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Year: 1878

As we have already said, we regret that the
Minnesota Hospital for Insane has not
escaped the avalanche of accusations against
similar institutions all over the country, in
deed everywhere, both at home and abroad.
We regret it. in behalf of that unfortunate
class, SO numerous in Minnesota, from causes
so inexplicable, for whom this public charity
has been ordained. Weregretit, because of the
vast sums of money expended by the State
to build, at st. Peter, an almost royal palace,
as home for these people, of the annual
expenditure of money to provide for all
their wants, necessities, and for their COM
fort. We regret it, in behalf of the honor
and good name of the State. and for the
character and reputation of those who have
had it in charge. Let there be a thorough
investigation, and all suspicion and taint re-
moved, or theatruth known.


The truth is, these institutions begin to
be regarded with great distrust, and not
without good reason. For several years
there have been almost daily outrages pub
lished, shocking the best sensibilities of So
ciety. These outrages consist not only in
brutality, cruelty, starvation and murder, but
in false Imprisonment, robbery of orphan
children, and what is worse than death, both
public and private hospitals established by
public taxes, or supported by private charity
have been converted into brothels to crafty
the lusts of the scoundrels in charge. Wives
and mothers and young girls have been
again and again, debauched, while with nc
will to resist the fends who use afiiction ano
misfortune to crafty passion. These are
the hells of society, and because such hells
exist, and often the greater the air Of respec'
liability, the more damning the corruption
within, people are losing confidence in the
very name of charity. For the sake of al
concerned let there be an open, thorough
broad daylight investigation in Minnesota
Year: 1878

In hard times like these, there is no wis
dom in pressing debtors to the wall There
should be no pity for a debtor who can
pay and will not; but very much for one who
would If he could, but cannot. The truth is
that when men who are mutually debtors and
creditors, cannot meet their sever
al obligations. they should help
each other by reciprocal forbear-
ance. And the reason of this is obvious
enough to any person of common sense.
They are all in one boat and their common
| interest is to keep the boat afoat, until it
can tide over the shoals or avoid the break
ers. He, therefore, who, in such situation,
would beach the boat, or make hole in its
bottom. whereby he will drown himself and
all the rest of the crew, is a base, ,unmitigated
ass. And there are plenty of such fools
everywhere. They are SO eager to save
themselves from shipwreck that they ship
wreck themselves and everybody else, where
as little considerate patience would bring
the vessel and its whole crew and cargo
safely and soundly into port.


But as creditors. just now, are not wise,
nor humane, nor even smart enough to
secure their claims by postponing them





until their honest debtors can pay them
without failure, would it not be just and
expedient for the State Legislature to enact
| stay-law? This was done a few years ago
when the times were not nearly so hard as
they are now, and that legislation worked
most benc6cially for all concerned. If a
creditor, in such state of affairs as now ex-
lists, will not voluntarily give his debtor "a
necessary indulgence in order to save his
business, why shall not the State compel him
to do SO, for the general welfare, as well as
his own? The foolish rigor of one creditor
may not only crush single debtor, but that
crushing may involve the failure of score or
more of reputable firms who, if allowed time,
would eventually meet all their obligations
and continue in business. What is the use
! of such insane persecution? It is the folly
OF the fool who s'killed the goose that laid
the golden egg,. and if there is power in the
commonwealth to restrain it, that power
should be exercised just now, and exercised
| most liberally
Year: 1878

accuse the Southern man Of violating conf
dencs, pledges, and many other things, from
which recognition Of square bargain is
necessarily inferable, and insist that they in.
cur the danger of exasperating the President.
Let malevolent Democrat only hint that
there was bargain resulting in the cheating
OF the popular vote out of its choice of the
PRESIDENT, what grand chorus of indigna-
ton at once swells the tide of Republican
clamor. oh, these gems of political purity
and consistency!


