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Mr.. ERWIN of Minnesota is mighty great

Mr. ERWIN Of Minnesota is mighty great
man, but Judge KELLY OF the same place is
mightier still. In murder trial at st. Paul
Mr. ERWIN complained In open court that the
newspapers were not dealing fairly with his
side OF tho case. They were not giving enough
OF 1t. That was what bothered him. Some
important testimony was left out. and SO 10
told the Judge.
With the air OF RHADAMASTHUs. his Honor
issued fiery order to the press. The report.
ers became terrified and even the pencils
trembed in their fingers as the vivid flashes OF
judicial indignation came from that lofty
bench. Judge KELLY told them that II they
reported word OF the complaint OF Mr.. ERWIN
he would lock them up for contempt The re-
porIers ran to their oitlces, and whispered TO
their editors the dread secIeti and tie latter
gravely locked M the law and bumbIy bowed
to the decision OF the Court
There must be queer laws In Minnesots. or
queer ways OF looking ut them. II 10 generally
believed that In this broad land OF liberty the
proceedings Of any court Of Justice are subtle
property; that star chamber business can't
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nlp roa x IT Sc yoHNLhNp.
Me-. ouinte-d Says Contrsetcr Froel and
Engineer Carey Have Disreearded Rules.

nfr. ouints-a Says Contrsetor Frcel and
Engineer Carry Have Disregarded Rules.
Supervisor-at-Large John A. Quintard OF
Kings county. in q communication to tho
Board Of Supervisors yesterday. approved Of
the resolution Of the Board providing for the
appointment of three experts toinvestigate and
report on the manner In which Ed Freel h.s
carried out his contract 10 the construction o,
the sewers at the County Farm at St Johnland
IL has been repeatedly charged that the work
has not been properly done,
In hfs message TO the Board, MIR. Quintard
severely criticlyes the action OF Supervising In
gineer Corey In ignoring the stringent rules
adopted by the Board In reference to the work
and in altering. varying, and adding to the
work at his own will without the knowledge oi
the Board. Mr.. Quntard suggests that II NAV
Be prudent for tie Board to inquire whether or
not this offfcfal has also taken all powers into
and accommodation roads and the water sup
ply contracts as well as this one relating to the
construction Of the sewers"
The SUPERVISORS at their meeting yesterday
appointed Mr.. stevenson Towle chief engineer
Of the Sewer Department Of New York and
Park Commissioner as one OF tho exports 10
make the Investigation. He received ID votes
TO 10 cast for Chief Engineer Van Buren OF the
Brooklyn Department. The Supervisor.a at.
Large has appointed Charles L, Emetv the
second Expert, and the third is to be named by
tho Charities Commissioners.
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ans indulge by withstanding the material
temptations to union with this country.
Granting, however, that their objection to
fusion is purely sentimental, he insists that
1t ls stubborn reality which must be reck-
oned with.-a patent, deep-rooted, and, for
the present at least insurmountable fact
He even goes 30 far as to afflrm that 1t would
now be utterly impossible to elect a con-
stable to Office much less member Of the
Ottawa Parliament, who openly advocated"
annexation.
II we are, then, to accept the testimony Of
One who at heart is plainly desirous Of heal
ing the schism Of the Anglo-American race
upon this continent, we might "a well die
miss the project OF political union with
Canada on the ground that 1t as yet lies
wholly outside OF the field of practical poll
tics. According TO Mr.. WIMAN, II we wish
to annex the Dominion, we must proceed
like practical men, who, when their path
abuts on stone wall dig under 1t or go
around 1t. We can gradually, he thinks
dissolve local prejudices and absorb Canada
as Prussia absorbed North Germany, II, like
her, we will adopt the assimilative process of
customs union. On the other side. II has
been argued that by assenting to q COM
mercial union we should be giving gratis
tho very thing which ought to be held
back as the price Of Canadian acquiescence
In political combination.
All the views Of the annexatlonists and
the commercial union advocates OF every
shade of opinion are interesting, but the
fact remains that the United States are not
ready to take Canada In until Canada is
ready to come.
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1t is a Mugwump Enterprise.

