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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-02-26

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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
PROTECTING THE LABORERS.

The resolution offered in council last
night by Aid. KAHN. relating to the wages
of laborers employed on public improve
ments, is one that deserves the consideration
of the council. 1t is understood that GER
tain contractor was awarded a contract for
opening some streets at a price which he
cannot afford to do it for, unless he can en-
ploy laborers at so cents day. Hence it
is that the mover of the resolution proposes
to protect the workingmen by an ordinance
which shall provide fixed rates to be paid to
laborers on public improvements. While it
is to the interest of the city that these con-
tracts shall be let reasonably low, still it is
not to the interest of the city that the bids
be so low that the work can only be done
at less than living wages. There would be
no economy in the city paying laborer SO
cents day and then have to pay dollar
more to provide for his family out of the
pauper fund. Nor is it to the credit of the
city that the inclemency of the season and
the scarcity of work should be taken advan-
tage of by contractors to put wages down
to starvation prices. The laborer is al
ways worthy of his hire, and it Is the duty
of the city government to see that our la
boring classes are protected in this matter
What is right wrongs MOI man.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
READS WE'LL, IF NOT TRUE.
Nat Goodwin and J Johnny Morissey'
Game To- Fleece Saratoga Retters.

Nat Good Twin and Johnny Morissey,s
Game to- Fleece Saratoga Betters.
From the Chicago Herald.
One summer Nat Goodwin and Johnny
Morrissey, son of the pugilist congress
man, were in Saratoga and both were
strapped" as they had clown in their re-
spective allowances. They were looking
for some way in which to raise the wind
and finally they arranged boat race be-
tween Riley and local oarsnan. They
promised Riley good round sum if he
would fall out of his boat at the further end
of the course and allow his opponent to
win. Well they knew he could bear the local
man in square race. Well, the day came
and it was arranged that Johnny was to
sell pools and Nat bid in all pools ON the
local oarsman. They had counted on about
one thousand spectators. but something was
going on in the town aud the crowd num-
bered O,000. Every one wanted to bet on
Riley and Nat accommodated them ION pa
per-, taking every ''short end"
Before the race Nat had bet his ''wind'
against about So, 900 in the pool box, which
Morrissey kept under his arm. When the
word waa given Riley shot ahead like a
whirlwind and the conspirators began to
think that they were getting what is known
in sporting circles as 1.-The double cross"
Nat was gazing at Riley through field
glass, as we're many of the spectators, when
to his establishment the favorite arose in his
boat and made beautiful dive into 4he
water. He had forgotten that any glasses
were leveled on him and there was cry
from the crowd. Johnny and Nat jumped
from the grand stand with the pool box and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
Kate vaughan,s Dancing,
Illustrated London News


The whole of young London is now re-
pairing to Her Majesty's Theater to see Miss
Kate Vaughan dance in the Italian ballet.
Excelsior" What wonderful thing is
individual attraction! This seIf-same ballet
has been running now for many months.
Two Italian dancers of the first excellence
have exerted themselves with praiseworthy
enthusiasm night after night, and performed
heroic acts of endurance, but the public have
never shown any marked and strong delight
in an excellent entertainment until an Eng
fish artist and dancer floats on from the
wings and tantalizes her admirers with
scarcely five minutes of the poetry of motion.
Miss Kate Vaughans charm is patent: it is
evidently irresistible; and it is good sign.
Taste cannot be in very degraded condition
when with such simplicity and so little eff
fort the art of dancing in its purest form Gag
be so sincerely appreciated.
''Then, in one moment, she put forth the charR
Of woven PAGES and of waving hands,
This is the singular art of this extraordis
nary lady. She does not beat the stage with
her feet; she floats about it. Others per-
plex themselves with effort; she glides I'M
consciously. With herit is not dance but
a dream. And all London goes to see it.
That one short spell Of ''airy, fairy move
ment is worth all the superhuman effort Of
a Limbo and the wondrous gyrations of
Cecchetti-excellent as they both are. What
matter, however, in what form All is dis
played on the stage. How infinitely pref
cradle the days of the poetic Kate Vaughan
to those of the crude caperings and caracoles
of "Wiry SAL" Autres temps, autres
meurs.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
Status OF a strike.