But more seriously. do not think Presi-
dent Hays will dare interfere with the
course of the Louisiana prosecutions, how
ever strongly he may wish to do 50;
nor Will the supreme court of the
United States dare prostitute its functions to
SO base an outrage upon the rights of clearly
reserved State sovereignty. No man of COM
mon sense, and still less lawyer, can be
honest IN claiming any such right for the
federal government. Neither can the Gov
ernor OF Louisiana interrupt the course of
procedure within the province of the judic-
| lary, no more than may private citizen.
There IS certainly no danger that President
hayes will risk such step however strongly
ne may sympathize with the victims now
squ1rmlng in the tolls they woye for others.


My opinion also is that the President will
not veto the act remonetizing silver coin


Whatever his personal preference may be-
his prudence would forbid SO gross an out
rage against clear and we'll defined express
sion Of the will of the people on that sub
ject. N. T. HAusER.
MINNEAPOLIS Feb %
Year: 1878

at Least He PTetends He as. BIT He 4lp-


pears to be q Fraud.


Mankato Review Feb. 10.


In our last issue we gave an account of
the doings at Winnebago Agency, of man
purporting to be nephew of Thurlow
Weed of New York, but who is one of the
most plausible impostors that ever visited
this section of the country. After his real
character is known, he became notified to
leave the agency, and not relishing the man
ner in which this intelligence was conveyed
to him, he took his departure afoot, coming
in this direction. A gentleman at the
Agency who had loaned various articles of
clothing to Weed. and which the latter for
gotto leave behind overlook him on the
road, and to him Weed confessed that he
was an impostor, and thst he had been ply
ing his vocation for ten or twelve years. He
begged so pitifully that he was permitted to
depart.


We next heard of him on Monday evening
last, when Mr.. S. @. Larkin overlook him
on the public road leading to Decoria. To
this gentleman he represented that his name
was Wick. Mr.. Larkin kept him over night,
and next day he went to Mr.. Hanna's farm,
about whom he probably had made some
revious inquiries, representing that his name
was Hanna, that he was relative, and was
just returning to New York from visit to
Redwood Falls, where he had gone to pur-
chase some land for an uncle living in New
York. He represented that his uncle was
preparing genealogical tree of the Hanna
family, had heard of the Minnesota Hannas,
and had particularly charged him to visit
them and procure all information necessary
to perfect that much desired family record.
He talked with much familiarity about the
Hanna family residing in Catskiu, New
York, and with an assurance that for time
at least, gained the confidence and attention
of his host. He was still at Mr.. Hanna's on
Thursday, when Mr.. Hanna was in this city
and learned the mans true character. He
has probably left there. and we shall not be
surprised to soon learn that he is enjoying
the hospitality of some other family in Min
nesota, as an eastern relative visiting them
for the first time.


The fellow is small in stature, dark COM
| plexioned, wears long black hair, black
mustache. and has the appearance of man
travelling for his health. He is very gentle
manly appearing man, fluent of speech and
very plausible address.


He is not a person who would be classed
as sharp or shrewd, but his apparent in
nocence and inohensiveness rather disarms
suspicion and more readily enlists sympathy
and confidence. This led many to suppose
that the nam is really laboring under a
species of idiocracy incident to the impaired
| condition to his health.
Year: 1878




At the Preston police court, John James
Coupe, an attendant at the county asylum,
Nottingham, was charged with melting an
inmate named Jackson to murder two other
attendants, named Bailey and Kenyon. with
the ultimate object of committing larceny
From the evidence of Superintendent Webb,
it appeared that the prisoner incited the lun-
attic to secrete himself in certain part of
the grounds at certain hour of the night,
during which the attendants passed through,
and with short, sharp lance, with which he
supplied him, to murder them, SO that he
could the more easily get to certain boxes of
theirs. take out the contents. and give them
to him (the prisoner). The lunatic was then
to make his escape and 60 to London and
write thence to the prisoner to say how he
was getting on.


In the meantime the inmate gave infor-
nation to DR.. Holland, the Governor of the
asylum. who instructed him to meet the
prisoner according to arrangement, and who
sent number of persons to the place to
render any assistance that might be required.
On Monday night last, at the hour agreed
upon, the inmate secreted himself with his
weapon, and was siezed by the persons set to
watch just before the attendants were to
pass. The prisoner was subsequently ap-
pretended, when he pleaded guilty to the in
tended robbery, but altogether denied the at
tempt to murder the attendants by melting
the inmate to commit the deed.


