St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-31
SAINT PAUL.
Additional City News on the Eighth Page.
MEN AND THINGS.

Darius T. Reese gave short lecture
In the Merchants yesterday afternoon
on the evils of cigarette smoking. He
said that they were vile things, made
from the collected stubs of old cigars.
but his remarks lost muchof their force,
as he was industriously smoking one OF
them at the time.
The reappointment of Dairy Com
missioner Ives is authoritatively an
nounced, with the installation of FL. c.
Howard in his position as deputy COM
missioner.
Senator Durant says that, judgi
by the state of the weather last night,
the season for hot drinks is fast APP
preaching.
Capt. w. Fl. Smallwood, secretary of
the judiciary committee of the house,
tells a good bribery story, it being
"reminiscences of the campaign III Kan
SaS when John j. ingalls, was elected
United States senator. The captain
was his prime worker, and discovered
that State Senator Pomeroy, Mr..
Ingalls, opponent, was using consider
able money. After a conference with
Mr. ingalls,, Capt. Smallwood put up
a Job" on Pomeroy. He sent one of the
members of the legislature to
Pomeroy with the story that he
had been offered $1,000 to vote
for Ingalls,. but that he had mortgage
for 81, 600 on his farm, and he had not the
funds to liquidate it: if PomerOy would
give him the money he would vote for
him. Senator Pomeroy took the bait
and swallowed it at gulp.
In the nominating convention the
member rose, and walking up to the
speakers desk, holding the $1,000 in
greenbacks high in the air, said: MIR.
Speaker, hold in my hands $1,000,
eroy as the price of my vote. do not
want it. My vote cannot be bought. L
hand this money to you, Mr.. Speaker,
and ask you TO devote it to some charit-
able object. As for me, shall cast my
vote for John j. Ingalls," The scene
in the chamber was one of wild confu-
sion, and the result was the nOmlna-
ton and election Of ingalls,, who has
held the seat ever since.
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,snecdote about an ancestor of his who
was civil engineer in Boston in the
latter part of the tWentieS. He was sent
out by syndicate of New York capital
lists to locate town site and plan a city
at the head of Lake Michigan. These
far-sighted men saw that in the course
of tile big city must rise there, so
they plated Michigan City, While Mr..
Graves was at work with his surveying
corps his principals in New York got
wind of a scheme to plat city at the
mouth of the Chicago river, and sent to
him to 20 over there and report to them
on the desirability of the site.
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He went to the spot and wrote to them
that to build a city at the mouth Of the
Chicago river was an undertaking which
surpassed the powers of civil engineer
ing. He said thht it was nothing but a
vile swamp, and that TO raise it to a
level at which drainage would be pos
Sible would be so expensive. that it
would make the ground cost more than
in the heart of New York city. Any
one who tried to build a city there was
attempting an impossibility. The colo
mel remarked after telling the story, eff
he could ri from his grave and walk
toniShed man he would be-"
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The newspaper business in Duluth
seems to be in constant state of tran
Sition. Though the shores at the head
of Lake Superior are strewn with the
wrecks of journals of every SORT, there
are still to be found those daring enough
to Launch their barks in that tempeStu-
Gus sea. The latest development is the
purchase Of the Duluth Daily News and
Evening Herald by Elliot Lord, manag-
ing editor of the Boston Advertiser. He
has agreed to buy them both, and will
pay about $4,000 for the pair. The
News has been struggling bravely
against almost insurmountable difficult
ties for some time, while the Evening
Herald, which used to be the best paper
in Duluth, mas been getting simmer
and Simmer for over year. If Mr..
Lord can make them pay he will be
doing more than any other man ever did
with daily paper in Duluth.