This is tho say Of that Mugwump news
paper, the Providence Journal concerning a
recent Mugwump outrage on common de-
cency:
"whether it really advisable the part Of MI
and Mrs permit anything moro to be said
publicly contradiction Of scandaous stories that have
been told of their domestic infelictyis questionable
nasmuch however certain people At to reiterato
them. tho persons immediat interested cannot be
blamed for adopting heroic measures to stamp out the
fasehoodx"
The certain people who saw ut to reiterate
the scandalous stories and to thrust them
into publicity were the proprietors, editors,
and correspondents Of the Ne,o Yorl Times.
the Erenin0 Post the Springfield Republican,
and other Mugwump newspapers.
This fact should be kept in view. 1t has
been Mugwump enterprise from the be-
ginning.
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SOCIETY IN THE BACxWooDs.
How tho People Live, Love. and Make
Merry, According TO the Local Chronicier.
Rain. hail. and snow,
Up the river we 40.
Back we come In fitnety.two
10 take our place m osl true.

From the Strondsoray tTa) Dsmocrdl
Rain. hail. and snow,
Up the river we
Bnrk we come In nnetytwo
To take our place most true.
We are much pleaaed to hear that esteemed
friend. Iissis Winiers Of Brodhcadsyis Ia again
While one OF our boys was returning from vis,, to
his best friend Saturday night he spook,
II. y. proposes having wood.cuttns party this week
wake up, boyA that's = RD. .
Mr. Charlie. Arnold returned home Monday well
fhey say 4. W. has a very pretty lady friend below
TannorsviIe.
ne folks are moving their porkers down like weeds
Peter Rresge threshine up this week with
II 10 fun hear them sny: who writes the Upper
PooUno dunno well who do you think. Dunno
Ich not over ick dankt e5 is Old BuccRneer.
The boys took a game OF leap frog On their way to
a posm entitied "The Beautiful Snow, will shortly
apncar in the columns of the Democrat by t. G. Shaacr
VIII the gentleman from Buehkil peass explain
whether he or the coal foil and broke in three unequal
pieces
our enierprsing citizen c. iankins with his ride
from thefr bridal the brass band the csa.hun
plan band and all other bands handed R.,hrr
make note OF welcome ring, and Hankns 10 cf them
kind TO know how % respond so Glory Haiciuhah and
life OF all fun To g. E. H. and his lovely brido.
We are having good deal Of weather this fall
Paul has cen quite successful hunter this fan. he
has killed bear. \ deer, and rabbit
1t was really amusing Saturday last 10 Mira
Thomas Kistler attempt to Kill chicken Mrs. K has
work very skilfuly yet No doubt She will get used to
ft after awhile
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Voting BY Women.

Women have the privilege Of voting on
school questions in fourteen States and four
Territories. In Kansas they can also vote Mt
municipal elections, and in Wyoming they
are in all respects on an equality with men,
SO far as the suffrage is concerned.
Yet, outside of the Territories, there have
been only two occasions where any great
number OF women have taken interest
enough in elections to go to the polls. They
were the Kansas municipal elections In April
Of last year and the election of school off,
GERS in Boston last Tuesday. In both OF
these cases, too, the women were induced to
exercise the suffrage only because other
than purely political questions were In
volved. The elections In Kansas brought up
tho temperance issue, and that at Boston
inflamed religious prejudices, the contest
being as to Protestant or Catholic control Of
the School Committee.
In Kansas, owing to the moral issue and
the circumstance that the privilege was
novelty, tho women polled about $4,000
votes, to &C, 900 cast by men. But the scan
dals of the contest and its unprecedented
rancor served to make the suffrage more
distasteful than ever to women, and gave
decided setback to the movement for woman
suffrage throughout tho Union. Instead OF
raising the tone OF elections and exercising
purifying influence on politics, the introduc-
ton of women as voters campaign orators,
and canvassers had actually aggravated the
evils Of political methods.
In Boston the canvass and the election
passed without scandals; but 1t was q great
misfortune to import a religious issue into
the contest, and it was adangerous sign that
only such an issue could arouse the women
from their indifference to the suffrage. The
privilege of voting for school officers was
granted to them on the assumption that as
mothers they would have a profound interest
in whatever concerned the education OF chill
paid any heed to such elections, despite or
ganized efforts to awaken their ZEAL
They did not want to vote and could not
be induced to vote. Yet last Tuesday when
their religious partlsanship was aroused,
they went to the polls on cold and rainy
day to the number Of nearly 1900. Other
questions touching education, no matter
how important had not conquered their
aversion to voting. but because a school
book had been thrown out to satisfy not
unreasonable demand on the part OF the
Roman Catholics, it containing what they
declared to be perversion Of their Church
history, the Boston women entered into the
contest with intense feeling.
Boston seems to have been better off when
the women rejected the suffrage than 1t Is
now when they exercise it to stir up need
less and perilous religious strife.
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The Board OF Trade has adopted resolu-
tions calling the attention Of Commissioner
COLEMAN to the shamefully dirty condition"
OF the streets in the downtown wards. Such
action was necessary. and ought to be needed !;
but we do not understand why the Board kept
silent about the streets in the uptown wards
for many of the streets as far up as the Twenty
third and Twenty-fourth wards have also been
shamofully dirty. The same thing can be truly
said about the streets in the centre OF the city
and on both sides OF it. With the amount Of
money that is annually disbursed to keep tho
streets of New York in decent state. there
ought to be no insuperabe difficulty in doing 30.
The sun., 1888-12-14
THE NEGRO DELEGATE At ATLANTA.
Ex.Gov. Bullock OF Georgia Writes About
Race Prejudice.

