very
small margin till the last hour, when the
Grangers led decided break. At first prices
were weak and declined slightly. A moderate
reaction followed, and the market became
steady and continued so till in the afternoon.
The announcement of diminished DIVIDEND
ON the preferred stock of the Northern Pacluc
caused break in the Changers. and decllhes
followed. The market closed generally at uhe
lowest prices of the day with net decline OF
37l in Northwestern, IL in st. Paul. q III
Omaha common, 45s in the preferred ana
per cent in the Oregon Navigation and North-
ern Pacific preferred.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30
wIFE-BEATING.

The wayward bard of Avon, who stands
rs the acknowledged high priest and inter
prefer of the mysteries, the sorrows and
joys of human nature in its loftiest and its
lowliest moods, never penned a truer line
than when he denominated the man who
would lay his hand on woman, save in the
way of kindness, a monster. The man who
would strike woman under any sort of
provocation must be a brutal wretch. The
natural instinct of manhood is to protect the
weaker sex. There is something revolving
in the idea of perverting the strength of man
from its natural purposes TO infiict abuse
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30
Freight nIoYemenfs.

Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, Aug. 29.-There has been
quite turn over in the percentages during
the past week, the outside roads pulling up.
The Vanderbilts, of the total tonnage, car
ried 40.4 per cent, loss as compared with
the previous week of 90 per cent; the
Pennsylvania lines took out 21.2 per cent,
a loss Of 1.2 per cent; the Grand
Trunk comes to the front with III;
a gain of Al per cent; the Chicago
IL Atlantic hauled 1871 per cent, an in
crease of SIS, and the Baltimore IL Ohio.
with SO per cent. scored an advance OF 2.3
per cent. The weekly report of I. c.
Moore, the joint agent, as given below, in
eludeS the tonnage of grain, corn and pro-
visions shipped eastward from Chicago for
the week: Flour, 2,592; grain, 20, $40; pro-
visions, 7,S4O; total, 81, ,3O2.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30

RocHEPoRT was in the habit of accusing
PAIN of being a secret traitor TO the French
Radical cause. 1t was also intimated when
PAIN left for the Soudan that he would
never reappear as long as there was any
prospect of his wife obtaining pension or
indemnity for his loss. It is hardly credit
able, as alleged. that PAIN was entrusted by
the French government with large sum of
money to induce Ell MAHDI TO continue in
his revolt. Nor is it hardly possible that
RoCHEFORT and his radical followers can use
PAINS death as q pretext for involving
France in war with England.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30
The BurIington,s Move.
Special to the Globe.

special 10 the OlOOe.
DUBUQUE, Ia, Aug. 29.-Mr. Clark.
president of the Illinois Central railroad
company, and Mr.. ToZelain of the Chicago,
Burlington ~ Northern, accompanied by
the engineers OF the respective companies,
arrived in the city to-day and went over 10
East Dubuque and arranged for the
coming of the Chicago, Burlington 6
Northern to East Dubuque and through it
to the Wisconsin and through tine tunnel
on 10 the bridge, so as TO reach Dubuque
Everything was arranged satisfactory To
both roads without any difficulty whatever
the new road. The Illinois Cen
lington IL Northern to use its right of
way from Portage curve, this side of Ga
lena, to and through East Dubuque, allows
it to use the Central engine house, yard and
warehouses at East Dubuque, and
gives TO the new road all
the facilities it desires. Mr..
Clark says he has reserved 4 right of way
for any other road that may come from
the north, so that it can get TO the bridge
and into Dubuque, and that he is ready to
make favorable terms with any new road
that wishes to come here. The party
went to Galena and in the evening returned
to Dubuque. All are well pleased with the
arrangements made. a preliminary agree
ment was reduced TO writing so that there
might be no delay in the work to be done
by the new road. Mr.. Clark called on
the mayor of East Dubuque to explain to
him the intentions of the Illinois Central
as to the highway north from East Du-
buque, but not finding the mayor at home,
left a note for him, stating that
the Illinois Central did not intend
TO interfere with any highway in East Du-
buque; that the company meant to confine
itself 10 its own property and that it would
not interfere with any highway without
applying for and obtaining permission
from the proper authorities. There
is therefore no cause for alarm by any one
as 10 what the Illinois Central intends to
do atEast Dubuque, and everything is quiet
along the line Three hundred men were
sent to Savanna, Ill, to-day from this city
to work on the Chicago, Burlington &
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30

SISTER NARY CoNsTANTIA, the mother
superior Of st. Paul's Orphanage in Brook
lyn, who died last week at the age of 20, was
the Oldest sister of charity in the United States
AT the time Of her death she had been for
forty-eight years a sister, and for forty years
had been in charge of st. PauIs orphanage,
the first institution of tie kind in Brooklyn.
Her monument is the half century of good
deeds she performed. Her life, with its mod
est usefulness, was worth more than all the
books Of crude theories written by the pro-
gressive women of the world
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30
A Mississippi Fire.