Sp0cldl UO Iue GlOpc.
PITTsBURG, Dec. Sit is claimed by
the river coal operators that the miners of
the fourth pool. with few exceptions, are
working at a reduction. In the third pool
seven miners and four in the second pool
are in active operation. A comparison
with last nights dispatches will show that
the strike is weakening. The superin
tendent of Pine run telegraphs that
the strike will soon be over
there, probably tomorrow. and that
ten strikers joined the workmen to-day,
swelling the number to go. Reports of pri-
walton and suffering among the strikers and
their families are confirmed by late dis
patches. The majority have done little
since June. The present strike was in
augurated in the middle of August. The
companys Atpres have refused credit to the
strikers anu independent merchants have
trusted until now they have no money with
which to purchase supplies. A coal OPP
orator said tonight: The women and
children will not be allowed to starve." 1t
is proposed to inaugurate a relief move
meDt
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09

Strange Story of a Young Lady and
Her Crime.

EheF CTlEASs
Special to the Globe.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Dec. S.-Several days
ago Frank Houghton, married man re-
siding near Cortland, twenty miles south of
this city, disappeared. Miss Nettie Robe,
pretty neighbor, leaving town suddenly
at the same time, people concluded that
the pair had eloped. Circumstances after
wards occurred which strengthened
this belief. 1t seems, while Mrs.
Houghton's Oldest child, girl of 10
years, was at play near the edge of
barn belonging to the farm at their former
residence, she discovered paper on the
stone foundation, and peeping under the
wall discovered twenty-six letters, ap-
parently written to Houghton regarding
the elopement. In one of these the writer
says:
Frank, you are the only one who knows
| am murderess." Several other express
sions of similar character are even more
emphatic. but Mrs. Houghton desires
not to have them made public.
Miss Robes mother died suddenly
short time ago. 1t is alleged that her
mother who was cripple and who had
strenuously objected to her daughters
many suitors, had been threatened many
times by her daughter, who made the old
lady's life burden which she was not I'M
willing to lay down. People now recall
the fact that physician was not called in
to see Mrs. Robe until few hours before
her death. Houghton deserted a wife,
little girls. He mortgaged Mrs. Hough-
TOMS property. sold all the cows owned by
her and appropriated the money to his own
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
MARITAL REFORM.

A New York court has decided that a
wife is responsible for the hotel bills of an
impecunious husband. In delivering
the opinion of the court the chief
justice says I'VE cannot imagine why
a wife with credit cannot take her
husband, who has none, to a hotel, and
in order to procure board and shelter for
her family arrange that she. and not the
impecunious husband, shall pay the bills.
If this were not so, wife. however wealthy,
might find it difficult to find rooms in ho-
tel simply because her husband was unfor-
tunate enough to be impecunious. These
observations are made simply to show that
the rulings made at the trial might lead to
the impracticable results suggested" This
decision is possibly the beginning of mar
ital reform era. When it comes to be un-
derstood that the wealthy wife is liable for
the tailor bills and the bar accounts of dead
beat husband. the heiress and coachman
racket will come to an end.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
John w. DANIEL,

The election of JOHN W. DANIEL to
succeed MAHoNE in the senate of the
United States will not only be notable
epoch in the political history of the COM
monwealth of Virginia, but will be the in
auguration of a new era in Southern poll
ties. 1t is the triumph of new blood over
the old. 1t means that the old conditions
have passed away and that the new South
is asserting supremacy. The election
of DANIEL over BARBOUR signifies that
Virginia has Invested herself of the tradi-
lions of the past. With her back to the
past and her face to the front Virginia is
keeping step with the onward march of
modern progress, and under new leadership
proposes to achieve for herself a new glory
equal in its refulgence to that which
crowned her in the ancient days.
In hOnoring JOHN WARWICK DANIEL
with seat i'll the United States senate
Virginia has honored herself. He comes
from honored lineage, yet does not stand
for fame on his forefathers' feet. His own
merit is his badge of distinction. By his
own energies and with his own gen.
Jus he has carved out for him
self rank of distinction enjoyed by no
other American OF his age. He has hardly
reached the meridian of life. and yet he
will enter the United States senate the peer
OF any man in it. His is a master spirit,
which will assert its superiority in any
place and under every circumstance.
Nature has impressed upon his feat
ures the seal of greatness. His
genius is read in the clear-cut lines
of his classical face. His intellectual power
shines in the briliiancy of his sparkling eyes.
His manner is that of elegance devoid of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
A MEXICAN SKIRMISH.
The Rupture in Mexico Results in a
Little Bloodshed.
No Peace Yet in Servia--The English
Selections.
Mexican Intoxicating.

