Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-12
GLOBELETS,

At Fort Worth 100, 600 buffalo skins We're re-
ceived last year.
7. J. Demers is to leave Frenchtown, Mon
tana. in March, with 1900 head of cattle for
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Barley is reported .'scarce at twenty-fve cents
a bushel' in Williamson county, Texas. At
that price it ought to be scarce.
Diphtheria is so prevalent and fatal in Ten
nessee that the State board of health has issued
circular upon its prevention and treatment.
The Ohio river line of bargcs and tow boats,
known as the Iron Line has been transferred
TO the 81. Louis and New Orleans grain trade.
The Chief Justice OF the United States re-
ceives $4,000 a year, and his associates $4,000.
They are probably the hardest worked Judges
in the country.
George Francis Train says Bryant, Peter
Cooper and Simon Cameron will die before the
end of the year, unless they jump on to his
psychological platform.
The men who were.elected to the Kentucky
Legislature by workingmen, advocate the cstab-
hshment of the whipping-post for poor men
who offend against the laws.
| The New Orleans Democrat refuses to publish
advertisements of the Louisiana lottery, and
charges that the concern buys the paper 10 send
1t out with lottery circulars enclosed.
| Farmers Institutes, (rneetings of farmers for
discussion of farm topics have been held i'll
Michigan and Illinois this season. and have
been interesting, and probably profitable.
John Carter, sailor, threw his mistress,
Mary Conkanon. from second story window
in New York the other day. She fell on Robert
Walker, receiving severe injuries and breaking
Walkers back.
Senator Barnum of Connecticut is given as
authority for the statement that Senator Win
DOM although he voted with Barnum against
the Matthews resolution. sa Ill he would vote for
the silver bill.
/ There is a family i'll Madison county, Fla, of
| remarkable stature. The father is seven feet
four; the mother is six feet eight; tho two sons
are each seven feet three; and the one daughter
is seven feet nine.
black and tan terrier of Springfield ILL.,.
regularly visits his master lager beer saloon.
from which he staggers home at night after
getting drunk that his master has to lift him
, over the curbstoncs. He is bloated like other
! drunkards.
From central New York comes a brief dis
I patch suggestive of frightful story of cruelty
starvation and death. The dispatch simply
tells of the finding of woman's skeleton
chained to rock on the inside of an unfrc-
quented cave.
The st. Louis steamboat pool, of the lower
Y river trade, which has for two years been u
. powerful combination, expires by limitation
y the LIST of April next when, it is predicted,
/ there viii be lively competition for the fast in
u creasing business.
y The Union National Bank of Chicago did not
:, loan $40, 600 to Ev-Gov. Kellogg of Louisiana to
pay returning board expenses and the cxpen-
ses of the visiting statesmen But it did
loan Kellogg that sum, eight months after the
returning board affair, OH good security.
T. A phenomenal storm of rain with thunder
, and lightning visited Peru, Dec. 3lst, and
. caused so much alarm among the people to
, make them believe the day of the last iudg-
y ment had arrived. Great numbers tiocked to
l. tee churches and prayed for deliverance.
d a Memphis business firm came to sudden
10 end recently. II. Fl. Hopper, member of
l. the firm, being at the store. leaned at his
desk, said his head hurt him, and died; and
half an hour after Thomas Duggan, Hopper S
partner, who at home sick, died there.
Cricket playing is to be prominent sport in
: the East this year. Eleyens from Australia,
- and England will visit this country and Il
&c Philadelphia eleven has accepted an invitation
y to Bermuda to play with club composed of
- British army and navy officers stationed there.
- The garden of the palace at Malta, has been
IF closed to the public, because warm hearted
ne little girl from the charity gchool, seeing a
pretty baby there gave it good, hearty kiss,
and that baby was the thirteen months old
IL, ~
burgh.
l, Sir Samuel Baker proposes, by suitable en-
r gineering works, to divert portion Of the Nile
lv food-water into the deserts, where it can de
r post its rich sediment in the sands and asc
I'd irrigatc them to transform them int
Id cotton tieFSs that would render England indie
L pendent of America
~ Mayor We'll, of Paducah, KY, having beer
arrested for disturbing the peace, and himsel
constituting the court to try snch offenders {
local paper trusts the court, if it finds itsel
guilty, Will remember Portals pleading tina
a. mercy SIS twice blessed-blcssing him tina
>, gives and him that takes
D The insurance department. of New York is ac
~ cused of receiving large of money from
w life insurance companies, either levied b,
ii. blackmail or accepted in bribery. Superin
E. tendent Smyth Is said to have received S75. 00
he or more from one company. A Legislative in
a vestigation of the charges is proposed.
&c lack. Chandler promised to pay the expense
of the visiting statement who went to New
Orleans to help the returning board count il
Hayes. So says the Hon. C. b. Farwell but h
/, adds that the Y. S. of Illinois paid their owl
= bills Mr.. Farwelrs heirs should take note o
&c the faith. Old lack. is rich and can be mad
a to pay.
fE The Louisville Cou1cy-JouraM proposes tina
* Alaska be used for penal colony and the re
- ceptacle of all criminals who are now placed il
L. State penitentiarics. They could there be sc
~ to work in forests and mines, making the colo
ii ny self-supporting, and relieving the State o
To the expense of maintaining criminals in expen
ra siye. establishments.
There's good time coming boys
Good time coming.
good time coming, boys,
Wait little longer.
ON The gold monops' have had their day:
The people now resume the sway
OF Dads dollar, BOYS. is on the way
d. Wait little longer.
er According to the Lexington (Ky.} Press, it i
as almost the universal wish of the white people
sr- of that section of the State that the whipping
u post should be re-established and the NOR