YAZoo CITY, Miss, Aug. 90 This
morning the large store Of Holmes & Co.
was discovered to be on fire. The flames
soon spread to the adjoining building owned
and occupied by Craig 81 Sons. The
Holmes building and the stock in it
were destroyed. causing a loss Of S23, 900 on
which there is an insurance of 81, 500.
Craig & Sons building and goods were
damaged to the extent of about $50, 600, in
sured for S1O,OO0 The cause Of the fire is
moi t-nouvn
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30
The Wisconsin Central.

MILWAUKEE, Aug. 29.-R. c. Hanna,
the secretary of the North Chicago Rolling
mills, says the report that the Wisconsin
Central has just purchased of his company
II, 1000 tons of steel rails at $50 ton, or at
any price whatever, is unfounded. He
says no rails have been ordered by the Wis
consin Central since month ago and that
he would not make public the price paid
fhaD
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30

BAD LUCK to the foul which prevented JOIN
L. SULLIVAN from getting licked yesterday.
JOHN l. is ii wife-beater and deserved good
threshing. While the GLOBE is opposed to
prize fighting on principle, it would have
consented TO . suspension of Judgment in
this one case if MCCAFFREY had, as he
was in fair way of doing. If his foul hadn't
come in, licked Mr.. SULLIVAN so de-
Gently that he would never have been seen
outside OF Boston again.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30

sonable compensation for the accommoda-
ton and believe that satisfactory agree
ment can be reached. If not, they are in
the same position that they were regarding
Chicago, only that the pressure is not so
great and they declare that, failing in max
ing the arrangement, they will construct
their own line into Milwaukee.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30
Movements of Steamships.
Special to the Globe.

SUPERIOR, Wis, Aug. 29.-The pro-
peller New Orleans of Buffalo arrived to-
day with 1,S00 tons of coal.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 29.-Arrived:
Steamer Celte from New York for Liver
pool.
LONDON, Aug. 29.-Passed the SciIly
Islands:Steamer st. Laurent from New
York for Havre. Passed the Lizard:
Steamer Schiedam from New York for
Amsterdam. Arrived off the Scilly Islands:
Steamer France from New York for Lon
don.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30

IT cost a New York heiress s15O,OOO TO
marry an English lord. If the cost stopped
there our rich American girls might afford TO
pay for titles Of nobility. But when it in
wolves, as it does in most cases, a life of mar
ried misery, The hard-cash consideration is a
small part of the transaction.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30
AMuch-Criticised vi.

T
The postal c'erks on the Southern Mime
sofa railway say that our new postmaster,
Mr.. Hall, handles the mails surprisingly well
for new man. better in fact than many of
the old postmasters in the county. One thing
is certain, Mr.. Hall gives the details of the
Office his entire attention and is succeeding
admirably in h.l efforts to please the public.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30

The Sullivan-McCaffrey fight at Cincinnati
was given to Sullivan, as he made the most
''points." McCaffrey stood up for six rounds
and desired to fight to finish. He was car
ried off the grounds on the shoulders of his
friends. In the evening a challenge was
issued to Sullivan to fight McCaffrey with
bare knuckles to finish, 500 forfeit money
be IN deposited.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30
Fumigating the Canadian Mails.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-The postoffice
department has requested the secretary of
the treasury to cause all Canadian mails
coming into the United States to be thor
oughly fumigated to obviate the danger Of
introducing smallpox in the country
through the mails.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30

A oABLEaRAM yesterday stated that It is
daily more apparent that the agitation
started in Paris about the alleged murder Of
OLIVIER PAIN by the British is 20 organize an
anti-Engiish sentiment among the French peo-
ple. 1t is known that HENRI RocHEFoRT,
the principal agitator in the movement, hates
PAIN and the artificial horror now expressed
by RocHEFoRr is the purest demagogism.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-30

NEWS of the rumored peace which is in
process of pitching between England and
Russia will orly prepare the public for the
biggest sort OF a row, which is likely TO fol-
low. Peace overtures among European ma
tiOns have come to be looked upon as a fight
for position.