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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-17

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF RAMSEY
~ SIS. In Probate Court special term, May 25,
1885,
In the matter Of the estate of Swan Anderson,
deceased,
On reading and filing the petition of Peter A.
Anderborg of said county. representing, among
other things, that Swan Anderson, late OF said
county, on the 10th day of November. A. D. 1856
at St. Paul. in said county, died intestate, and
being an 1nhabitant of this county at the time of
his death. leaving goods, chattels and estate
within this county and that the said petition eP Is
the oldest brother of said deceased, and praying
that administration of said estate be to him or
some other suitable person granted;
1t is ordered, that said petition be heard before
the judge of this court, on Monday, the 21st day
of June. A. u. 1886, at 10 O'Clock a. M, at the
Probate Office in st. Paul, in said county.
Ordered further that notice thereof be given to
the heirs of said deceased, and to all persons in
terested by publishing copy of this order for
three successive weeks prior to said day of hear
ing in the st. Paul DAILY GLOBE, a newspaper
printed and published at st. Paul, in said
comfy.
By the Court,
LIS. WIN. B. MCGRORTY,
Judge of Probate.
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assailant Of it, by making up purse OF
$4,000 to reimburse the heir to that
amount who they selected to make the
contest. The will of the wealthy widow
of A. T. Stewart, who left twenty mil
lions, is about to be attacked by Nicholas
Fornay of County Down, Ireland. The
true remedy for this is the interference OF
the State as the rightful heir. The prop
erty of men belongs first to themselves
and next to the State under whose laws
and by the aid of whose community it
was accumulated. The mere fact of
blood or marriage connection does not
establish any moral Or commercial Interest
in the property, on the part OF those whose
labor produced none OF it. The accumulatCr
and owner of property having expressed,
by will, his wish as to where 1t should 60
and that wish having been defeated, the
property should 60 10 tie party who, mex
to the owner, contributed inOSt-lts lega
protection, it's territory, lis population
it's commercial facilities. railroads anG
canals-to Its accumulation and pFeserYa-
ton, and that Is the State. This would
end the meIcerary and often purely
speculative strife over dead mems es-
tates with which so many of the courts OF
the Union are flied the moment man OF
wealth dies.
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The Improving Timea,

The improving traffic has forced Jay Gould
to increase the equipment of the Missouri Pa
cifc system, and he has ordered between
1000 and 5000 cars. The bulk of the new
cars are for freight traffic, but the order in.
cludes $50 passenger coaches and 100 loco
motives. The aggregate of the contracts is
over So, 000, 600. During the year about / ,OOC
miles of new road will have been added to the
system.
The Roanoke (ya.) 'Leader" says the Roam.
oke Machine Works, which now employ over
900 hands, have in the last few days received
another large order from the Norfolk & West
ern railroad for one thousand cars and twelve
new locomotives. This order alone means
work for many months and employment for
many more hands than are now engaged.
j. NJ. P. Saunders of Wythe county, Va,
has just sold for $50, 900, twenty acres of his
land and the mining right beneath $50 acres
more Geo. T. Miller of Philadelphia is the
purchaser and an iron furnace is to be built
there.
syndicate Of iron manufacturer in ths
central part of pennsylvania are making az
engagements for the construction of D large
iron furnace at Pulaski, Va. on the line Of
81 NorfoiE aus Western Railroad.
ling OF glass blowers Of Pittsburg,
Pm, was Il last yassesk, to consider the pro.
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Paving for Bridal Presents.

In the last two weeks I have paid $3.50
for bridal presents, and I do not expect to
60 through the season under $500 for this
item of expense. 1 would avoid 1t if
could, but the fact is when l was married,
three years ago. 1t was my misfortune to
receive about So, 500 worth of presents from
my friends and relatives, and | am grad
ually paying back their value to those who
gave me presents and to whom | must give
in return. [ thought such liberal dona-
ton fortunate at the time, but have
learned differently by experience. When
ever see great display Of presents at a
wedding now, l say to myself: There is
debt of so many hundreds or thousands
of dollars that this young couple has sad
died upon them at the beginning of their
career" 1t is custom that has grown
to abuse. and the only merit l see in it is
that they pay back on the instalment
plan. have several years to pay my debt,
but still must pay for many articles for
which have not had the least use.-Fr0nl
an interUie1U avith Society Lady.
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American Girls in Eng land.
CHARMINGLY RECElvEDON ACCOUNT OF
THEIR PRETTY, FLIRTISH WAYS.