Prom the Atlanta Constitution.
To THE CONSTITUTION: In your Sunday
delegates in the. recent Forestry Congress- in a
way to create the impression that the fact OF
bis having African blood in his veins was not
that y this fact had been known the delegate
would have been for that reason excluded from
Mar Khan House say that Il he H had known the the
pedigree, of this delegate he would have ex-
With regard to all this. let ME say that it was
part OF my official duty, to receive the dele
Headquarters in the Kimba House during I'M the the
recent Congress. The delegation from Ohio
was among the first to report. distinguished
she on the 4ho dele
at glance to any one competent to judge. and
man from South, Carolina and myself Tie fact
was subsequently generally known among the
delegates who felt any special interest in the
matter: Therefore. the fact that one OF the
not unknown and his presence In the Congress
was not surreptitious.
Our sst3y Of L which we ar are all Justly proud
deadly fevers. Would you have ave us % dim IT that at
gion by African Blood IN the veins of "a an iVi eda-
Gated Ameresn N tL e. born citizen who is an official
Are we prepared. as people, to advertise
ourselves as not equal to the usages Of tho
best circles In Europe and America Would the
President Of the United States refuse to receive
the Minister from the republic Of Hayti be-
cause that Minister was negro: or the Minis
ter from any OF the South American Govern
ments. because those representatives were not
OF pure Anglo-SRxoR blood? Does tho Presi-
dent neglect to invite them to his official recep-
lions or to his official dinners?
If the Hon. Mr.. Weltz OF Ohio chose to have
the Rev. DIR. PoindeXter who was his official
associate. for his room mate. whose affair is it
but his own?
The delegates from Kentucky whom you
think were the victims of u Joke because OF the
negro delegate" are men who stand at the
head OF affairs in that State. One of them,
whose acquaintance had the honor to make,
is a brother OF the distinguished Governor OF
gentleman and statesman because he had the
courage to rise superior to race preJudioe-to
caster"
Is It not of vital importance for us white peo-
pie to know. to admit and act upon the fllnda-
mental fact that u man takes rank as an Ameri-
can citizen In al public affairs according to his
intelligence and his personal character. neither
ADVANCED or retarded by his nativity or by his
bloodp
The great boast OF Atlanta is her superiority
to provincialism. Shall we keep this boast
good and move on with the world into the new
order Of things. or shall we hedge ourselves
within the narrow lines OF prejudice and arro-
gance and be left behindp
RUFUS b. BULLOCK,
President late Southern Forestry Congress.
DEC. 8, 1888.
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They have become much more Interested in
theory than in condition, and we can imag-
inc no other cause OF their transformation
80 reasonable as the added presence In their
counsels OF that gentle spirit which, whether
IL comes in the form of charity or music,
hath charms to soothe a savage breast. She
1t Is that has quietly perched upon the cor
ner post Of the p. r., and 1t is under her
modifying influence that the institution, once
occupied with cultlvating the most effective
art OF slamming knuckles against ribs and
noses. is rapidly assuming the orderly and
discursive habits OF wcll-regulated debat-
ing society
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The Boston Herald finds fault with the re-
mark OF THE BUN that the size Of the Prohibit
ZIONIST vote Is surprise to the Prohibition
lists, and alleges that we should have said lack
OF size, instead OF size.
The criticism is not we'll founded. Nothing
that is measurable lacks slze A pin head has
size, as we'll as the dome Of the Massachusetts,
State House. A flea has size as we'll as lob
ster or mountain. 1t is only to the unedu-
Gated or to the Boston mind that the word size
necessarily conveys the idea Of magnitudinous
Dimensions.
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Col. shepard In washington.
From he Washington rost

