Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-18
GLOBELETS.

Keep away from Austin, Nevada. Oysters
cost l212 cents each there.
Inc hess opera company were almost as sue
| cessful' IN the drawing large audiences, at Kan
sas City at st. Paul.
Great britain and her colonies at the rate of
s5OOo0 day, have contributed over 100000
for relief of the famine districts of India:
RED flag and flap doodle is the way gold
tie summarized Senator Voorb ses speech. That
accounts for its exciting effect the gold bulls
| Slade, the spiri tualist, has been expelled
from Vienna, Austria, because he was unable to
describe his vocation satisfactorily to the po-
| lice.
| The majority of the United States Senate will
be Democratic after the 4th of March next, and
then the fraudulent Vice-President's partizan-
ship will be of less account than now.
| The amount of water pumped through ths
Chicago pipes last year was 1880, 600, 900 gall
Ions, an average of about three barrels day to
every human being in the city.
A blowing match had at Scratching
River, Manitoba, Christmas dav, and although
the weather was unfavorable, there being .
misty rain all day, the work was well done.
The Overseer of the Poor at Elizabeth, N. j.,
saw several of his dependents joining in the
late run on a savings bank of that city and
shut off their regular supplies from the city.
| Fitzpatrick is riding raid in Kansas under
| direction of lecture bureau The suffering
hansans would rather he had come at the head
| of his troopers for then they might have had
an excuse for shooting him
The smallest coin in circulation In California
| is
fact, as for instance when a poverty stricken
Californian lays down his last quarter for ten
cent dish and receives in exchange only dime
Patterson being sick and Sargent absent at
tending to his private business, if several Dem
ocrats not also away attending to their
private business. the United States Senate
would stand equally divided on party ques-
tions.
Carl Schurz pretends to be Republican il,
good standing, and yet asserts that he wants tt,
run bis department ON honest business rrihci=
pies. That's enough to prove that he Is as tho
true blue Republicans term him. an impracti-
cable theorist.
, The creditors to whom nine million dollars is
owing from the estate of the once great manu-
; featuring firm of A. & W. sprague & Co., OF
Rhode Island, are naturally uneasy, the estate
= having been IN the possession of an assignee
for about year, without receiving a cent.
} Rose alias Morton, alias Woodward who was
/, said to have been shot by Owen Geoghegan,
the notorious New York rough. in his ante
lnortem statement, professed that he was so
l drunk at the time that he could not tell who
shot him. That's enough to give Gcoghegan q
chance to shoot again.
TbaR i,}, ii, n
a gressmen would reduce their pay in proportion
8 to the shrinkage of values the past few years,
n the moral effect on the country would be meal
a culable. Would Ben. Butler, Nipple Mitchell
g Spencer and the rest of the bad lot resign, If
their pay reduced?
5 The tobacco lobby at Washington is laboring
= for reduction of the tax to twelve cents per
a pound. They hold that, although it is re-
q duction of one-half, on account of increased
n production the revenue from tobacco would not
s fall off more than twenty per cent, Leaving
G $22, 900, 0G0, which they argue is enough to
y be collected from one branch of industry.
In Bulgaria human jaw, if the teeth are
. regular, sound and white, is worth about g.
. The jaws are packed in crates holding each five
, hundred, and are sent to Paris where the teeth
7 are extracted. The buyers and shippers receive
v about fifty per tent The veracious chronicle
Il of passing events in which We find this item
is does not state the uses to which the teeth are
e put in Paris. That is left to the readers i'm
8. agination and credulity.
Ii The Eastern band of North Carolina Chero-
J KEGS know what it is to have a fraudulent Pres
= ldent. They elect their chief by ballot and
their present. acting chief, Llcyd h; We'cb,
), was counted in by conspiracy of white men
7 and Indians of other bands. Their agent re-
: ported the facts to the Interior Department
4 but Zach Chandler, to 7, ruled that he had no
d right to go behind the returns. The papers
protests and atfidavits relating to the case were
} shelved in the Indian Bureau, and subsequent
ly stolen or destroyed, and the one thousand
e indians of the band continue under chief not
y of their choice.
Humbert, the new King of Italy, is person.
6 ally popular, methodicaI, prudent in his
money affairs, processes liberal principles and
abhors subsection to church rule But he has
a most difficult task before him. for while the
people of Italy too poor to bear increased
G taxation the enormous debt of the kingdom is
# yearly increasing; and added to which is the
j. unpleasant fact that his ministry is weak ard
It hampered by extravagant promises to the par
n l1amentary majority. In financial matters at
}. least the former States of the Church were
e better off under the rule of the Pope.
h acknowledgement Jewell is being scri
d ously smirched by the investigations into his
e late connection with the ruined Charter Oak
n Insurance Company. Furber, the wrecker
c publishes that Jewell IS first offer to him was
- to give him 10,000 for his stock and divide
a equally with him what could be made out of
y the wreck. Another of the discredtablc facts
, expoaed is, that Mrs. ex-Secretary Belknap had
y policy of $4,000 assigned to her by some
pesson IN Kentucky, it is suspected for services
n IN Washington, and was paid every cent of it.
c "hlle poor women having claims on the COM
! pany were paid net more than sixty cents on
y the dollar
e In 1878 Germany gave notice that her law of
1871 demonetizing silver would be put in force
. and at once there was a demand for gold to
a supply the place of over $500 900 600 in silver
e which was drawn from circulation as rapidly as
possible and placed on sale. The extra supply
OF gold required was far more than equal to the
f whole world S product Of year, and of course
gold was enhanced in relative value The ex
j ira silver thus thrown on the market was more
than equal to two years product of all the sill
yer mines of the world, and of course silver de-
= clined in relative value If the United States
o remonetizes silver Germany will soon be COM
PEELED to or lose her place in the worlds com
: merce and that, with the increased need of
coin money, will at least bring silver and gold
: to about the old rate of l to 49,
!. If these swarming Investigations are neces-
sary," says the New York Hewld, mo Presi-