1.-The reason our American girls are so
charmingly received by the English arls-
tocracy''-Writes Mrs. James Brown Pot
ter in private and, as yet, unpublished
letter to Mis-. Mortimer Livingstone, a
neighbor of mine-''Jhe reason they are
received so kindly is because our girls are
interesting and attractive. Englishmen
like our girls on account Of their pretty,
chatty, fiirtish ways. The English girl is
stiff and angular. She is not self poised.
The presence of royalty quite overcGmes
her, and when she meets the Prince OF
Wales she is so abashed that she can not
cfsertain him. The cold English girl ac-
finally stands speeches. with awe, while
the American girl looks up with unccn.
scious naivete and chats away with him
as if he were an ordinary man. Our girls
are accustomed to gentlemen 3 society
from early womanhood This society
makes them bright, tull of repartee, apt
! at apropos answers and viyaciOns in saliies
Of wit. 1t is this ald this alone that opens
the icy gases of arstocfacY tG the warm,
sunny American girl.'
Il is only late thing that QUE northern
girls have been taking themselves into the
icy circles of the English aristocracy. The
first assaults were made by the warmer
bl0cded girls of the South. Before the war,
Miss King, Of Georgia, wen with her
beauty the Marchioness Of Angies6a, and
old John MagrudeT's niece tlrted with
Lord Abinger till he made her his lady
and divided a corenet. The first New
York girl to capture lord was Miss Nc.
Wicker, who married Lord Grantley.-
Then Leonard jerome settled $4,000 a
year on Lord Randolph Churchill, who iG-
cluded the beautiful daughter in the bar
gam. Miss Yznaga, now Lady Mande-
vile, actually became the future Duchess
of Manchester by her beauty and silver
tongue. She was poor girl, living down
on Eighth street, II a modest brick house,
but her vivacity carried her Tito the Bel
mont polo set. Lord Vaudeville. a mere
STRIPPING, came over here, met Miss Yzna-
ga, fell head over heels in love, and mar
ried her. Lady Vaudeville is now lead
er in London. They say she is helping
other bright American girls to marry
English coronets. Among other Ameri-
can girls who have married into the Eng.
lsh nobility are Miss Libby, who became
the Hon. Mrs. Darlington; Miss Stevens,
who married son of Lord Paget, an old
sweetheart of the queens; and Miss Liv-
ingstone, who married a cousin of. the
Duke of Portland.
ana now III SeemS Guab E0gllSn cOrOneGS
are going begging among cur American
girls, for Miss Grant has just refused Lord
Cairnes because he wanted her to pay for
her own engagement ring.
Of course We have American women
like Mrs. Mackey and Mrs. Paran Stevens
who buy positions with money, presents
and expensive entertainments, but then
they could not succeed If they didn't sur
round themselves with bevies of beautiful
American girls.-Ek Perkins, III Inter-
Ocean.
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CLEANED FROM THE MAIL.

