Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-22
GLOBELETs.

AAAS
The Introduction of the Moffet punch system
o, taxing liquor drinking is advocated by about
al the newspapers of Louisiana.
oaPt. a. drovenor, vice consul has charge of
VIC ohl.ea states consular business at Winni-
peg onrlng the absence of Consul Taylor
.. ". dauit, Assistant General Manager of
the Chicago, Milwaukee 4 st. Paul RAILWAYS il
rapidly recovering from his late dangerous i'll.
ness.
/ Loss Angeles, Cal, is blessed with a stock
dealer who speaks English. French. Spanish,
| German, Italian, Hindu, and one or two Indian
dialects.
man in keokuk the other day mad. he
Godlva of himself by running through the
streets stark naked. James Jams was what
allied him.
Farmers Institutes are the popular thing in
| Michigan. They are held for the discussion of
practical topics and exchange of ideas relating
to farm work.
James B. Martin, the wheat operator of Mil
waukee, who died a few days ago. bought and
shipped over 20,000,O00 bushels of wheat in
1873 and 1874.
/ Jacob Gallagher, an ex-champion among the
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Kansas City, Mo-, has fallen heir TO large for
tune in Ireland.
The temperance wave has reached Fort Bu-
ford D. T., on the Upper Missouri, and re-
suited in the organization, among the soldiers,
OF temperance society numbering sixty
members.
The largest numbering establishment in the
Mississippi Valley, according to the reported
products of last year, is that of Knapp, Stout
Co. at Menomonie, Wis, which cut nearly
100000 feet of lumber and over % 600 600
feet of shingles.
The Rev. Father Faber, a widely known,
writer on mystic theology shortly before his
death in 1868. wrote; THE devils worst and
most fatal preparation for the coming of Anti
christ is the weakening of mems belief in eter-
} nal punishment
The Chicago Milwaukee 4 st. Paul railway
| has nearly completed fine iron bridge over
the Wisconsin river at Kilbourn City, Wis.
The main span is four hundred and fifty feet
IN length, and there two shorter ones Of
about sevcnty-fve feet each.
MIR. Sturgeon gave curious lecture IN Lon
don the other evening called Sermons in
Candies In the course of it he exhibited TO
his audience for purposes of illustration old
candle-bo1, rush light, dirty old lantern,
and candle lit at both ends
George Washington knew nothing about
steamboats,, railroads, telegraph lines tele-
phones, photographs, sewing machines, evolu-
tlon laughing gas, artificial teeth, bonanza
;. mines, Old Probs, or international Expositions
! In fact George lived good while ago.
4 1t is now generally understood that Chief
Joseph and his band of Nez Perces will not be
returned to Idaho, but will be sent to a reser-
vation in the Indian territory and treated much
IN the same manner the Modocs who were
domiciled in that locality few years ago.
: An Iowa dentist recently extracted large
tooth, which found to have ulcer SAGE at
5 the end of each root. These were removed, the
tooth was cleaned and plugged with gold, and
then replaced in its old socket, where, thus far,
d it remains, and is becoming more fixed each
: day.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams. Jr., says that
. the admission papers to Harvard College are
= made up of tricks, and that the standard has
], now been raised high that it is quite
above the heads of the professors, and the
whole aim of the institution seems to be to turn
g out race of pedagogues.
The failures in business in the United States
# during 1877 numbered S,S72, being 200 less
# than IN 1876 The total liabilities in the fail
ures of 1877 were $780, 669, 900, barely half a
y million less than in 1876. The total number of
business houses in the country in 1877 was
o 652. COG, SO that the failures were something
less than one in 73.
1ulo H.
San Elizario mob, was in the first riot which
n occurred on account of his claiming the III
e Paso salt lakes saved from being killed by a
e heroic Catholic priest Father Bourgode who
put his arms around Howard and walked him
y safely through the mob, saying to them that il
they shot Howard they must also shoot him.
The first of Christian nuns whose name is re-
n corded was st, Marcellina, who received the
is veil from Pope Liberius. in the Church of st
Peter at Rome on Christmas day, 352. But
Houses of Virgins existed in the third cen
q tury, and from the days of the apostles there
have always been women who devoted them
g selves to chastity, poverty and the service OF
/ their neighbor.
Matilda Fisher. : widow who came to Chica.
G go year ago with $4,000, but formed bad
peared in the Municipal court of that CITY Fri
day last to accuse of her bad acqu;aintan-
. ces with stealing $500, the last of her $50 0OO
: and defrauding her of her jewelry and furni-
- ture. She has heen systematically robbed OF
everything she had.
l. Elizabeth Denny, aged 81 years, who died in
Pittsburgh on the 18th inst, was a daughter OF
Gen. William q Hara, trusted friend of Gen
n Washington, who appointed him quartermastel
3 OF the United States army, and was the wife OF
/ Harmer Denny, for several years congressman
: from that district She was the Oldest native
OF Pittsburg, and owned two thousand
! acres of land in the city. Her father started
= = the first glass factory there.
II there were soldiers Of the late war or
either side in the late fight between moon
T. sinners and revenue posse in Wayne county
KY, the affair must have reminded them of the
:. war time. Twenty-Five of the moonshiners
- opened rapid fire from an ambush upon the
posse of thirty. Revenue Btore-keeper Logan
as he was shot, ordered the posse to dis1nount
% and sail in, which they did SO effecsually
d that the moonshiners fed in every direction
$, leaving one of their number dead and anothe
IS badly wounded.
The river improvement committee appointed
by the st. Paul convention asks Congress fo
an appropriation of 80, DOC. 000 to be distrib
N uted in the following proportions: $3.50. 00(
81 above the Des Moines rapids: $4,000 bctwee,
~ the Des Moines rapids and the mouth of tn.
Is Illinois river: 55G0,Go0 between the mouth oi
lie the Illinois river and Cairo, and $500 0G0 he
!, tween Cairo and New Orleans-the appropria
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