VILLA DANA, NuevO Leon, Mexico.
Dec. S.-Last night the state forces were
reinforced by the arrival Of Capt. Sarchez
with fifty men from Sabinas, Col. Carlos,
Zuagua with 100 men from Lampases and
several small parties from the ranches. A
night attack was expected and the entire
command was kept in readiness, with sad
died horses, until daylight, when scouts
brought in the news that the revolutionists
were camped in force at Palo Blanco
rancho, eighteen miles south. A courier
from Monterey reports that at midnight
fifty revoutionists marched to the public
plaza in that city and fired several volleys
in the air. The mayor called on Gen. Reyez,
commander of the federal troops. for as
sistance, which was refused. The police
succeeded in arresting eight of the Offend
ers. After quiet was restored, Gen. Reyez
detailed troops to watch the city. 1t is be-
lieved here that the Independent club was
requested by the federal authorities in the
city of Mexico to bring about the demonstra
ton in Monterey, to be used as an excuse
for prOclaiming martial law at the proper
time.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
Gen. Grant a Painter.
Special to the Globe.

CAMDEN, N. j., Dec. SIT has been
generally imagined that there was only one
picture in existence which was painted by
Gen. Grant, and that one was in possession
of the Borie family. Another production
has been brought to light. belonging to w.
E. Rothesay, who has been offered and who
has refused to take SIS. 900 for it. The pic
ture is an ordinary-looking water
color landscape. Close inspection shows
in the left hand corner the
name u. 81. Grant" The initials stand
for Ulysses Hiram Grant, his baptismal
name. Mr.. Rothesay got the picture from
his mother, resident of New York state,
who in her childhood was native of Ga
lena. She received it from the dead gen.
eral herself. He painted it in 1S43 while he
was a cadet at West Point and presented it
to her as memento of having escorted
Mrs. Rothesay on Tip East when he went
to West Point. George w. Childs has been
shown the picture. and having been told its
history, asserted that there was no doubt
that Gen. Grant painted it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
GLADsTONE-PA UNION.

It would be rather singular to find the
union after the election is over. Queerer
things may have happened, but not more
unexpected. And yet it would be logical.
If GLADSTONE finds himself with such a
small majority as not to be able to rely with
certainty on carrying any measure over the
combined opposition of the Tories and Par
nellites, the most natural thing for him to
do, if he is any sort of politician, would be
to form any sort Of a respectable alliance
that would make him master of the situa-
ton. The only hope that is left to outwit
the Tories is to draw from them
their Irish allies. 1t may be said in oppo-
sition to a movement of this kind that both
PARNELL and GLADSTONE would COM
promise the principles of their respective
true. Yet politics is only the science of
compromise. 1t is only by concessions that
great political movements are organized and
made successful. So far as Mr.. PARNELL
is concerned he has only one object in view.
The liberation of Ireland from its
present oppression is the one aim of
the Parnellites. They can afford to make
concessions of everything else to secure
this point. Mr.. GLADSTONE is an old
man, making the final struggle for
power and reputation. He will vio-
late no sacred principle by conceding to
the demands of the Parnellites, if thereby
he secures supremacy in England. A trade
of this kind in English politics would be a
perfectly natural thing in American pol
itics, and as our English friends have re-
Gently developed remarkable disposition
to adopt American political methods, it
would not be such queer thing after all to
see a union between the PARNELL and
GLADSTONE forces. 1t must also be ap-
parent to Mr.. GLADSTONE that in the
event the English parliament refuses to
grant home rule to Ireland there is going to
be violence, and good deal of it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09