The East Rockingham and Page Mutual
Fire Insurance Co., a company organized upon
the plan of the East Augusta of this county,
at its last meeting in Luray amended the
bylaws by making insurance on any property
end as soon as the property becomes unoccu-
pied. 1t also prohibited the further insurance
of mills. Two solicitors were appointed to
re-assess all The property now insured by the
company.
Mrs. Pickett, widow of the hero of the
charge of the Virginians at Gettysburg, has
been appointed to clerkship in the Patent
Office at Washington.
Baltimore has arranged to pay off her bonds
issued for her subscription to the Valley rail-
road for 81 900, 900. The bonds became due
at the option of the city October 1st and
Baltimore commenced paying them on the
31st.
The European missions of the Missionary
Union were started with the baptism of Mr..
Oncken and six others in Hamburg, Germany,
in April, 1884, by DR.. Barnas Sears. The last
of these seven converts, Mr.. j. FL. Kruger,
recently died in Indiana, Ito which State he
had emigrated), at the age of seventy three.
An historic white oak stump stands on the
road mile from Appomattox G. H. After
surrendering at Appomattox, Gen. Lee and his
staff camped on the spot and slept under the
oak. After they had gone next morning, the
citizen on whose land the oak stood, had the
tree cut down to express his disapprobation of
Gen. Lees surrender. The dissenter had new
err worn the gray, SO says the Farmville Jour
nal"
The Indiana Methodist Conference has con-
demned the use of tobacco as uncleanly and
unhealthy, and the delegates promised to
preach against it once each year.
The Presbyterian young folks of Canandai-
qua, n Y. held corn festival the other even
ing. The decorations of the room were of
corn stalks, corn was cooked in every style
known to Ontario county, there was singing
of ''Cows in the cornn and ''When the Corn
is Waving, Annie Dear" a young man played
the cornzet, and blessing the Corn Field"
from sHiawatha" was read.
The 1926, 600 suit of Malcolm Brown, an en-
gip8.l If the Virginia Midland Railroad, who
was injured for life in collision near Alexan-
dria in 1885,, has been compromised by the
company paying Mr.. Brown S. 900.
Wytheyille adopted looal option, but the
drinking would seem to ha Bee :rensferred
from the bars to the club room At .he Pres
byterian church the pastor has demo lue si>tths
club rooms in sermon and the local papers
call on the authorities to suppress '"hese 5n-
o,,bators of vice and immortality
The grand jury of Montgomery county hay-
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A Mothers Desperate Iced.


Mrs. George Donaldson for many years
has lived in a small house near the Vir-
GINA end of the Chain bridge. Her hus-
band has been hardworking man all his
life. During the last few months he has
been out Of work, and the prospects of
getting work were not very bright. M IS.
Donaldson was esteemed as modest and
Woodworking womsn. She was rather SEN
sitive about making Known her wants.
Mr.. Donaldson went to Tennallytown
early Saturday morning to do some work
at ca1peUteriug 1t seems tina. after he
left. his wife began LGr customary house
work for the day, bhe CLEANED TIC house
I'D and PLACED eVeryt hing away with great
care and nea.Aess. These matters attended
to. she calie her thee children, aged five,
eight aud eleven years, to her. She dressed
them in their best clothes; and told them
that she was going to take them over the
Chain bridge to a friends house. At nine
O'Clock she locked the house, ard with the
children started down the road to the
bridge. Before reaching the bridge she
took the children through dense thicket
of woods, and reached point on the river
shore little below the bridge. Here the
mother stood fer moment apparently in
deep thought. AS quick as a flash, she
threw the two younger children into the
raging waters that, at this point, fall over
myriads of rocks. Her Oldest child stood
terror-strlckeu at her mothers act.
Mama, mama, don't kill me !" was the
child 3 cry; and, fearing death, she fled
away and escaped. 1t was now the
.nother's turn. She swung herself to and
Iro once or twice, and with ARMS uplifted
and a piercing scream, she jumped into
The river TO rise no more. The woman's
scream was heard by a number Of men some
distance away VINO , ran ths 10 al On her In
ina aodies OF the children. The woman's
Sndv mad net been recovered, &C last &C.
l.o,lssrs. - A lerQndriG Gazette.
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.prlety of emigrat1ng to Claremont, on James
I River in Virginia, and engaging IN their
+ calline there A committee of three was ap-
pointed to investigate the locality. About
sixty families are interested in the plan
The lexington ''Gazette" says that prepar-
] ations are being made at the Cash Tin Mine
:asn the head waters of Irish Greek, Rockbridge
county, to erect at once smelling furnace to
!. sost $4,000 The ore is to be smelted at the
ssmines.
Ore averaging 81, 900 of silver to the ton
has been discovered near Hollins Institute in
: Roanoke county, Va. Experts declare it
4 equal to any in Colorado.
| I.ow-Moor furnace in Allegheny county,
( Va, has commenced erecting new stack
I The Allegheny ''SentineP' says there are
/ 1000 people in that vicinity, whose living is
directly or indirectly connected with it, who
will hail with pleasure this evidence of
growth at the furnace.
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Thanksgiving Day.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND SETS APART
NOVEMBER 25 BY PROCLAMATION.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND SETS APART
NOVEMBER 25 BY PROCLAMATION.
The following is President Cleveland 8
proclamation designating Thursday, No.
vember %, as day of Thanksgiving and
prayer:
A PTccZonantion-By the President Of the
United States:
1t has long been the custom of the peo-
pie Of the United States, on u day in each
year especially set apart for that purpose
by the Chief Executive. to acknowledge
the goodness and mercy of God, and to
invoke His continued care and protection.
In observance of such custom, /, Grover
Cleveland. President Of the United States,
do hereby designate and set apart Thurs
day, the 18th day Of November instant, TO
be observed and kept as a day of thanks
giving and prayer.
On that Gay let all orr people forego
their accustomed employments, aud assem-
bic III their usual places Of worship, to
give thanks to the Ruler for the blessings
OF a free government, for renewal of
business prosperity throughout our land,
for the return which has rewarded the
labor of those who till the soil, and for
our progress as a people in all that makes
nation great.
And while we contemplate the infinite
power of God i'll earthquake, flood and
storm, let the grateful hearts of those who
have been shielded from harm through
HIS mercy be turned in sympathy and
kindness toward those who have suffered
through this visitation.
Let US also, in the midst of our thanks
giving, remember the poor and needy with
cheerful gifts and aims. SO that our ser
vice may, by deeds of charity, be- made &C
ceptable in the sight Of the Lord.
In witness whereof 1 have heIeunto set
my hand and caused the seal Of the Uni
ted States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington ON this
first day OF November, in the year of cur
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eiahty-six, and Of the independence of
the United States of America the one
hundred and eleventh.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
BY the President. L. f. BAYARD,
Secretary of State.
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Tuesday S Elections.
IN VIRGINIA BUMGARDNER,
CABELL, CROXTON. HENRY, .
AND GRIFFIN ARE
DEFEA TED.
W. r. MORRISON AND SPRINGER OF IL
LIMOS, AND HURD OF OHIO, DE
FEATED, AND SPEAKER CAR
Isles ELECTION IN DOUBT.