After offering this statement, a remand
until Saturday was asked for, and the pris-
oner solicitor did not object, though he
hoped to show that the whole charge was a
fabrication. Supposing, however, what we
do not, of course, assume, that itshould turn
out to be well founded, it would show that
murder, considered as fine art, has at
tanned development unsuspected by De
Quincy.
Year: 1878

IT was evident that amid all the excite
ment on Thursday last, relative to the school
text book bill, one of the advocates of the
Merrill-Appleton law was especially in
earnest. He was so enthusiastic in his adj
vocacy of the fifteen year monopoly, that the
Speaker once or twice was obliged to curb
him, and he saw imaginary chips on the
shoulders of all who disagreed with him. and
sought to knock them off. This enthusiasm
has since been partially explained by the dis
covery in the honorable members desk of a
half-flled bottle of whisky. We understand
that an investigation will be called for, and
as it is in direct violation of law to bring
liquor into the capitol, serious results may
follow.
Year: 1878

In the heyday of Barnum one of the chief
attractions of the great show was the
Happy Family" It was composed of ami
mails and birds, domestic and wild, of all
colors and kinds, but dwelling together in
peace and unity. There were monkeys and
balloons, cats and dogs, and variety
of the feathered tribe, all constituting one
peaceful family. This tranquility was very
deceitful; it was not genuine. The secret
was in the iron rod of the master. By
hunger and thrashing the hostile instincts
were kept i'll subsection. In the absence of
the master, this apparently peaceful party
would sometimes break out into open war,
and an animal pandemonium would ensue.


The Republican party under the slavery of
discipline, and the courage of the majority
have, hitherto in Minnesota, hating each
other, managed to present happy exterior,
to outsiders The disguise, we are happy to
say, is about being torn off, and we have the
instincts Of the animal in all their natural
ferocity. Impeachments and bribery are
the orders of the day in the Republican
Legislature, and down in the
Southern part of the State it
appears Republican rings have had things all
their own way for many years. So it seems
that Republican counties have .:rings," and
that Ramsey county is not alone in this re-
gard, as Republicans have so often charged.
Go on, gentlemen, let us have the whole
truth. It will be more peaceful, at least. to
tell it now than two years fence, when the
Democratic party will most assuredly relieve
you of the bnrden of State government.
Year: 1878

New York Democrats may therefore spare
themselves in regard to Mr.. Tilden's future
The South has given fair notice that it will
not tolerate any attempt to reinyest him with
political existence, and as in this respect the
West shares the Southern purpose we may
not suppose that the Eastern leaders of the
party whom it is proposed to drive into the
background will succumb without struggle.
Mr.. Belmont's reply to Mr.. Hendricks would
be decisive in his favor if the party generally
retained capacity for dealing intelligently,
and willingness to deal honestly, with finan-
cial iss11e
Year: 1878

ANY law which on the face of it proposes
to save money for the people, while at the
same time its projectors refuse to let the
people vote upon it, can be set down as a
fraud. That is the proper name for the
Appleton Merrill bill. Its friends are fight
ing desperately to prevent the people hay
ing a voice in the matter.
Year: 1878

II Judge Page escapes impeachment it
will be owing to the assaults upon him by
the Pioneer-Pycss. That paper is so thor
oughly unpopular that its advocacy of man
damages him and its opposition helps him.
If the anti-Page men wish to secure the trial
of the Judge they had better see that this
superserviceable newspaper is rebuked and
nallOcl,ed
Year: 1878

on tie YFUcE.


From the Chicago Times.


Below is a tabulated list of the horses
which entered upon the trotting season with
out any record, that is as s'green horses"
and ended it by dropping into the large and
ever increasing army of equines, who have
demonstrated their ability to go ''thirty
clip" for mile. It will be seen by peru
sal of the list that during last season no less
than fifty four animals which, at the begin
ming of the campaign, were eligible in any any
class are forced, in order to win their races,
to trot anywhere from 2:19I to 2:3O. In no
other season has such wholesale slashing
of the records been accomplished:
Year: 1878

TIE GLOBE will be furnished every day in the
week to city subscribers at IS cents per month 80
per year.