At7P. M. he had not yet taken time to eat
his dinner, but seated In his shirt at long
table covered with religious books aud papers writing
away with much yigor
am glad to see YOU" said he As he came forward
with charningiy reassurng and agreeable manner.
have Just been engaged in some important matters
concerning our American Sabbath School Union tho
meeting OF which here to attend. and you must
excuse me for keeping you waiting
You aSk me II have any oDinion about public AZ.
fairs" said he This only at the present moment 1
am especially interested In two matters One 10 bill
already before Congress providing for the making Of tho
Commissioner OF Agriculture member OF the Cabinet
The other proposition to allow all retiring Presidents
pension OF oneha the amount Of their salaries while
Ia onice."
Ono question more. low did Col shepard ike the
newspaper business az FAR AZ he had yone'
Very vel indeed" said he. 1T gives mo an oppor-
tunity Of doing great deal OF good We want 10 ses
We can't difsuads the morning papers from publishins
Sunday edition Does the foE DO sot"
YEA"
"wslL yOa eusht noe 10 do %. ana veuIa have %
naah nasIs inhssass II yoH dia not But nAss 20"
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Our naval expedition to Hayti Is to secure

Our naval expedition to Hayti Is to secure
the rolease Of the American steamer that was
unlawfully captured but We are also to call
upon the Haytian Government to pay an in
demnity for the losses suffered by her unlaw-
full detention. Where In the world will Presi-
dent LEoIT1ME find the means to meet the in
demnityf His treasury Is empty; he cannot
get loan; he cannot raise money to pay his
troops who are fighting the rebels in arms
against him; he has very precarious hold
upon power and may at any time be forced
to fly from Gen. HYPPoLITE. When, from the
top of his palace at Port-au-Prince. he secs
the Galena and Yantic bearing down upon his
capital. there Is danger that he will at the same
time see the end Of his authority. for the insur-
gents are waiting to take advantage OF the op-
portunity which the arrival OF our naval ships
is likely to give them. We presume that Presi-
dent LEGITIhE stands ready to mortgage his
territory to meet the indemnity which Admiral
LUCE will demand. but we do not desire q
mortgage that would be worthless to us.
Surely the President OF Hayti must now realize
how easily he might have avoided the troubles
and perils by which he is environed
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Not In Politics.

There ls only one State out Of the thirty
eight where the Prohibitionist vote exerted
a controlling influence upon the result
That State is Connecticut. The Prohibi-
florists did In fact give Connecticut to the
Democrats.
In New Jersey, 1t Is true, Mr.. CIEvELAND's
plurality Is q few hundred less than the total
vote for Gen. FISK. Assuming that 7,149
out OF the 1904 New Jersey Prohibitionlsts
were Republican Prohibitlonists the State
would have gone Republican had 1t not bcen
for the third party. But the assumption is
unwarranted. Not nearly that proportion
Of the Prohibitlonlst strength In New Jersey
is drawn from the Republican side.
As to the general result, 1t was not affected
by the Prohibitionist canvass. Really, the
Prohibitionists are not in politics. This is
the case in nutshell.
The sun., 1888-12-14
SUNBEA1IS