The Election, on Tuesday, resulted
with diminution of the Democratic ma
jority in the House of Representatives,
from 43 to 15-possibly more.
The only point where the Democrats
experienced any serious reverses was
Virginia, where Thos. S. Croxton in the
Fredericksburg District; e. G. Cabell in
the Dauville District; H. Fl. Henry IN the
Abingdon District; Samuel Griffin in the
Lynchburg District, and James Bumgard-
ner in the 10th District, were all defeated
by decided majoritles. In none Of the DIS
trlcts named was the Republican vote in
creased, and the reverses come from the
Democrats not coming out.
Outside of Virginia the most exciting
event was the election of the Democratic
Mayor of New York, Abram Hewitt,
by 10000 majority oyer Roosevelt (Rep.)
and Henry George (Lab0r.) The vote
stood Hewitt, 10000; George, IS ,O00 and
Roosevelt, 10000.
In the congressional elections, the
Democratic Tariff Reformers have
suffered severely. Morrison of II
linois, Hurd OF Ohio, and W. D..
Hill of Ohio, (well known to our
people) are all defeated, and it is believed
that Speaker Carlisle of Kentucky, has
had narrow escape If he has escaped at
all.
The Democrats met with their heaviest
losses in New Y DIRK, Virginia, kentucky,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan,
where they lost on an average four Rep
resentatives to State They made gains
in Massachusetts,, New Hampshire, Con-
necticut, Minnesota, California and South
Carolina.
There will be two labor representatives
in the Fiftieth Congress-,o from Wis
consin and one from Virginia. Both will
act with the Democrats. We give below
tables condensed with much care, which
will give our readers in the briefest form
the fullest information of the result all
over the country On Tuesday.
In Tennessee Robt. l.. Taylor, the Dem
ocratic candidate. was elected Governor.
The 50th Congress.
The returns from the election, last Tues
day, shows that the House of Representa-
tlves of the 5Oth Congress will stand
politically, as follows:
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Interview With The new Knight of Ls Dor
Congressman from Virginia.
[From the Eyuchburg Advance. !