art, and dignity that's lost in ease. His
speech possesses the magical art of elO-
quence in rare degree. In all the ele
ments of perfect oratory it is doubtful
whether young DANIEL has an equal in
this country. His talk is that IS weet ex
tract of speech which holds the ear in bliss
full slavery" Nature has made him
leader of men.
1t is fortunate for the South that man
of JOHN DANIELS mould has been brought
to the front at this crisis. More than that,
it Is fortunate for the nation that a young
leader of such broad and comprehensive
craftsmanship and generous patriotism
has been pushed forward as the
representative of section at
time when that section is being
made the victim of calumny. Mr.. DANIEL
belongs to the present generation, and his
views are all in accord with the progressive
spirit Of American life. His presence in
the senate will be in bright contrast with
that of the man whom he succeeds. In his
public career he will be the reverse of all
that MALONE was. MALONE represented
all that was vicious in political life. His
notoriety rested on his capacity for soul
duggery. DANIEL is the soul and embodi
ment of honor. He would scorn to rise by
base methods. and would die rather than
do dishonorable act. He belongs to that
rare type Of American statesmen who regard
personal honor as of more value than all
the wealth of the world. His public record
will never be stained by the corrupt streams
which flow through our congress
sional halls. In consideration of all
these facts the election of Mr..
DANIEL to the senate is matter for national
congratulation. He will enter the senate
as the exponent of the new South, and the
eyes of the nation will rest upon him in eX
pectant watchfulness, His utterances will
be oracles. And his conduct and bearing
will be accepted as symbolical of the new
order of things which has grown up in the
South since the extinction of slavery. His
mistakes, if he makes any, will be fatal to
his section. His success, and we feel that
it is assured, will restore the South to the
confidence Of the country, will rehabilitate
it with its former greatness and power. and
will encircle his own name with halo
brighter and more to be coveted than ever
gathered around that of any Southern
statesman within the last quarter of a cent
urV.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
NO Peace Vet.

BELGRADE, Dec. SKIING Milan has
telegraphed Queen Natalie that forty-eight
hours have expired in which Prince Alex
ander was to have replied to the terms OF
peace proposed by Servia. but that no reply
has been received. A Constantinople dis
patch says Nadjaid Pasha has been in
trusted with special mission TO Prince
Alexander, the object of which is to assist
in arranging peace between Servia and
Bulgaria. The Vienna Neue Freie Presse
processes to know that Germany has be-
come reconciled with Austria and Russia,
and that the three powers have induced
Prince Alexander to agree to the re-estab-
lishment of peace. Col. Milonovics. the
Servian envoy, has departed from Pierot
with Prince Alexander's answer to King
Milan. in which he rejects the Servian
peace proposals. Prince Alexander repeats
his former demands and gives Servia until
Thursday to accept them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
AMUSEMENT DIRECTORY.
ST. PAUL

ST. PAUL.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Wabasha St.-S p. m,
Haverly's Minstrels.
OLYMPIC THEATER, Seventh st. near jackson
-"Adamless Eden"
SAoKETT s. WIGGINs' DINE MUSEUM, "a and
96Seventh St-Museum and Stage Perform
ance.
FOURTH STREET FAMILY MUSEUM, Exposit on
Block near Observation-Disclosures and stage
Performance.
MINNEAPOLIS.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Nicollet and Sixth
Spm, "Alone in London"
THEATRE CoMIoUE, 219, 221 and 223 First Az.
South-Minnie Lewis Female Mastodons.
SACKETT g. W1GGINs' DINE MUSEUM, ga and
ZIG Hennepin Av.-Museum and Stage Per-
Torrance.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
AN UNRELIABLE PROPHET.

JAY GOULD says that VANDERB1LT's
death will not affect the stock market. 1t
is to be hoped that Mr.. GOULD is right
about it, but it would be much more salts
factory to the country if the announcement
had come from some one else. Mr.. GOULD
carries heavy load of stocks himself, and it
has been observed that whenever he gets in
an over-confdent mood regarding the stock
market he is generally preparing to unload
Mr.. GoULD's predictions of the stability of
the stock market are not always reliable
We believe that he is exceptionally correct
this time, but GoULD's saying so will have
more of tendency to unsettle the market
than VANDERBILT's death. This is one of
the emergencies when Mr.. GOULD ought to
have remained discreetly silent.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
WISCONSIN STATE GRANGE.
Progress of the Patrons of the
Badger State.

