St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-19
SAINT PAUL.
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.


preventing depredations in the Yellow
stone park, Gen. Ruger has ordered
fifteen additional soldiers to be sent to
the post already established inside the
park. At present one company, about
sixty men in all constitutes the avail
able force to guard the park, and the
crowds of tourists pouring in from all
sections made the increase absolutely
necessary. While no overt acts OF de-
struction have been reported recently,
it was deemed the wisest course to have
sufficient force present in case OF an
emergency, and especially as there was
probability of some of the soldiers
being ordered off to the mountains to
look after bands of hunters who have
no regard for law or consequences when
in pursuit of game. When an oppor-
tunity presents itself they will steal
into the park, kill such animals as they
find and get out of bounds as quickly
as possible.
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considerable attention is now being
paip to the coming state fair. PreSl-
dent Merriam, A. E. Young and my
SELF" remarked A. S. Tallmadge yester-
day, "are going out to the grounds this
evening. We intend making some inn
provement in the general arrangements
and have things fixed up very nicely.
We want all citizens to take a pro-
nounced interest in fair. The jObberS'
union and the chamber of commerce
will do their share in making the fair
success"
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A meeting of the Republican state
central committee will be held to-day at
the Ryan. Yesterday afternoon Joel P.
Heatwole, Of Northfeld. secretary of
the committee, made his appearance at
the hotel. He registered and immedi-
ately betook himself to the capitol, pre-
viouSly remarking: 81 have not the
slightest conception what will be done.
Beyond calling the committee together,
l have taken no further concern in the
meeting. L am not disturbing myself
about politics just now, and for the past
thirty days have not taken much inter-
est in them. do not expect to serve
on the new committee, nor shall l be a
delegate to the county or state conven-
tiOn."
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81 wish to call the attention of the
council" said City Clerk Prendergast
Tuesday night before adjournment, ''to
the fact that there are three dog-catchers
in this city at the present time catching
all the stray CANNES in sight. Eighty of
the latter are now in barn near the
stock yards, and unless some action is
taken by the council in the matter the
Humane society will be after the city,
Last year the dogs were sold to GER
tain firm at % cents each, but this year
the company refuses to buy the dogs
unless they are first killed. The coun-
cil'S only way to get out Of the trouble
was to make arrangements to have them
killed. The matter was placed in the
hands of the committee on police and
yesterday the committee drove out, in
spected the aggregation of dogs, and
finally made arrangements to have them
killed off. They will be disposed of to-
day.
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Col. A. F. Rockwell has in his pos
session the original drafts of the inaug
III al VI Viz ldOC L lCSidCIG Wal
field, which were given him shortly
after the ceremony at the capitol in
March. 1881. There are seven drafts of
the address, which only occupied about
thirty minutes in delivery, most of them
in the handwriting of the martyred
president. and other portions are in the
chirography of j. Stanley Brown, Mr..
Garfield's private secretary, and now
married to Miss Mollie Garfield. sGen.
Garfield was very fastidious about such
Matters" said Col. Rockwell as he
conned the valuable manuscript, land
this is evidenced by the interlineations
and other marks of care used in prepar-
ing his address to the American people
on that occasion. One of the Garfield
boys must have found the papers loose
on his fathers desk, for there are sew
eral scribbling attempts at names which
look very much like Irving's handi-
work." Another valuable possession of
that period is small piece of note
paper bearing the inscription, 'Stran-
gulatus pro Republica," and signed in
tremulouS hand, J. A. Garfield. This
was written the 18th of July, 1851"
exception of the letter to his mother.
was the only attempt at penmanship by
President Garfield during the eventful
eighty days of sickness and pain.'
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s'We intend to begin work on the
East Seventh street line Just as soon as
the ordinance repeating the Scent fare
becomes law" said Col. Barr, of the
city railway company last evening.
t'The work will be pushed as rapidly as
possible. OF course we can't finish it
this year, but expect to have it running
some time during the summer of 1885,"
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j. NJ. Bohrer-People complain of
hard times, but l can not see the evi-
dence that times are hard. So far as l
know there has never been nearly as
much business done in st. Paul as is be-
ing transacted this year. All our whole
sale houses have had their hands full in
selling goods. Commission men are not
complaining about the times, but be-
cause they cannot get produce enough
to sell. 1t is possible that retail dry
goods dealers may have occasion to COM
plain on account of sales during the
spring and summer not being quite as
active as they had reason to expect.
This has left some of them with sur
plus of summer goods. Take the whole
business of the town and there has been
an immense increase in it over that of
last year in every department.
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nj. E. Reed-It will not do for busi-
ness man to indulge too much in horse