lGAOi1 tltC GCuUuIS AuFduC6.l
An 'AdYance" representative called on
Mr.. S. l Hopkins at his store this morn
ing, and askeds
"What newsNhave you as to your major
ity over Mai ID Griffin ?"
NOT . word, except what the demo-
cratic papers have published.
not ?"
According to what the papers say, I
think | am, without doubt"
'Mr. Hopkins, you were elected as a
democrat, believer
" Yes, SIR, with emphasis) am life
+ long democrat; never voted any other
ticket. and don't expect ever to do so. [
claim to be as true democrat as my op-
ponent ever was or ever can be, if not a
better one."
Then, as representative of this dis
trict, you will affiliate with the democratic
party in its reorganization ?''
"UnquestlOnably l will; | could not do
otherwise, for l accepted the nomination
as democrat, as was understood all the
time, and as have repeatedly proclaimed
l accepted the nomination on the platform
of the Knights of Labor, and not as a
party man. l will say, further, that no
power can sway me from Christian princl-
pies, and what L conceive to be right, and
for the best interests of the people. This
principle has guided me IN the past, and
will in the FUTURE
Are you a Virginian ?''
"No, l was born in Prince George
county, Maryland, In 1913, For four
years l was a soldier in the first Maryland
line, OF the Confederate side, and at the
close of hostilities surrendered here in
Lynchburg, where l married, and have
81 nee resided. [ was shot five times, and
now carry the scars
The private character of Mr.. Hopkins
was never assailed, and during the late
canvass everybody conceded that he is a
conscientious Christian gentleman, who
acted, in accepting the nomination upon
his convictions of right.
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Counter Petition.

THE LADIES OF RICHMOND OPPOSE CLU-
vERIUs' PARDON.
The various letters which have been sen
Governor Lee in favor of the pardon of
Thomas j. Cluverins have excited the ire
of several ladies of Richmond, who have adj
dressed a counter petition to his Excel
lency, as follows:
To His EacelIency the Governor of Vir.
qinid:
AS numerous letters have been written
in behalf Of that man, T. j. CluverluS,
who stands forth as guilty Of the most
heinouS crime on record, we, the ladies of
Richmond, enGrea5-nay, lnsist-that no
mercy be shown him; that such a man
shall not. be let loose on society.
He has mad the full benefit OF the law.
able counsellors, yet the CHAIN of circum-
stantlai evidence, the strongest and most
conclusive IN the world. has drawn closer
and closer around him, until ali possibility
of escape from his crimes is out OF the
question, and the jury renders the verdict,
Guilty"
A man claiming to be descendant of
Virginians intjnates that the jury was
swaYed by the tide Of public opinion; real
ly he has a high degree of confidence in
the honor of the OLD Dominion, to cast
such reflection on her sons,
The Communication of the sentence
should not be taken into consideration for
a moment. Why, hanging is too good for
such man "A man dead to all honor, re-
lgion, society, and everything that makes
life worth living.
He should have no sympathy; but if
there are tears to be shed, save them for a
nobler cause. Think OF that poor. betray-
ed girl. of her family. one of whom even
now Is in an insane asylum-aU the work
OF t1tat one man. We repeat, no clemency
should be shown him. and we only hope
that the Governor Of Virginia has too
high an appreciation of woman to count
tenance the perpetrator Of sucn crimes,
and too high sense of justice to let it be
overcome by sympathy.
LADIES OF RICHMOND"
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Published every Friday. Price 81 per year sl,oo
ar sig months, and so cents for months-invarla-
alY in advance.
Transient advertisements 10 cents per line each
psertioa; monthly cents per line per month.
contracts for longer terms made at the counter.
Local circulation in Augusta, Rockbridge Rock
ngham, Allegheny, Highland and Bath counties.
Gives general and local news: stories and mis-
lellany; reliable commercial repo.--.
II. G. TINsLEY,
A. s. MORTON.
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There is nothing more gratifying in the

There is nothing more gratifying in the
new life of the Southern States than their
progress in the matter of public edu-
cation, though to all of them the
free school system of this day is not
twenty years old. They are fast CATCH
ing up to the States which have had
the system for two or three generations,
and even passing some of them. 1t is a
rather surprising fact to record that in
Vermont, where the system ia its most
perfect form is half century old. the
average daily attendance at the public
schools is but IS per cent, while In South
Carolina it is IS, Florida 70. and Missouri
rs per cent.
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4 SYMPTOM WORTH REMEM-
BERTNG

Tuesdays election showed conclusively
that the Republicans of Virginia do bet
ter without Malone at their head, and the
Democrats of Virginia do worse without
John S. Barbour in the lead. The absence
of each great leader had precisely oppo-
site effect on his party. This is fact
that will cause some grave reflection in
both parties,