Special TO the Globe
MADISON, Dec e.-The fourteenth an
nual meeting of the Wisconsin State
Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry oc-
CURED at the capitol to-day, Worthy Mas
ter S. G. Carr of Milton presiding. There
is very light attendance. The report of
the secretary shows membership
in the state of 5000. The worthy
master delivered his annual address
this evening. In concluding he said the Or
der in Wisconsin is in good healthy con-
dition. While some oranges have made
rapid strides in their membership others
have not done so well. If all would adopt
the plan that La Prairie Grange No. 79 has
done, it would not take long to double the
membership. Their plan is this: The
grange appointed two captains and they
chose alternately all the members of the
grange. each choosing half to aid them in
their efforts. The principal
FEATURES OF THEIR WORK
were oratiOns, essays, declarations, songs,
ETC., also reinstating dropped members and
Initiating new ones, each exercise counting
certain number of marks, the side that
obtained the most marks to be declared the
winning side. At the end of the contest
the losing side gets up supper
for the whole grange. The
result was that in four
months time 112 members were added to
their grange. which more than doubled
their membership, they having only rs
when they started. This is the result OF
organization and each member working to-
gether to accomplish an object. He hoped
every grange in the state would adopt
this plan or one equally as good
during this coming year, and said
he believed the result would be satisfactory
to all. He said this order knows no North
no South, no East nor West. They find
the same cordial greeting from Patron in
Maine as in Mississippi, California. Canada
or Wisconsin. He advised them all to coop
crate and work with all fraternal societies
for the good of all mankind.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
TELEGRAPHHC SPARKS.

Fire at Fort Branch, Gibson county, Ind,
destroyed several halls and business houses.
Loss, Sl50,000; partly insured.
Fire in the cellar of the Presbyterian Edu-
cational home last night in York, Pa, caused
a loss of about $40,0 900.
Henry Fl. Carpenter of Illinois has been
appointed private secretary to Commissioner
Sparks, and Henry a. Newman of Wisconsin
has been appointed special timber agent.
ington.
The report of the earnings of the Western
Union shows adecrease.
Prof. W. H Yates Of Barkersville, Pa, has
been fatally hurt by religious fanatics.
twenty-five or thirty persons have been
stricken with trichinosis in New York.
Gen. Lew Wallace is home from Europe.
The jury in the Wilson-Moen case at Boston
disagreed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
Holding the Breath.

Herald OF Health.
Deep breathing and holding the breath are
an item of importance, Persons of weak
vitality find an uninterrupted succession of
deep and rapid respiration so distressing
that they are discouraged from persevering
in the exercise. Let such persons take into
the lungs as much air as they can at a
breath and hold it as long as they can, they
will find grateful sense of relief in the
whole abdominal region. Practice will in
crease the ability to hold the breath and the
capacity of the lungs. After time the
art may ba learned of packing the lungs.
This is done by taking and holding the long
breath and then forcing more air down the
trachea by swallows of air. The operation
may be described by that of fsh's mouth
in water. To those who have never learned
it it will be surprising to what an extent the
lungs may be packed. Caution is at first
needful, but later practice will warrant
large use of the treatment. The whole
thoracic and abdominal cavities will receive
immediate benefit, and continuance, with
temperance in eating, and good air and
right exe.cise, will bring welcome improve
ment.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-09
Banquet TO Garrett.

Spec1dl TO tne GLOBE.
NEW YORK, Dec. 8.-Elaborate prepare
tons are making for dinner to be given to
Robert Garrett and the executive committee
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad on Thurs
day next by Erastus Wiman and his asso-
ciates, on Staten Island. Four wires are
being carried into the Pavilion hotel at
New Brighton, and circuits will be worked
east, west, north and south. Four stem
ographers are to relieve each other and
to dictate to four typewriters, who
will make duplicate verbatim reports of the
proceedings and by district messengers and
a special boat send them up to the city to
the local press. and for distribution through
out the country by telegraph. Forty guests
are expected from Baltimore and twenty
from Philadelphia, and the contingent from
New York and Staten Island will probably
swell the total to two hundred or more.