BY mail the SUNDAY GLOBE will be one dollar per
year in addition to the rate given above for mail
uhacriberB.
Year: 1878

During the past year highway robbery has become alarmimglv f e. quert, and the peace and prope ty Of the private citizen greatly en- dang"red. More security of prop erty and person while passing over the public highways demands the careful consideration of our law makers and courts of jus ice. Next winter we shall ask to have law passed making highway robbery q crime punishable by death, and shall further urge the passage of a lav giving tie executive or some other officer unlimited monetary power in experiencing robbers.
Year: 1878

A friend has shown Us a copy oF the Yuma Sentinel. il which we q e accused of stealing one of its bril- liant clippings. The article in qucs- tlOn was translated for this paper from the Las Dos RcpYJljcas, where the paper in question ob- tained its article, the only difference being that we gave proper credit while they did not. As that sheet does not exchange with the HERALD. and we are positive we have not subscribed for it, only on rIre occa- sions we see the thing.
Year: 1878

We have sometimes had no little
difficultry producing seed corn that
would germinate. Some seasons the
corn is not sufficiently ripened before
tine frost. On this subject the Ciucin-
natl Grange Bulletin tells why these
failures occur, and adds few season
able hints on the saving to tomato
seeds.


The perfecting of seed is the whole
end and aim of all annual plants; the
whole energies of the plant, from
termination of the seed down to the
Frost that kills the plant and stops the
flow of sap. are absolutely required to
make perfect seed.


The immature sap of young plant
never could produce q mature seed
it requires all the whole volume from
infancy to maturity, the weak and the
strong life blood OF the plant, to give
the seed its full power of transmission.
Especially Is it necessary that the last
remaining flow of sap from the stalk,
nature by age, the season and the ap-
proach of winter, should enter the
seed. Hence to deprive seed of this
final act is to weaken it; it may have
vitality enough without it to grow and
produce other seed, hut it is itself i'm
mature, and must produce immature
seed.


To gather corn In the glaze state,
and hang 1t up In the shade, Is to de-
privs It of all the mature sap of the
plant, aud also the ripening influence
of the sun.


Nature never ripens seed in that
manner. She gives it every chance,
every influence, every particle Of nour-
ishment from the suns rays, the nights
dews, and the perfecting influence of
the waning season. This much for
corn especially, but also for all others.
Year: 1878

One of the most remarkable evidences
that fishes possess reasoning power is
related to US by reliable gentleman,
which we hasten. to lay before our read
ers. Our informant has on.his grounds
an artificial trout pond, which contains
at least 5000 spotted beauties, weighing
from half to two pounds each. The
gentleman has little daughter, five
years of age, who may well be called the
queen of the speckled beauties This
little miss has succeeded in training the
fish, so that she can go to the pond,
and with a handful of crumbs feed them
from her chubby fat hands. The fish
have learned to jump up out ofthe water
and snatch a worm from her fingers.
They seem exceedingly fond of her, in
Gct,;hey are said tc perfectly adore their
little queen. On Thursday last the little
one was standing near the edge Of the
pond, where the water was quite deep.
While reaching over to drop a few
crumbs to her subjects she suddenly lost
her balance, and pitched headlong into
the water. She says that she "went way
down." when she felt something under
meath her, and she quickly rose to the
surface, where she put her little lungs to
their utmost test and called Justly for
help. Her cries quickly attracted her
parents, and they were Mortified at see
ing the little girl floating upon the sur
face of the pond. The father rushed
quickly to the waters edge and reached
out for his treasure, and as he raised her
from the water a perfect solid mass of
trout were found beneath her. These
faithful subjects of the little queen, as
she fell, quickly gathered beneath her,
and thus showed their love for their
mistress by bearing up her body until
aid arrived, thus preventing her from
meeting a. .watery grave, which she would
have otherwise done. Parents who haye
little ones can imagine the parents love
for these trout, when they remember
that their sagacity saved the life of their
little daughter.-WhitehaU Times.
Year: 1878

