Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-07
GLOBELETS.

Inc governor OF California is paid $9, 600 a
year, Che highest salary Of any State Governor.
Silver has been. discovered in Maine. It will
shortly be discovered in every State of the
Union in the shape of dollars
By friendly agreement of all concerned, the
reading of the Bible has been dispensed with
IN the public schools Of Naugatucls, Conn
The Massachusetts, detectives, who told of
their experiences among tramps, according to
the Springfield Republican, told prodigious
lie.
Frank H. King, husband Of Julia Rive-Kinp
has buried the slanderous reports of his being
bigamist and wise deserter, under a mountain
of affidavits.
The managers of Sing Sing prison report
profits of last month amounting to SIG. 600
which moves the New York Herald to remark
1t is satisfaction to know business is good
somewhere
The government has second mortgage lien
on the Kansas Pacific railroad for about S11 :
OOO, OOO and is in danger Of losing it by a fore
closure of the first mortgage.
The pipe system of transportation is to be
applied in Louisiana by laying pipes from the
different sugar plantations through which to
pump syrup to control factories.
practical young woman of Wisconsinde
cllned an offer of marriage from an impecuni-
GUS youth on the ground that her father was
not Athletic support a larger family.
The movement for the union of the provinces
OF New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince
Edward Island, which has been some time in
progress, is likely soon to succeed.
Mr.. Beecher, as the Chaplain of a New York
regiment, will be required to do nothing unbe-
coming disciple of peace. In other words he
will shoot off nothing but his mouth.
Senator Lamar and jefferson DAVIS are hack
ing Minor, Mississippi negro and graduate
OF Oberlin against couple of white appli-
cants for the presidency of Texas college.
London is troubled about the sssta;n Of
blood on Stanley, the African explorer. If #
wasn't for the ruddy color the ministry is piv-
ing to English prospects, London would be
ready to have Stanley punished for defending
the lives of himself and party against the Afri-
can savages.
The Chicago Tribune says Of the woman who
was acquitted on the charge of murder in kill
ing constable whoinvaded her house at the in
stance OF prosecuting creditor: s'Miss Mckee
has every reason to be gratifed. She escaped a
reprlmand for not shooting the other constables
who accompanied McElligott.'
At Cincinnati on the 4th inst, Miss Salle
Porter, aged ID, while in the delireum of =
fever, escaped from her room and house short
~ after midnight, wandered acouple of squares
barefooted, clad only in night dress. and
died. She was not missed until three. when
search was instituted and her body found.
Five-frank pieces circulate freely in Paris
and are sought after in the manufacturing dis.
tricts of France, and gold is not at premium
there, though the Bank of France holds zoo. OOO..
OOOf. in silver. So say Messrs Merquerdt
Andre d Co., bankers at Paris, under date Of
Jan. II, to Messrs. Gilmore & Co., bankers a,
Cincinnati.
The Danube and its tributaries drain an area
OF 3OO,OOO square miles. The main river is
l,o20 miles long, but its sources are in direct
line from its mouths only 1000 miles. At one
point, opposite the small village of Gicheriztha
the Danube is compressed by mountains (Which
rise almost sheer 5000 feet above the river
from the width of mile to about $50 wards
and, as far as can be ascertained from the yio
lence of the current, from 800 to 1000 fathoms
deep.
The counterpart Of Oakes-Ames' memoran.
dum-book is the shorthand note book in which
Woodruff the former Republican clerk of the
South Carolina Senate kept full record of every
criminal transaction in which he was engaged
which he turned over to the legislative investi.
eating committee, and which furnished the
evidence on which the negro Congressman
Sma}S was convicted and on which Cardozo is
held IN imprisonment, Woodruff and rs
friend JONES' clerk of the House. were the pro
pr1etors and representatives Of the Republic
can printing company, for which lavish appro-
prlations We're made and which fourished by
wholesale bribery of the Republican legisla-
tors and executive officers.