Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-17
GLOBELETs.

are not counted IN this analysis.
GLOBELETs.
Governor Mcclellan now
Victor Emanuel is to be buried to-day.
dreenbacks are worth now about SO per
cent. in gold.
Tho planet Venus was at its brightest for the
year last night.
The United states life saving service rescued
during 1877 1851 lives and 81, 7l3,647 worth Of
property.
The book containing the applications for
space in the American section of the Paris OK
position ia closed.
1t is estimated that there are in the United
States 100000 opium eaters who consume
G,l25,9SS grains daily.
Tho Eastern money lenders's threat against
the West was we'll answered in Senator Yoor-
hees' peroration yesterday.
Mr.. Woods proposed tariff bill provides for
only 500 dutiable classes Of goods, in place Of
over 1,600 now on the tariff list.
The silver dollar was obsolete in 1879 az a
legal tender, say the oddities. Why then was
it undertaken to abolish an obsolete thing?
The suspended Chicago pawnbroker paid
two per cent. month on his borrowed capital.
In the long run that beat his cent per cent.
business.
The man who answers questions for the Gin
oinnati Commercial says marriage ought not
to be postponed On account Of any weather
short of an earthquakes.
The total amount Of grain in store at Chica-
go last Monday was 2,ss8, 200 bushels. At the
corresponding time Of last year the amount in
store there was z. 100, 900 bushels.
Mexican silver dollars, which were equally
legal tender with the United States silver dol
are now worth about So per cent. in gold.
Sixteen hundred persona passed through
Chattanooga in December en- s'oats to Texas.
There is large and increasing migration from
Alabama and North Carolina to the Lone Star
State.
He'll was the principle subject of discourse
in Now York churches Sunday. To Christians
it ought not to matter much whether there is q
hell or not. Let the sinners agitate them
selves over that question.
The needy shoemakers Of lynn, Mass, re-
quested assistance in money and provisions
before they had been one day on their strike.
The needy, however are but small proportion
Of the three thousand who have quit work.
The first annual regatta of the Mississippi
at Peoria, III, The citizens have already pledg
ed enough money to cover expenses, and the
arrangements it is promised will be on m ex-
tensive scale.
Mackey, the American who gave a grand
dinner to Grant in Paris, is accused Of medi-
tating the purchase of the title Of Count. If
so. his countrymen will give him several titles
without charge, They will count him a. snob
fool, saphead, ETC.
jeff. Davis says that Gen. Harvey in youth
was physically the finest man he ever saw
tall, straight, muscular, broad-shouldered,
gaunt-waiated, and able to run faster than al
most any Indian. He once won race with a
dog and was wonderful hunter and boat
man."
Blaine's highest vote in the Cincinnati con-
vention was on tho last ballot when the vote
stood Blaine SOL, Hayes s8A, Bristow 81. 1t
was narrow escape, and Blaine must feel hap
Ply when he thinks he did escape the chance
and the temptation Of becoming fraudulent
President.
If we cannot fatten on human gore in the
indirect way Of having our markets enlarged
and selling prices increased by a general
European war, We can console ourselves with
the charitable reflection that England and Ger
many are as badly afflicted as is our country,
with hard times.
The leading advocates of silver rsmonetizs-
ton do not agree with the goldites that the
silver bill lost votes during the recess. They
claim, instead, that votes have been gained for
the silver bill in Congress by members discov-
ering during their holiday visits that there is
no Escape from the demand Of the people for
silver.
President Dias Of Mexico says the United
States government exacts, as condition Of
recognition, pledge that forced loans shall not
be imposed upon American citizens in that
country. OF what use is it to exact such .
pledge? The next revolutionary leader who
seizes the Office now filed by Diaz would not be
bound by the promise.
Senator Christiancy, it is reported, refuses to
sign the report proposed by Senator Angus
Cameron, Of Wisconsin, for the committee
which visited South Carolina last fall. The
report was written by James Redpath. the nc
torious bloody shirt correspondent, and proba-
bly, contains more fights Of q lying imagina-
ton than Mr. Christiancy can endorse.
Unless the Senate and House at Warrington
adopt some measures to secure q better attend
ance Of their members and full votes on all
questions Of importance, it viii be in order for
the leading newspapers of the country to apply
corrective, by publishing each morning a list
of the absent OF not voting Senators and Repre-
sentatives, with the causes Of absence, when
known. Some of the honorable gentlemen
would be recorded as absent attending to
private business some as sick, some IS sham-
ming, and some as lodging. Those who have
no good excuse for non-attsndancs or neglect
of duties would thus soon be brought to feel
the force Of public opinion.