St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-27
FROM THE GARDEN CITY.
Christmas Time Marked by Prosper
ity in an Unusual Degree.
Insignificant Ending of the Fight
Against Mayor Harrison.

Correspondence of the Globe.
CHICAGO, Dec. 22.-It is curious study
to watch the gradual change in the
thought and habits of the people Of
this city, and in nothing is this more
noticeable than in the custom of cele-
brating Christmas and New Years. While
the latter is still observed to large extent
among a certain class OF our people in GER
tain way, it has lost the general interest
which it had fifteen or twenty years ago.
and has gradually been dwarfed by the
growing custom of making Christmas the
vacation and presents-giving day of the
close of the year. This change is attrib-
uted in the main, think, to the influence
of our large German and Scandinavian pop
ulation, whose hearty, earnest happiness IN
the day, and their way of remembering it,
has had very pleasant effect upon the
American share of our people-so much so
that the latter have generally adopted the
customs of their Once-foreign neighbors and
learned lesson in living which smooths
many wrinkle ON work a-day brows and
diffuses an air of content SO generally mis-
sing in purely American cities. will not
attempt to reduce to figures the crop of
Christmas trees which will be harvested by
our $50, 900 souls next week, but it will GER
tainly be larger than ever before.
THE MAYORALITY CONTEST.
The contest Of the reelection of Mayor
Harrison has about reached climax SO far
as the actual results are concerned; and the
friends of Judge Smith, the Republican
candidate, have been wOrsted. The import
ance of this legal fight under the allegations
made by the Republicans, particularly with
the considerations involved, has been Suffi-
cient to excite general interest, and it was
expected that the prosecution would prove
a part of their case. But they have failed
utterly. The condition of affairs preceding
the election must be understood to fully ap-
preciate the situation. Carter 81. Harrison,
the present incumbent, had been renOmin-
ated for third term, when the Republican
press of this city opened up tiood-gate of
abuse upon him, which for vindictiveness
has never been equaled in any of our local
political fights. The Republicans nominated
as an opposing candidate Judge Sidney
Smith, chief justice of the superior court
a man of excellent character and possessing
fine judicial qualifications but lacking in
the peculiar executive qualities which go to
make up successful mayor. The election
was so close that Harrison had less than
400 majority; and, in the light of the frauds
committed by Joe Mackin and his friends
in the election of a year ago, and the con-
viction and sentence to the penitentiary for
five years of Mackin, the Republican
press Immediately began to howl
fraud with vigor that sufficed to secure
recount of the whole vote cast, the result of
the recount, while correcting errors in the
returns, which will give Smith fifty votes
more than he had when the result was first
announced, will not make any change in
the general result. Immediately after the
election a number of political workers
among the local Republicans, aided by
few dsgruntled Democrats, organized what
they called committee of public safety"
whose first and sole business seemed to be
to aid in the attempt to oust Mayor Harri-
son from his official position. AS the in
vestigation proceeded the meetings of this
would-be balance-wheel of our municipal
elections grew fewer and farther between,
and about week ago it gave up the ghost
and the members retired to private life,
with sort of sneaking impression that
they had been engaged in perpetratng a
farce and that the community at large had
no use for them. BY the way, l desire to
impress it upon the minds of the readers of
the GLOBE that it was Democratic judge
before whom Joe Mackin was tried and
convicted; and that, Democrat as he was,
his most unmerciful condemnors were men,
bers of his own party, in whose supposed
interest he attempted to carry out crime
against suffrage, and for which he was
nvicted.
SAD END OF A YOUNG LIFE.
Theater-goers who attended the repre-
sentations at the Chicago opera house dur
ing the third week in September of the
I'VE, Us & Co." combination were par
ticularly struck by the pretty face and figure
of little Sadie COrtelyOn. who was cast for
the character of Rose Perfectus, and her
presentation of the part won the good will
of the audiences of that week. News OF
her death in New York on Monday last, the
result of giving premature birth to a child,
shocked her large number of admirers here,
and a feeling of pity for the young life thus
gone out has taken place among those who
knew her. The daughter of a Brooklyn
merchant, who died two years ago. leaving
his family in comfortable circumstances,
this daughter adopted the stage as pro-
fession, and, though a novice, her beauty of
form and face, combined with a fair talent
in the work she had chosen, won for her a
pOSltlOu. Ole. uOWtNcl, SUI
cumbed to the wiles of the tempter, and
with her life paid the forfeit of her fall
from chastity. Miss Cortelyon, before heI
death. charged her ruin upon resident OF
this city, and her friends threaten to have
such punishment as the law metes out
awarded to her seducer.
AFTERMATH.
The windfall to our city in the shape OF
q haonocf ofG SO0 00N from, tho Na1pharrx
estate for a public library has stimulated
quite little litigation already among the
friends of the heirs to the remainder of the
estate. Quite number of the legatees
some years ago sold futures on their pros
pectivs inheritance, and tied up anything
that might be coming to them for such ad,
vances as they could get. Of course the
people who accommodated them stipulated
for handsome profits for their advances; and
Immediately upon the death of Mrs. New.
berry, these gentlemen took time by the
forelock, put their claims in judgment ant
commenced garnishement proceeding:
against the trustees of the estate. 1t /:
stated that one of the gentlemen who made
loan of S3, 600 to an impecunious heir {
few years ago will get over SO, 600 for hi:
| investment.
William c. Goudy, one of the best-knowr
lawyers of this city, has accepted the gen
| eral solicitorship of the Chicago 6 North
western Railway company. As this is ont
of the best-paid legal positions on any o.
the railroads in the Northwest, the appoint
ment has created considerable gossip. Mr.
Goudy has practice worth S35. ZOO year
and takes the position rendered him at :
salary of S25, 900 for the sake of getting {
rest" as friend puts it, from the multi
plicity of cases of general practice. HI
is one of the most respected members of thu
| Illinois bar, is member of the Democratic
| national committee for this state, and hi
retirement into a strictly railway counsel