Idreamed pleasant dream of Death,
As lady fair and bright,
Who came to my bedside suddenly


In the stiffness Of the night.
Art thou afraid of me?" she said,


In tones so sweet and low
That knew she spoke as kindly friend,
And not as q vengeful foe;
And answered cheerfully, and smiled,
mo, my beloved; mol
"why should Ifear7 Thou cans't not CEN
An hour before thy time.
II It's thine hour, twill be thine hour,
Appointed and sublime.
I should have lived my life in vain,


Nor seen where all things tend,
If I'd not surely known and felt


That thou wouldst be my friend.
And that beginning were but loss


Unless for the blessed end.
Come to me, then, o, kindly DeathI
Ifear thee not at ALL
The immortal mind can never be
The mortal body's thrall.
see thee stretch thy radiant hand
To open wide the door
Through which my spirit, glad to pass,
Shall surge, and spring, and soar,
And learn to learn, and know to know,
EveHand evermoreI
Dear mother! on thy face Hook,
And feel myself a child,
And know thou'lt purify my soul
From all that hath defiled.
I've noregrets to leave a world


Whose doleful paths I've trod;
Come when thou wilt; I'm well content
To rest in the quiet sod,
And go with thee to the Spirit-land.
To my Father and my GodP'
Year: 1878

Tomato seeds require a different
management, because they are more
tender. In this case leave the earliest,
finest. smoothest, largest fruit on the
vines till slight frost admoni.hes us
of winters approach. Then gather
them, lay them on a board in the sun
duriog the day, but in the house at
night, for three or four days; then cut
the tomato in half across the stem way
scoop out the core, seeds and all,
throw them into a bucket till they
sour and furment, wash out the seeds,
dry perfectly in the sun, not in the
oven, and put in dry place.
Year: 1878

down by the constitution Of competing
lines. This has led many influential
men who had before set their faces like
fiints against the proposition for Govern
ment to guarantee the payment Of the
5 per cent interest on the construction
bonds of the Texas Pacific road to 3
reconsideration of the premises on which
they founded their opposition; and the
benefits which they seem confident as
certain to accrue from the opening up of
the rich country along the line of the
proposed road and the branches whose
construction would inevitably follow that
of the trunk line, seems to have con


verted into warmest advocates many of
those as sturdily opposed to the enter
prise at the last session. With the in
gratitude of Huntington and his fellows
still fresh before the public and with the
efforts they have made to eyade their
obligations still fresh in mind, any com


pany seeking Government aid or coun-
tenance will certainly be required to
guarantee its exemption from possible
loss and from any of the troubles and
annoyances it has experienced at the
hands of those who have grown enor


mously rich on its bounty and insolent
instead of grateful for its indulgencies.
But opposition to the countenance asked
by the Texas Pacific has been based
chiefly by the bad faith exhibited by
Huntington and Company rather than
from any danger of loss in the limited
endorsement requested; and it now looks
as if this might be forgotten in the desire
to punish their inordinate greed and to
relieve the commerce and business in
terests OF a whole continent laying at
their mercy and within their power to
paralyze, till second road to the Pacific
shall have been built and equipped.


Very few save the bitterest personal
enimies and most unscrupulous parti
zans will sympathize with the animus
just now exhibited towards Ex-Governor
Shepherd of this District, by few news
papers published here and elsewhere, lest
he should be awarded the credit he has
earned in the leading part he has
taken with few otherWashingtonians.in
loading down to her guards the steamer
Chambers with necessaries and delica
cies for the fever sufferers, and dispatch
ing her on her errand of mercy down
the Mississippi from st Louis. Every
old scandal ever heard of in his connec-
ton with the Board of Public Works
stands chance of being dug up by these
ghauls. But there are few men better
fitted by executive capacity to organize
the means of relief needed in this terri
bic emergency than Mr. Shepherd; and
he has the confidence of this whole com
munity with few exceptions, in his
praiseworthy efforts to rob the pestilence
of some ofits terrors. MAXWELL