| In excavating for the foundation walls
for mill Rutland, Vt, the workmen found
three twelve pound balls and four pounder
thought to be recs Of the BurRoyne campaign Of l77
Last year our imports from Japan in
Guiding raw sIfk teas fans handkerchief bamboo and
the like amounted to nearly Si5 oooooo More than
bought by any other nation
| Slavery times were recalled In Whining
ton. N c.. the other dav. when two darkies
loud dispute and almost camo to blows quarreDg in
gard to the social standing and personal accomplish.
ments of tho men that owned thom before the war.
-Thirty-five years ago George n. Wood
run Of Litchled Conn.,. ont his initials the limb
apple tree. They disappeared In time but when tho
tree was cut down and split into frewood long ago
the initials wsre found four inches from tho surface
perfectly distinct.
Sarah E. ROLAND sued the Boston and
Providence Railroad for $50 that being the amount
that she thought might compensate her injuries to
her spine in she famous Bussey bridge accident Tho
Supreme Court OF Massachusetts, has returned verdict
Of S2a OO0 in her favor.
Two Rutland men, out after coons, re-
Gently reed and shot three fat glossy bear
cubs. They were about six months old md weighed
ninety pounds each The next day hunting party went
after the mother and got her after exciting chase
She weighed 2eo pounds
Some OF the good women OF Hartford.
Conn. have organized n dressmsking ana arithmetic
school for young women who want to learn = trade
and also how 70 take Of their Accounts and tbs
like. Commercial arithmetic Will bo taught and a skill.
full instructor will give thirteen lessons OF two hours
each In dressmaking.
George Harold Of st. Helens, Ore, has
had touch Of both kinds OF fortune He won 81 booin
q lottery and Immediately and propeylv st.r,.d ,or
Salon to sec his sweetheart He was so anxiouu to
hurry to her that he could the train to pull
up to the station. but jumped from IL while It was run
ming at full speed and broke his banged him
self up generally.
"A citizen of Lebanon Conn got notion
that an attempt to rob bia bouse vaa IN bs .a. a. 49,
changed what money he had into silver d,a 4, mn ,r.
fully and buried IL at nigb, In q. sv,rn h,h,d IT.
house carefully MARKING IN. snot IN. ~, ., -
this fall ob,i,eYatod the ,narts ,,d n,,~ ~. -,
man cannot find bia monsv and ri,h.. IN, hs
well enough alone and tat.n ,h. .h.n... =, -. 80
robbed
r 100. rI
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Would the new member Of the Cabinet, the
Secretary OF Marine and Fisheries. asked for
yesterday by the National Fishery Association,
attend to every detail Of sea-coast interests. or
would there be also needed before long Sec
retary Of Department Of Oysters? Or why
shouldn't the fishermen join the land lubbers
in an agitation already started and be satisfied
with Secretary OF Labor. for all together?
Perhaps. II these two bodies Of Cabinet re-
agree with most other statesmen that the Cab
met is big enough now.
The sun., 1888-12-14
This Great Towns Share Of the States
Expenses.

The Board of Estimate and Apportionment
at It's session on Wednesday made provi-
sional allotment among the various city de-
partments Of the sums likely to be expended
for the business Of the city during the fiscal
year beginning on Jan. 1, 1889.
One item is not determined or controlled
In any way by the action of the Board. and
that is the sum annually raised by taxation
to pay the city's share Of the expenses of the
State. This item deserves more attention
than It has yet received.
Although the State of New York Is grow
Ing largely In population. and prodigiously
in the variety and extent Of its commercial
interests, and although the city Of New York
continues each year to outrun all OF the
other municipalities within the boundaries
Of the State in both particulars, there has
been no substantial change In the amount
of Its yearly contribution to the expenses Of
the State Government
For 1887 25s,5 ,527 e3
For iSoo 4oe4l "a
For 1889. AIOoR22 II
When it is considered that the city of New
York contains 80 per cent. of the population
OF the State, and more than half of its
material wealth. it will be seen that the tax
imposed upon our citizens for the main
tenance Of the State Government is not
excessive. Moreover, unlike most taxes, it
does not grow but has of late years, since
the reformation effected by Gov. T11DEN Of
the tax system in 1875, grown perceptibly
less-a condition Of things rare indeed, and
welcome because rare, In any American
community or commonwealth.
The expenses Of the State include the
salaries Of officials. the payment of interest
on the debt, the maintenance Of charitable
institutions, at prisons and reformatories,
the fund for common schools for the mill
tary, the Legislature, the State courts.the
outstanding bounties given to soldiers In
war time, the canals, and the fund for the
gradual extinction Of the State debt itself,
now nearly accomplished.
There has been no public declaration Of the
fact, and 1t Is unknown to most persons, that
the expenses Of the State are kept at SO low
figure and show no augmentation, though
the population is steadily on the increase.
The citizens of New York. who expend $780,
100000 year for their city Government, are
not heavily charged in being called upon to
contribute, in addition to this, 100000
yearly to the States expenses.